The Take #2: Topsy-turvy Christmas Tree

TITLE: Topsy-turvy Christmas Tree

STORY
Every December, the St. Regis Hotel in Osaka erects a huge Christmas tree decorated with beautiful ornaments made from Japanese paper. The colors of the tree are blue and gold and it's quite spectacular. We visit often and I always try to take photos of the ornaments but I've never been happy with the results. However, that doesn't stop me from trying and so I return as often as I can to try yet again. (No luck yet.) One year I was distracted by a food cart off to the side full of empty glass jars with lids. They looked like oversized cookie jars and perhaps had been used earlier in the day for that very purpose. The glass knobs on the tops of the lids were particularly interesting and as I got closer, I realized that the colors and shapes I could see in them were upside-down reflections of the room. So cool! Thankfully everything was aligned so all I needed to do was position myself in the right place and - ta-da! - the result was this topsy-turvy Christmas tree.

WHAT I WAS THINKING

• What are these empty glass jars over here?
• The knobs on the top of the jar lids are so cool!
  
• And if I look closely... there's an upside down tree?! What?!
• Will my camera even do this? Ah, let's give it a try...

CAMERA DETAILS

• ISO 360
  
• 18.5mm
  
• -0.33 ev
  
• f/2.8
  
• 1/60
  

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