An Egg

I started with an idea to use an egg for a photo project. Originally the plan was to put the egg in different containers…contrasting the colors and shapes of the egg with its container. I started with the small bowl from my blue tulip depression glass. It was too big!

I looked closer….to get the wobbly crescent of blue color on the egg from the sunshine through the glass. I also noticed the shadow on the left and how the pitted surface of the eggshell was more noticeable near the line between sunlight and shadow…just as the moon craters stand out at the edge of light and dark of a crescent moon. I also got an inkling of the window screen shadow on the egg.

Looking even closer at the egg…the pits and screen shadow.

I repositioned the egg to the windowsill and saw that the shadow of the screen is distorted by the shape of the egg!

Another change in positions and getting closer so that the pits of the shell show again. Where did those little flecks of orange come from?

Overall – a quick project…and quite different than I anticipated….more about the egg, shadow, pits…than the container for the egg!