Get Pushed "What would Clare do????"

I got pushed by Joan Robilliard @joansmor to create a shot in style of one of the people I follow on 365 and whose work I love. Here we go.
No cleaning the house today, as the time and the cleaning supplies were used for creating the picture. The inspiration is Clare Gadsby @pistache. She takes a wide variety of beautiful pictures, but it is her still-life style that really gets me. Especially when it involves glass and/or reflections. I also like her rich colors and tones, the fact that in her pictures, the often mundane becomes an exquisite object. So, thanks, Clare, for inspiration for this shot and I hope you will approve :)
Here are some shots by Clare that served as direct inspiration for this challenge:
http://365project.org/pistache/365/2015-06-04
http://365project.org/pistache/365/2015-05-11
http://365project.org/pistache/365/2015-05-07
http://365project.org/pistache/365/2015-03-25
http://365project.org/pistache/365/2015-03-15

[Vera]

@joansmor I hope you like it. @pistache I hope you don't mind to have an admirer of your work! :)

[Annie D]

excellent reflections :)

[vstap]

Like your colors here, and deep reflection.

[Paul Hudson]

I love the vibrancy of the colours in this one. And there's an "airiness" about the picture thanks to the great use of the reflection and POV used in the composition. :-)

[PhotoCrazy]

Wonderful color, reflection

[Suse♡]

What seriously cool challenge! And I lie the pic too, I always love reflections!

[Kim]

Wonderful colors and reflection!

[gloria jones]

Great shot, reflections, light

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Beautiful colors and reflections.

[Bep]

Very beautiful. Love @pistache pictures!

[Sue]

Well done - lovely colours and I like the inclusion of the reflection of the trees

[Danette Thompson]

That's cool.

[AliPic]

Love the reflections.

[Joan Robillard]

How quickly you have responded. Rain expected Sunday so I have scheduled that for my indoor shot. But I doubt it top your shot.

[plainjaneandnonnonsense]

Stunning

[Clare Gadsby]

Far from minding, Vera, I am thrilled & surprised at your challenge! It's made my day. Possibly my year. Thank you so much for your kind words. Which mean all the more as I am such a fan of your work. As you will know, I wholeheartedly approve of setting aside cleaning in order to take photos but I realise that I must get some more attractive cleaning products at the earliest opportunity. I really like this image. Where did you take it? Not sure if the trees are reflected through a window? The colour-through-glass theme works so well and the composition is great :)

[Vera]

@pistache Oh I am so happy you liked it! The picture was taken on my window sill, as I looked at those bottles before picking up one of them, I saw that they actually had a lot of things that I envisioned I wanted in the picture for this task - color (as one had pink liquid, the other one yellow, and the little one blue), reflections, sunshine, and that glassy quality. The only thing is that my window sill is not all that shiny to have reflections as clear as I wanted them... so, spilling some water on it helped a lot :) Water is a much better reflector. So, the trees you see on in the picture are the reflections of the pine trees outside our balcony.
In any case, I am thrilled that you liked the result, and I can tell you for sure - it was a great fun and actually made me stop, think, analyse, plan and be precise in the execution of the shot.

[Vera]

Thank you so much everyone for comments on the "Clare-like" shot! :) It was fun making it, took a lot of thinking and also - since I was the one controlling everything in the frame - doing..... like spilling water on the window sill to get better reflection.... and wiping water off the floor afterwards too. But it was great fun and was totally worth it. Thank you!!!



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