kaleidoscope

Creative word:

A kaleidoscope - shattered bits of color moved and reflected to reveal a variety of endless patterns while held up to the light; a child's toy.  Derived from the Greek literally meaning to view beautiful forms.

While photographing in the Brooks Estate I was reunited with a style of photography I first discovered in Japan.  What's more interesting is that the weather conditions were the same: dark, rich timber soaked from recent rains and muted leaves of color.  Photographing leaves using very shallow depth of field and manual focus sprung to life the use of a kaleidoscope and that feeling of  a child excited in his own imagination.  Except here I was able to fix the image permanently and to control the bits of color through movement and focus of the camera. As a child your creativity and imagination are always in flux, present one moment and gone the next, as an artist one works to capture the imagination and to hold it up for others to see.  

Note: The creative word for me is a freeing word.  One can decide based on importance to the subject or self whether to know a word or not.  If it releases or explains creative action it is a "creative word".  To see my first mention of the term go to creative words blog post.