Weekly Photo Challenge: Refraction

Weekly Photo Challenge: Refraction For this photo challenge, show us what “refraction” means to you. It could be an image taken in a reflective surface, it could be light bent from behind an object, or it could mean remedial math homework: the choice is completely up to you. I’m looking forward to seeing how you interpret “refraction.”

Back in Sarasota, Florida I was out and about a lot, and became fascinated by the many fountains all around the city. I especially loved them in the sunlight when they seemed like exuberance made of water and light. Once in a while I was lucky enough to catch one in just the right light that showed a rainbow, which is just the thing for this photo challenge of refraction.

It’s funny how a photo can take you right back to the moment when you took it, even after years have passed.

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This day I stopped in front of an assisted living facility in Sarasota, happy to see this fountain in the bright sunlight showing a rainbow. A physical therapist from our company stopped to see if I was having car trouble, not sure why I was stopped beside the driveway.

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This fountain is in the middle of a big pond at the entrance to a neighborhood called “The Meadows”. I passed it frequently but that day I had made a special trip there to photograph the fountain in the late afternoon sunlight.