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**This contest is open to photographers ranked between 251 and 1000 in this week’s <a href="https://www.photocrowd.com/photographer-community/">Leaderboard</a>.** As a theme, glass allows all manner of photographic genres to be employed. Modern buildings are shrouded in it, we use it throughout our homes and workplaces as decoration, to drink from, to correct our eyesight, and to admire ourselves in. Churches have beautiful stained glass windows, and In laboratories we fill it with blue and pink liquids, usually.
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As a macro fan, this image (captured with a 105mm lens) caught my eye. What looks like a volcano rising from a lush green jungle is in fact the centre of a glass bowl on display at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. With so much to see at the museum, the photographer has done well to isolate a single object, slow down and really take the time to produce something unusual. I appreciate the panoramic crop too.
There is something wonderfully gentle about this picture: it feels as though nature has taken over a secret urban space. The flowers reach like fingers across the grid lines of the window and the upright lines of condensation and grass (outside) contrast well with the curved stems. There is a cinematic feel to the lighting, which also appeals to me.
