Figure 1 – Aqua, Boston, MA. (c) DE Wolf 2015.

Today I’m offering up Figure 1 as another IPhone experiment. I call this photograph “Aqua” for obvious reasons. But in this case aqua has the double meaning of both water and color. It is summer soothing. And I have to say that I remain  impressed by the IPhone,s ability to handle pretty extreme close-ups, just tap on the screen where you want the sharpest focus and voila!  As I’m looking at it on my computer screen the image is about two inches wide and the glass is pretty much actual size.  I had to darken out some distracting elements across the table, which I did with a combination of the burn, magic wand, and clone tools. I thought that the napkin in the upper right was going to annoy me.  But in actuality I find it balancing both in terms of color and shape. I think that the composition would be just too monotonous without it, I like all the rings of reflection and refraction, but I particularly like the distorted lensing of surrounding elements like the napkin in the glass.