Nice piece like how the light is playing through it..

my sentiments entirely

Makes a beautiful abstract.

That is SO awesome Tara. I so like this shot. Well done :)

WONDERFUL!!!! just so very Tara! and extremely satisfying.

Light and refraction - photography: the art of capturing light. Very creative abstract, Clive

Your wonderfully artistic abstract brings to mind the cover of the December 1993 National Geographic magazine, "Glass, Capturing the Dance of Light". You've done it! Cool...:)

This is just the kind of photography I would love to do, if I had the time (and the talent...) Wonderful!

Superb capture! Very well seen. :)

But you have a way of making look like a kaleidoscope of colour! Well done Tara! Rob

Wonderful realization of the concept! Who needs a whole anything anyways? It is a complete work of art in itself, well done!

Excellent capture, Tara! Glass is amazing for what we can find within it

Tara takes us to the limit! Great job.

What was that song about 'Take It To the Limit?' Well, that's a pretty spectacular couple of square inches, Tara! Wonderful abstract, and lovely colors. What is it about glass that almost BEGS one to get close and play? All these insulators are constantly begging to be photographed... :-D

Oh Hun - you are the best... Wonderful abstract image! The light is breathtaking! Well seen and done!

good idea. A true abstract !

Very painterly light play

Excellent light and colours - I particularly like the littles bubbles that have formed in the glass! A wonderfully abstract piece Tara!

superbe travail!!

Light, texture, shape and shadow... it works for me!

Fantastic!

Nice oil painting. ..hee hee. I don't think that I EVER would have guessed.

What a beautiful image this makes, it has a fractal feel to it. I love the colouring.

Anybody can take a photo, of things that we see everyday but it is so cool when you take a shot, of something that we have all seen but don't recognize because you have only posted one square inch. Or shot something with the cover off, looking at the parts and pieces that we have never seen before. Never change, do what you do best - a little of this or a little of that - that is what makes the world go round. :>) Dana

Years before I even posted my first Renderosity photo, I hung out with a bunch of Russian-speaking Russians, Latvians, and Belorussians. They were painters and philosophers and pianists. One of the huge topics of discussion with that group was about looking at the relationships of things, especially in terms of paint strokes and colors: interrelationships generally perceived when you pay attention to...oh, say, a square inch of reality rather than all of reality. What strikes me about this piece, aside from its artistic brilliance is the fact that it's something extremely dynamic, extremely alive, and in many senses, bits and pieces of bits and pieces...and though they all make up an intriguing and beautiful whole, they're beautiful and intriguing in and of themselves. It points to the fact that a fragment of a picture is as interesting (and surprising) as a full picture...and the whole idea that a full picture can be a fragment is...well...it goes contrary to what we're "taught" to think of reality. I love this piece of art for numerous reasons and that's one of them. It shows something very real that very few people stop to consider. It's gorgeous and it's all-too-easily overlooked, and yet you saw it and you've presented it here! That in and of itself is impressive as all get-out! And on to the image itself. It's gorgeous and serene. It strikes me as alive and organic (in that squishy, moving, completely alive and jiggly way.) The colors and shapes are astounding. Everything works so perfectly together in terms of composition and focus...and it's just a frikkin' awesome picture. Yeah, it actually DOES deserve the word awesome.

after reading chip I feel like saying, "duuude! nice colors!" He does have a way of rendering the rest of us speechless...BUT! Being the bigmouth that I am, I won't be daunted. To chip's idea that we're not taught to see a fragment as a work of art, I agree! And that's why the modern movement came about. "Abstract art" is so much closer to nature than most people understood: To "abstract" (the verb came first, not the noun) meant to take something's essence and present it by itself. So "abstract art" is no more than essences, and what can be more natural than that? Abstracts are paintings of essential processes, essential patterns, essential "song," visually. From that perspective, this is totally whole, it's an essence of what glass does, how glass behaves in light, how it transforms it and makes it its "own," and how it creates this whole soup of heaves & billows and turns it into a mini ocean. I hadn't looked at the original glass this came from, until now; and whew, I had no idea! Such a sedate glass, and here it is the scene of an apocalypse! But that's what photography is about, right? To find the picture in the picture? Weston did it with green peppers & other shapes, and he was one of many such photographers. And then, you're a painter: What's more natural than you finding a natural heaving, swelling & ebbing painting inside something as simple as a glass? Wonderful work; and man, the stuff you're doing these days...you gotta continue. It's awesome. (lol---see, chip said it again, and I know there was this whole thing about "awesome" aways back. So now I said it.) (I was gonna say "rad" but I'm a little old for that...)