This picture started out as a few cardboard tubes that I picked up from the local fabric store. But what is there, really, to do with them. As any reasonable person would do I looked at them this way and that and then stacked them in the corner because that didn’t immediately help at all.
A few days later I picked them up again, looked at them this way and that, and even peered through them like telescopes. Perhaps looking through a cardboard tube opens up a whole new world if you are a child and can see through the other end using your imagination, but looking James Bond opening style through a tube doesn’t do much when viewed through the lens of a camera.
As a rational thinking being might, I set the tubes aside again and looked for other ideas. Since none came to me, I took some LED lights and put them in the tube, which I promptly set aside one more time while I cut up and painted the other tubes. I glued those tubes together to make some abstract looking piece which I photographed. Then I turned on the lights and took a picture of the inside of the last tube. It turns out I actually liked that tube with lights picture so I played with it, changing the focal point until I got the picture above.