Ad infinitum (adverb): Again and again in the same way; forever.
Origin:
Latin, literally 'to infinity'

One day I was in the washroom at work and looked up. Both sides of the washroom have mirrors above the basins so the reflections bounced back and forth, creating an illusion of an infinite series of walls and mirrors. The photographic potential was immediately obvious to me, though with people going in and out of there all day the opportunity to take it was not.

However it will be noted that this shot was taken on a Saturday, one in which I had to be at the office to work on a new budget process and, more importantly, to re-do about a month and a half's worth of data uploads that had been borked by the administrators of another system when they made a change. As I was the only one in there, and as I always drive in when I work on weekends, it was possible to bring the Manfrotto and the 40D in for the ride knowing that I'd have the washroom to myself for a while.

Originally I planned to just have the sparse, empty washroom itself extending into infinity. But then it occurred to me that my own life was becoming a bit like that, consisting of very little beyond work, day in and day out, hour in and hour out. I've become like a ghost in my own life, not to mention in my own PAD gallery as my sporadic posting and commenting attests. Combined with the influence of my spectral encounter in Port Arthur, I therefore elected to slow the shutter speed down to half a second and inject my own self into the image (walking forward while the shutter was on timed, sequential release) as a similarly infinite, ghostly figure. (Though unlike the Port Arthur image, the source and nature of this particular "ghost" is obvious.)

I then desaturated by a substantial amount and pumped the contrast via a levels layer to further amplify a somewhat "haunted" feel.

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