A 10-minute slide show showing photographs selected from across the Mirrored Nature Project set, accompanied by piano variations (including my mistakes) based on "Graaandma" (by Koji Kondo), The original melody is Track 16 of the soundtrack of the video console game "The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker" by Nintendo. My version here is somewhat incorrect in comparison, as I don't know the original song perfectly. The images are digital photographs, many of them "macro", all of which have been mirrored across a vertical axis, and many of which have been mirrored across both vertical and horizontal axes (i.e. like a crosshair), and occasionally further divided and mirrored twice or more in one or both of the axes.
Some photos are also "developed", so to speak, with the help of turning the original image to some angle other than 90, 180, or 270 degrees. This creates another mirroring axis which is not perpendicular to any side of the original image rectangle. Some of these non-perpendicular photos may be included here also.
The photos, for the sake of the slide show order, were first arranged by size, and as a result the subjects are more varied than they would have been, had the photos been arranged by name or date; in that case, the photos would tend to appear in sequential fashion, each subject having its own series of pictures which are all related as a result of being "developed" in the first place from either the same image, or from a similar image of the same subject.
That is, there are, first of all, sets of different photos taken, usually in a single session, of a subject, then from some (rarely all) of those originals, secondary sets of a variety of mirrored images are made. Potentially, each and every image in the first set might be mirrored, in various ways, and the result put in the second set, but as most of the originals are not suitable, for one reason or another, for effective mirroring, I rarely mirror all the images from an original set of photos of a single subject.
The progression of mirroring choices is seen a little too obviously when the photographs are arranged in the sequential manner described above, so I usually prefer to randomize the subjects by first arranging the images by size.
The original, official "Graaandma" track is only a minute and forty-one or forty-two seconds. Ten minutes of variations on a theme may be too much of a good thing for some listeners. Hopefully, the photographs, which do not repeat, counter this repetitive effect to some extent.
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