Once in awhile, landscape photography can get uninspiring, especially when you are unable to travel to shoot a new location. It’s  difficult to find inspiration when you’ve shot the same location at every possible angle.  I suppose that that is why drone photography got so popular, as the birds eye view is just another perspective to add to the list, but I would imagine that in time, that can get boring as well.

To try to challenge myself, I decide to bring some common items I had with me lying around the house to capture objects in motion. One idea i had was to capture a flying  water-filled mason jar.

To be honest, I don’t believe I’ve ever used mason jars for real utility purposes.  I’ve never canned or stored anything in it, and I don’t drink from jars (isn’t that what cups are for?).  So it is funny that my first use of a mason jar is to photograph it.

With a help of a friend, we decided to throw it around the beach,  because that is next logical thing to do with an unused canning jar.  And because I tried this in Laguna Beach, no one questioned us, as stranger things have occurred in Laguna Beach.

I have to say throwing a jar around was much more difficult that it looks, or at least for me. Apparently, water-jar throwing is an art: you can just throw it like you throw it a baseball,  because it doesn’t travel far, and it drops like dead weight.  Also, if you toss it straight up, it also drops like dead weight, and most of the water still remains in the jar.

See? Not that simple right?