Wine for Breakfast

No, I haven't gone off the deep end.  It's just how creativity works.  Flickr has this challenge every week called #FlickrFriday.  This week's theme is #Flip.. As I was chewing on that (Light switch? Coin?, Trampoline?) my wife told me to toss an old bottle of Prosecco in the fridge. The light bulb went off.

I remembered looking at a picture about 40 years ago — a bottle of wine, a glass of wine and a French château.  They were sort of lined up but the château was (of course) way in the background.  In the wine glass, the château was reflected upside down.  It's just how the optics work with the curved glass of a wine glass.  So I took the bottle and a wine glass up on Monte Sano for my normal sunrise shot and Presto!  Flipped. 

I'm really pleased with the results.  I knew it would flip the Sun and the horizon but I didn't realize it would reflect the blue portion of the sky, from straight overhead, in the rest of the glass.  The added contrast 9cool light on warm light) was nice.  I shot it a dozen different ways (of course).  Some of the other compositions were quite interesting too.  And it gave me other ideas I want to try now.  Which, of course, is the whole point of the exercise/challenge.

Nikon D7200 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR

185mm

F8@1/400th

ISO 400

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