Photographic Alpha Bits

In between naps yesterday as I was trying to recover from the ick monster… I had a variety of ideas.  And on a whim this morning I grabbed my camera and headed out the door.  The premise was simple – capture as many letters of the alphabet as possible – only none of them could be actual letters.  Ok, since that was clear as mud, let me explain.  Ok, if I wanted an “A” then I had to find something in nature or architecture that looked like an “A” but no letters on signs or in print.  Make sense?  So I spent about a half hour this morning outside, followed by another half hour at the computer looking over what I’d captured.  Then after I got off from my second job this afternoon, I grabbed the camera again and went on a little field trip around downtown and the cemetery.  Then back to the computer to see how things turned out.  I managed to get a photograph for every letter of the alphabet except a “U!”  And some letters I ended up with quite a few options.  I think it would be really cool to print these photos at 5x7 and then hang them on the wall in rows of words or names.  How cool would that be?!  And after I get quite a selection I should be able to do just about any word you could imagine and quite a few different ways.  I’m infatuated with this idea at the moment.  And yes, I realize the idea didn’t originate with me, but that doesn’t mean I can’t take my own photographs and give it a whirl.