Adventures in Glass and Plastic

[Images: Three "refractographs" by Alan Jaras (©), aka Reciprocity, taken from his public Flickr pools. One such pool, called Bending Light, documents ghostly "patterns made by light passing through various glass and transparent objects." (Jaras has a thing for glass). The images in Twisting Light, meanwhile, capture "the manipulation of light refraction patterns through moulded and formed plastics." The first photograph below is part of Jaras's ongoing "experiments with the refraction patterns of light through formed and shaped plastics. Here is the first attempt at introducing colour into the plastic shape while still trying to retain the fine detail and rainbow patterns in the clearer and lighter parts." Amazing results; objects as microcinemascopes. Finally, don't miss another of Jaras's Flickr sets, the novelistic nano-surfaces of MicroWorld, discovered via gravestmor].


(All images in this post ©Alan Jaras).