Was wondering if I would ever find a place to post this =)

[Tuffythepug]

Ya lost me on this one. A padlock, a melted crayon, and a cup hook (or whatever you call it). I've spent some time trying to find some significance to this arrangement of random items without any success. I don't think it works as a pure shape and texture composition; It's not colorful, there's very little contrast. Please tell me what I'm missing.

If less is more this may be too much.

 

[Rick58]

Are you folks really that tightly wound that you can't just press the shutter unless you're making a technically perfect photgraph? You're missing a lot.
Sure, there are times when you set up the tripod, wait for just the right time day, double check your composition, make sure your your DOF is set and possibly even reposition a blade of grass before snapping that shutter. Then....there are the other times. At least for me there are. This is one of those. This photo "worked" just because it got people looking, wondering and, at least in my case, laughing.

 

[sm4him]

Are you folks really that tightly wound that you can't just press the shutter unless you're making a technically perfect photgraph? You're missing a lot.
Sure, there are times when you set up the tripod, wait for just the right time day, double check your composition, make sure your your DOF is set and possibly even reposition a blade of grass before snapping that shutter. Then....there are the other times. At least for me there are. This is one of those. This photo "worked" just because it got people looking, wondering and, at least in my case, laughing.

I dunno, I AM pretty tightly wound.
I've never taken a "technically perfect photograph." And I've certainly taken my fair share of photos that made me smile, or laugh, or even cry that would just make others scratch their heads and go "Huh??" I have a 16x20 print of one of those hanging in my bedroom.

It's just that there's also this little strainer thing in my head (no, not like an implant, just a figurative one) that prevents me from letting those photos that no one else would quite "get" fall through the cracks and out onto a public forum where they would get a collective "HUH??"

But I'm the first to admit: even the little strainer thing in my head is pretty tightly wound. :lmao:

 

[HughGuessWho99 14]

Could be why it's posted in the "Just For Fun" section. Call me crazy.

 

[2WheelPhoto]

Its all good, I suspect a nude model holding an old crayon may have drawn different responses

 

[HughGuessWho99 14]

Its all good, I suspect a nude model holding an old crayon may have drawn different responses

It SURE would have with me.

 

[cgipson1]

Are you folks really that tightly wound that you can't just press the shutter unless you're making a technically perfect photgraph? You're missing a lot.
Sure, there are times when you set up the tripod, wait for just the right time day, double check your composition, make sure your your DOF is set and possibly even reposition a blade of grass before snapping that shutter. Then....there are the other times. At least for me there are. This is one of those. This photo "worked" just because it got people looking, wondering and, at least in my case, laughing.

Oh.. I was laughing... and I wasn't really wondering! I guess I am tightly wound?

 

[cgipson1]

I dunno, I AM pretty tightly wound.
I've never taken a "technically perfect photograph." And I've certainly taken my fair share of photos that made me smile, or laugh, or even cry that would just make others scratch their heads and go "Huh??" I have a 16x20 print of one of those hanging in my bedroom.

It's just that there's also this little strainer thing in my head (no, not like an implant, just a figurative one) that prevents me from letting those photos that no one else would quite "get" fall through the cracks and out onto a public forum where they would get a collective "HUH??"

But I'm the first to admit: even the little strainer thing in my head is pretty tightly wound. :lmao:

There is nothing to get except a questionable photo and some pompousity!

 

[Rick58]

Hell, I thought it was a slug and the padlock symbolized a hard shell ...aka a snail. It sounds like I read way too much into this...LOL

 

[cgipson1]

Hell, I thought it was a slug and the padlock symbolized a hard shell ...aka a snail. It sounds like I read way too much into this...LOL

It's easy to do!

 

[Tuffythepug]

So far all we've heard from the OP is that one item is a melted crayon. I may be too tightly wound like some others but I'd be interested in reading what prompted the OP to stage this particular group of 3 items in this way. I realize it's in the "just for fun" category but it still leaves me wondering "why" ?

In my opinion (which is frequently wrong) a photograph where the only discussion seems to revolve around the questiuon of "why does this shot exist" is lacking in any real merit. But I'm willing to admit that I may just be too tightly wound or un-hip to get it. I mean no offense to the photographer, I've taken plenty of shots that would leave others scratching their heads but I'd be willing to explain what my thought process was when I pressed the shutter release.

 

[Tony S]

I think even the OP is wondering what the heck he was thinking. That's why he was happy to finally find an appropriate gallery to post it in.

but I still don't get it.. lol

 

[laurenvictoria]

This. This is art. No one understandsss

 

[o hey tyler]

PLOX EXPLAIN

 

[Derrel]

I would enter that picture in a photo contest. It's a lock to win at least some kind of prize! I take snaps of that sort quite often. Just yesterday I shot a short sequence of frames in a grocery store parking lot...a woman, obviously, had written a grocery list on the back of a bill envelope...in big, girlie-type handwriting using a Sharpie type pen.; IDK...it just seemed like it was worth snapping a photo to remember the event by. Life is made up of a lot of small,little moments. Not every shot has to be a grand vista, or a photo of the Taj Mahal. This is also the "Just For Fun" gallery...and I have had quite some fun watching some of you respond to a pic as if this is some kind of uptight,exclusive, hoity-toity photo forum or something... hell the "For Fun" part, for ME at least, has come more from the replies than from the Original Photo...