Un-Forbidden Fruit
by autool

Comment by Gordon:
Congrats on a really funny entry. Nicely done and well deserved.

Un-Forbidden Fruit
by autool

Comment by shohn:
Great entry. Very funny. Does those boots come in a 8 1/2?

Un-Forbidden Fruit
by autool

Comment by Konador:
Congrats on your win :) Very funny photo! One of each colour ribbon now, nice work!

Drew's Stop Sign Revisited
by autool

Comment by briphoto:
That old sign is in SAD shape! Nice picture.

Drew's Stop Sign Revisited
by autool

Comment by Konador:
Guess someone got jealous of the win eh? Poor sign :(

Drew's Stop Sign Revisited
by autool

Comment by bdshort:
This is a great shot -- no pun intended ;) Nice lighting in the background, and the light on the stop sign looks surreal. 9

Drew's Stop Sign Revisited
by autool

Comment by Malokata:
Kind of depressing, I wonder what happened here. I think this would have worked a little better with less space cropped on the left or a little more on top, just so they were about evenly spaced.

Un-Forbidden Fruit
by autool

Comment by Sonifo:
Congrats, autool!!!!
You deserve 1st place. Great story behind the picture too. Thank you for the good laugh.

Un-Forbidden Fruit
by autool

Comment by DougPaz:
Congrats autool, very creative and well done shot!

Un-Forbidden Fruit
by autool

Comment by autool:
WOW!
Like I always say "let's have fun". I truly think that "fun" is what it is all about. This picture is the result of one of those times when you wake up at 3 o'clock in the morning and have a great idea and you can't wait till morning to do it, so you just lay there knowing that if you go back to sleep you won't remember in the morning what the great idea was.

I first tried to recruit my wife to do a "nude" for the humor challenge and for some reason she wouldn't talk to me for qutie a while. After we started communicating again I explained what I had in mind and we tried it, but both her and my fingers were too old! My 19 year old grandaughter stopped by and caught us, and volunteered to allow me to use her younger hands. It was her idea to add the boots which really made the picture, at least in my opinion. Another of her concerns were that her "thighs" would look too fat. It was really quite strange how we immediately started referring to parts of her hand as those other parts of the body that we were trying to represent.

It was a whole lot of fun to make this picture, and I thank all of you that voted and gave me such wonderful comments. Most of all I thank John and Kim for giving me the inspiration and such a great picture to spoof. Last but not least I thank the person that gave me the "1" for taking time to evaluate "Un-Forbidden Fruit" and to keep me humble.

Keep Shootin' and have fun.
Dick