Symmetry
This is a collection of photographs that play around with the concept of symmetry. It was inspired by the September 2016 competition of the North Bethesda Camera Club.The first image is of a Czechoslovakian cut glass vase that shows a beautiful rotational symmetry. Next comes a beautifully engineered tire from a Mercedes sport coup, again exhibiting rotational symmetry. The ceiling of the Penn Station provide a bewildering array of symmetries and near symmetries. The remaining pictures are manipulations of a single image of my friend Johnny Sackett. I asked him to pose for these pictures because he is a fun guy, and has an interesting face. Also, I asked him becasue he can cross his eyes, and that is a way to show another aspect of symmetry. In the end, I didn't use any of the cross-eyed shots. The first image is a normal portrait shot of Johnny. All others are manipulations of a single image.
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Czechoslovakian Cut Glass Vase
I bought this Czechoslovakian cut glass vase in Moscow in an upscale shop in the formerly proletarian building of the GUM Department Store, right on Red Square. It is a focus stack of two images in order to capture the patterns in the 5" tall stem at the center of the vase. It has rotational symmetry under a rotation in multiples of 30°, but the brightness variations suggest a bilateral symmetry about the vertical axis.
