As you know, my "featured image" each month is usually a photograph which does not easily fall into a series or body of work that I'm currently working on (though, of course, it may become the seed for a future series).

I've long had a slight obsession with the ability of glass - and especially windows - to show multiple levels of depth simultaneously: the the view through the glass, the reflection behind the viewer and the glass surface itself. This recent image is an example of exactly that.

Behind GlassFeatured Image for November 2013 Behind Glass

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The subject here is an exotic flower in a greenhouse, framed behind a dirty glass window pane. The flower seems to intrude into the world of the reflected landscape behind the viewer - we see a blue sky, what may be palm fronds or tree branches, the vague impression of buildings. These three planes of existence are combined in the image -- three dimensions into one!