Fun with light and colour

Today is a gorgeously sunny day. I can't rave enough about it. It's been a perfect day for working on my project of creating a photographic tour of our apartment for the folks back home. I'm still working on that, but I also had some fun with still lifes, especially playing with the fun light and colour around the kitchen.

First we have a close-up on some fun canisters that our friend Elisia gave us as a wedding present, and which add some lovely colour to our kitchen window:

I also wanted somehow to capture the other fun window sill items: the mortal and pestel (extreme foreground), the depression glass, and the orange and lime jug and cup. Therefore, I did some twisting about, and shot them from below. (Also photographed: the crazy dolphin lace curtains that came with the place):

Here's the spice rack we got from Chad's grandma. Just above it, you can see a bit of a shadow of a dolphin, from the curtain:

Finally, Chris has been playing with ways of photographing the bulbs from Janice's broken Galileo's Thermometer. They're in a custard cup and on top of our deep freeze (and I had some fun playing with the contrast):

(P.S. Message to Derek from Chris -- we're listening to DNTO's search for a movie critic, and their first finalist is a pastor from Edmonton. Chris fell on the floor laughing, quite literally, when he found out. And, for some reason, he immediately thought of you. But not enough to tell you himself, apparently.)