Figure 1 – Orchid Vine Shadow, Boston, MA. (c) DE Wolf 2019.

You go to an art museum to look at the art – right? Well sometimes. During my recent trip to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts I came across this beautifully twisted orchid vine in the reception area. I was really taken by the shadow that it cast on the wall, and by moving and positioning the camera just right I was able to achieve the spectacles shown in Figure 1. I want to emphasize one point. The background is not merely blank white. It has the texture of the wall, and this texture gives added dimension to an otherwise flat image. I am told that it if you don’t know what it is, it looks like a drawing, perhaps sketched by Picasso with great and characteristic fluidity.