Paint Swirls

Amazingly, this is an an image of a plain old can of paint captured after stirring like mad to get the colour to mix properly.  It was quite old paint and had been sitting around for some time and I had a job to get the pigment to mix back in to a uniform colour when I suddenly realized what a great shot it might make and it did.

This has been  edited  to increase the saturation and I have played around to get it to display how I wanted and I really like the image as it reminds me of the swirls of life  and it can be a mirror of the  patterns of life. Hey, lets not get too deep here, just grab your camera and give it a go.  Even old encrusted paint can be a hot topic for your macro shots and if you look around you will find heaps of things discarded that will make stunning photographs.

Other great ideas:

Look for floating  oil on the top of water – or create your own

Try some marbling and photograph the results

Do some tie dyeing and use some of the finished samples for your photos

Mix up some paints on a palette and use this as a base to photograph

Slosh up some ingredients in the kitchen and photograph the results, like sauce, melted chocolate, soy sauce

Take amazing photographs

Golden Lichen on Rock

More shots from the ladder  Looking down on things sure can give you a new slant on things – check out what I spotted from above – I’ve walked past this golden mossy “sculpture” a stack of times but it looked different with the sunlight shining on it and the Bromeliad from above looked like a mini pond.  Ask Frogs – they love them !