When I was 2 years old, my grandfather bought new cabinets for my grandmother and he rebuilt the old cabinets into a bar that was a favorite family hang out spot in his house for years. When he died a few years ago and my grandmother decided to sell the house she was going to throw the bar out. Over my dead body. I drove to Cleveland, rented a truck and drove the bar back. Now, it sits in my dining room now as one of my most prized possessions.

This mirror was my addition to bar. It probably doesn’t seem like a big thing, but for some reason part of me just can’t seem to change the bar itself, but I wanted to add something to it. You can’t see it in this picture, but his name is on the mirror in decals. It adds a nice since of "barness" to it and it makes me happy to look at it it. I’m sure he would have approved.

Assignment 2. Mirror/Reflection. A great, though challenging, compositional element is the mirror. Use reflections to complement your subject. Anyone doing a self-portrait in a mirror will be tagged “phoned in.” All other reflections are fair game.