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The “Nürnberger Bratwurst” is one of the culinary specialities in town. 3 of these sausages in a roll are sold in numerous stalls in the old town. Each has about the length of a middle finger and is not thicker than the key hole of the lock to the town’s medieval prison. While customers wait to be served, a homeless man has to collect enough change to be able to buy one.
I’ve always had this interesting glass ball that reacts to static energy, creating this cool effect. This image reminds me a little of an abstract painting with the various colors and blurred motion. Enjoy!
Playing with glass ball week! Well, that’s a first one for me. On the onset my thoughts were that gazing through and with a glass ball must be quite limiting. But then, I read about it, looked at a good number of photos and was finally surprised to realize that there are a multitude of possibilities to capture the world around us, without limitations or lack of creative adventures. An eye opener!
Glass Ball Play a la Pep Ventosa… kinda
Sunset at the Rogge Mountain Ranch
I went online and bought some 1″ glass balls and plexiglass. Built a little holder and had the idea of multiple images through several glass balls. Then I got the idea of floating glass balls. ‘Easy’ I said to myself, I’ll just clone out the shelf in photoshop. I see it done all the time on facebook. I would give myself a C- on this attempt. Please don’t look too close, this took me a long time with poor results.
Ich ging online und kaufte ein paar 1″ Glaskugeln und Plexiglas. Baute einen kleinen Halter und hatte die Idee von mehreren Bildern durch mehrere Glaskugeln. Dann kam mir die Idee von schwebenden Glaskugeln. ‘Einfach’ sagte ich mir, ich werde klonen Sie einfach das Regal in Photoshop aus. Ich sehe es die ganze Zeit auf Facebook. Ich würde mir bei diesem Versuch ein C- geben. Bitte nicht zu genau hinschauen, das hat lange gedauert, mit schlechten Ergebnissen.
Here’s my set up.
This assignment was a great invitation to play. I tried all kinds of approaches to photograph marbles. This image is my favorite.
This is my second favorite!
The Christmas market in the German town of Nuremberg is probably one of the most famous. There are historic records which show that the market might already have existed in 1628. However, not for the last two years…. for obvious reasons I had to resort to old photos to find glass balls (but maybe it is plastic…).
