Welcome to Reflections by FW. I am Fred Williams.
Although I’ve been a “doodler” since middle school, this digital journey began several years ago with a snapshot of a yoga student doing a “half handstand” in my yoga teacher’s studio. I do not know what grabbed my attention about that picture – colors, angles, whatever. Geometric shapes have always intrigued me because of the numerous ways they can be combined to form a completely different shape. I began my process of partnering the yoga “half handstand” photo with various geometric shapes. When they morphed into multi-pointed images; nested squares of four figures joined at the corners, etc., I was amazed at the results. To this day, I cannot fully predict what the final product will look like, but it is always a pleasant surprise.
Eventually, I settled on working from digital photos taken by myself, my wife, or friends. In the early years, family and friends became unwilling recipients of my developing process. Luckily, they were encouraging enough to keep me going. After several years, and several changes in format, they told me share them with the public. It has been an interesting venture, and it is still way too fun.
This website is for you to enjoy. My goal is to make it a fun place for you to visit to look at what I consider some very unique pictures. I find them very calming. Although I look at several of the images each day, they are never the same. The resultant image is always a surprise – nothing I could have imagined at the “get-go”. Let your imagination go, and you will “discover” your own birds, bugs, cathedral windows, masks, and other small images within the resulting image. You will always see something new.
Reflections by FW website is a work in progress. Keep checking back for the latest updates of images and products. In the development stages are customer-defined calendars, puzzles (jigsaw, block, and a couple of “devious” custom puzzles I have designed), as well as preliminary work on several other products that can utilize my images.
May you enjoy my works, and find the same “ease” they give me. To repeat, they are never the same – you will continually find something new in each of them.
Hopefully, you will have as much fun as I have had!
-fred