Reflector
This is a better…ahem…reflection of my attempts to find interesting abstracts within objects. This image was taken with a Fuji X10 and is straight off the card, without any cropping, sharpening, or color correcting. I was taking photos of various businesses in a nearby town, including macro shots of the glass bricks in a bank window. Since this is quite near to the police station, I wouldn’t have been surprised to be confronted about what I was doing. But the only time anyone questioned me—what they actually said, from a car on the other side of the street, was “Can I help you?”—was when I was taking a series of closeups of this reflector on a traffic barricade. I said, “I’m just taking a picture of this reflector,” and rather unnecessarily pointed to it (my camera lens was practically touching it). Apparently satisfied, they drove off. Go figure.
VAPOR AND FLOW 
Wonderful shot.
Your post reminds me of an experience I had a few months ago. I was driving down Lake Street here in Minneapolis and saw a composition consisting of a bench and an old bucket being used as an ashtray. They were sitting in front of the Bryant Lake Bowl, which is a hipsterish combination bowling alley/restaurant/bar.
I pulled over (well, I had to circle the block first), parked, and got out to take the shot. I was kneeling on the sidewalk, with my head bent over the articulating screen of my Samsung NX300, when I heard someone ask, “Are you all right?” I looked up, and a waitress from the restaurant was looking down on me, her expression registering a significant degree of doubt.
I explained what I was doing. The waitress’s expression remained dubious. I showed her the composition, but she clearly could not understand why anyone would want to take a photo of such an unprepossessing spot of territory. Nevertheless, she finally departed, and I finished taking my shots.
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