Lens Artists Challenge #380: What’s Around the Corner?

Lens Artists Challenge #380: What’s Around the Corner?

This week, in the first Challenge of 2926, it's Anne's from Slow Shutter Speed turn to host. (https://annegeephoto.com/2026/01/10/lens-artists-challenge-380-whats-around-the-corner/) 'Have you ever gone out on a photo outing and not seen anything that would have your camera saying, “Pick me up and help me take this picture”?' asks, Anne. She continues, 'I have a theory that there is always something to photograph.' And I agree. You may have planned to make photographs of something and not found it, or you may not have planned to take anything at all and come across a scene that just stops you in your tracks, and I think that's what Anne is looking for here.

'What’s around the corner?' What unexpected image is waiting for you just out of view? But then again, what is a corner? Lots of things have corners. A road may bend sharply around a corner, a racetrack has corners (and turns, and straights). A street has corners, a block — I don't have much experience with them — has intersections, but each block has a corner. (Right?) Buildings have corners, blocks of flats, office buildings, houses, all have corners on the outside, and on the inside. Rooms have corners. Furniture, doors and windows have corners, picture frames have corners, photos and pieces of art have corners. There are corners everywhere. Even your eyes have corners, as everyone spots something out of the corner of their eye. There's  no escaping corners. 

(https://youtu.be/vEymZ3rXOmc?si=w2qBxdeMWuzSjDWx)

But of course, that whole paragraph was just a delaying tactic. To give a little space to post a couple more images of the scene that greeted me this morning. I wandered into the kitchen to prepare my breakfast, and I could see this golden glow in the corner of the window. I wondered what it was and moved towards the glow, to be greeted with a thin sliver of sunrise peeking through a gap between the horizon and the thick grey clouds that blanketed the rest of the sky. The light was broken up into abstract streaks by the patterned frosted windows that we have in the kitchen, and I new that I couldn't let these few moments escape. 

With my well-worn Panasonic Lumix GF1 (I didn't wear the smooth black paint off the corners of this GF1, that was its previous owner, who clearly used this camera a lot), and an Olympus 14-42mm zoom, I filled the frame with the glow and added a slight hint of intentional camera movement to reveal these lovely delicate abstracts. I hope you will agree that you don't have to be out travelling to be surprised by something just around the corner, there's beauty in a lovely warm kitchen too.

Themes for the Lens-Artists Challenge are posted each Saturday at 12:00 noon EST (which is 4pm, GMT) and anyone who wants to take part can post their images during the following week. If you want to know more about the Challenge, details can be found here (https://photobyjohnbo.com/about-lens-artists/), and entries can be found on the WordPress reader using the tag 'Lens-Artists'.

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