Google Image Search

In order to give the Marine and Natural History Photography student I am to be working with an insight into the kind of photograph I am after, I am making up a Pinterest board of images. This seems useful for my own process as well as it has quickly become apparent that I have a very set idea of what I want (compositionally, colour-wise, level of detail etc.). Really, I am looking to make similar images to the once I have already, but with a far greater level of detail (and taken more expertly).

I have been Google Image Search-ing using some of the photographs I have and find the results a little amusing... the suggestions of similar images almost exclusively brings up pictures of planets (if on the black background) and jewelry or jewels (if with the white background), both things I have explored as connotative concepts to the contact lenses.

Another intriguing result was this one below !! ...I wouldn't have said that the original image looks particularly like an eye but I love that it brings them up. The arbitrary nature of Google Image Search can be quite uncanny when it aligns like this - it highlights a kind of gap between what we register subconsciously and what we openly acknowledge in viewing images.

The Pinterest board can be found here: Contact Lens Images (Ideas)