This week’s photo challenge was to photograph “nothing”. This kind of caught me by surprise and made me think a lot about what I could possibly do. I did research to see what other people had done, but what they photographed did not seem like “nothing”. Every one of them had a person, a place, or object in them. I understand though that “nothing” means different things to other people. For me it means everything. I’m an optimist, and when I see what others see as nothing, I think of it as something more than that. I thought about doing one of me sitting in a quiet setting and showing that I was thinking about nothing in my normal surroundings, but I did not want to make it look like I thought of myself as “nothing”. So I decided to take a different approach to the challenge. I chose to photograph through a thick piece of glass window that was in my friend’s apartment. It was around 4:30 in the afternoon. I was not sure right away what I would come up with. I was looking for just an empty space that had some different textures flowing through it. I finally found a piece that had the reflection of a building in it. I thought for me this “nothing” meant seeing the world with an un-open mind. I also felt that it could mean you have a completely open mind, but you can’t figure out how to get there. I really think that the different lines, curves, and colors make this photo work. Whether or not this means “nothing”, is for the viewer to decide.
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