Agave
by carlacryptic

Comment by wetland:
Very unusual angle and capture. Very good.

Kitchen Plastics
by carlacryptic

Comment by dsa157:
the glow of the plastic is interesting and I like how you moved the handles around for visual contrast. I think you could have positioned the inner bowl to be more centered. Also, it looks like some bad blurring work on the bottom coaster.

Agave
by carlacryptic

Comment by admart01:
I really like the colors and how they interact with each other and the shapes. Your pov has me looking down the channel and pulls me into the plant. To make this fine shot better,..a little more negative space?

Agave
by carlacryptic

Comment by tfaust:
Aren't these usually green? I'm not a big fan of the composition of the hard shadows in this shot.

Kitchen Plastics
by carlacryptic

Comment by Mousie:
I like the positio of the neated funnel and bowls, but the background could be perfectly square. I like things with absolute vertical/horizontal lines.

Agave
by carlacryptic

Comment by kaidai:
Excellent shot. love that passive colour yet stimulating. nice texture. 10

Agave
by carlacryptic

Comment by undieyatch:
soft pastel colour different from the plant? but still in the spirit of the true colour of the agave some how. I think superior vertical composition and use of the shadow - which might be even more dramatic if darker, however still very effective. Pink and purple barbs as a secondary design focus provides extra complexity to the design. Very adept composition and design.

Reaching For My Heritage
by carlacryptic

Comment by carlacryptic:
LOl... this has been a real eye opener for me - the coments mostly surprised me but, then, I had a very distinct sense of what the picture was about - way too specific and unsharable in a single image. Perhaps if it had been part of a series (which, of course, it was for me, in a way - I did over 100 shots to get this one :), it would have been able to evoke more of what I had in mind.

I've written to some of the commenters privately, but thought I'd put the context here for anyone to see who is just passing through.

I'm multiracial, Black/White/Cherokee, and grew up in the 50's in the US. My hand in the black lace glove is reaching for one of my heritages in the form of the African statue (which I won at school for my learning of Swahili many years ago) which is distant and shrouded in mystery. Closer, and more likely to be felt, is the smooth, hard, glaring billy club on the right - representing the brutality my black ancestors have faced since being brought to this country against their will. So, obviously, the fact that most people didn't even realize it was a billy club (!), and that most people didn't recognize it was a hand in a glove reaching for the statue, a lot of the meaning was lost in the translation.

I live and I learn. :)

Agave
by carlacryptic

Comment by brownt:
Nice idea, can really feel the sharpness of the spikes. The colours feel a little bland though, don't know if you could have done anything about that.

Kitchen Plastics
by carlacryptic

Comment by glenfoto:
I like the use of lighting here. It really makes the plastic stand out. Great photo.