Shooting Challenge: Infinite Loop

Infinity is the idea of something going on, extending, without measure. But how can you conceptualize something without end, let alone SEE it? For this week's Shooting Challenge, you're going to figure that out.

The Challenge

Capture a photo that shows us infinity.

The Technique

The absolute first thing that comes to mind is the old double mirror trick, capturing the reflections of a mirror of a mirror of a mirror...And that's great, so long as you figure out how to keep such tricks differentiated from other entrants.

Though, technically, you should know that mirrors won't create infinite reflections - they're actually countable. It's a bit of a sidebar, but I found this explanation on a physics board pretty fascinating:

Plane Mirrors placed facing each other (parallel) actually does not produce infinite images, It will though in infinite time. . Say [a photographer] leaned on one mirror while the other is placed just over a metre in front. His image(of his anterior aspect that is) will be formed after approximately 1/300,000,000 second. Image of his back will take a further 1/900,000,000 seconds more if he is one foot deep. Now in one second alone we have about 300,000,000 (300 million) images. After just half a minute you'll have enough images to keep you occupied for over 70 years if you can manage to count four images a second. Nothing said of the images behind you. Well, that seems like infinity to us.

Of course, for the purposes of this challenge, I'm more than happy to call that "infinite" as well as any other ideas you might come up with the capture the concept.

The Example

Our lead shot is by flickr's cuttlefish. Note the infinite background due to mirrors. Also note that, this admittedly cool self-portrait approach has officially been done. Push yourselves and your perspectives to do something different.

The Rules

1. Submissions need to be your own.
4. Email submissions to, not me.
6. One submission per person.

Send your best photo by Monday, June 12th at 8AM Eastern to with "Infinite" in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs, and use a FirstnameLastnameInfinite.jpg (970px wide) and FirstnameLastnameInfiniteWallpaper.jpg (2560px wide) naming conventions. Include your shooting summary (camera, lens, ISO, etc) in the body of the email along with a story of the shot in a few sentences. And don't skip this story part because it's often the most enjoyable part for us all beyond the shot itself!
