3 Chairs
by taterbug

Comment:
Where da monkeys? You'll presumably be slaughtered for lack of colour, sharpness, doing creative things and on and on. It's actually a classic shot, but I can't see my way to rating over 5 in this challenge.

Waiting for Rumsfeld
by dsidwell

Comment:
This has a literary element that I can't read. Without it I don't see more than a pleasantly odd picture - 6

Chairman
by Jutilda

Comment:
Manchair :) Lovely surreal picture. You have certainly done something creative with furniture here. 8

Mum's old Glass Cabinet, and Clock
by Grandad

Comment:
Nice piece of furniture, evenly lit with the content well visible. All that at the cost of clearer definition to set the item off against its background. Caters for the dowdy.

SNAFU
by muckpond

Comment:
Problems with the fancy new camera, huh? My heart bleeds for you.

Neat shot. Congrats :)

Newdigate-2.jpg
by raish

Comment:
This was taken with an aperture priority Canon SLR in 1982. The picture is basically under-exposed because the ISO setting was 400 and the film was 100. The effect was to capture the overcast weather far more realistically than would otherwise have been the case.

Larva Lamp in a Cold Climate
by raish

Comment:
There are no stylised Graeco-Roman icons of female genitalia in this photograph. There's a symbol there, for sure, but it's obscure.

...to thine own self be true...
by raish

Comment:
Thanks for all the comments here. I'm deliriously satisfied with it myself. I think this is yet another reaction to what I see as a fairly goofy challenge subject. In order to go beyond something that either looks or acts like a person, what do you have to do? The idea is to have something that apparently thinks or feels in human terms. This bit of brass is actually disingenuous in appearing to do so, which is even more human.
OK, it was a joke...

Something Lost in Translation
by raish

Comment:
There is an obscure Norwegian homomorph 'mad' which denotes fry, as in very small fish. In Danish 'mad' would be 'food', I think.
outtake:

Brushing your teeth is good. Being a little girl and brushing your teeth is even gooder. Being a cute little girl, a blonde-haired cute little girl and so on just gets gooder and gooder, until a blonde-haired, cute, white-robed little girl in a white-tiled bathroom, backlit by rays of morning sunshine and brushing her teeth, is in danger of inviting trade union representatives for heavenly hordes to complain about transgression of demarcation agreements. I thought it contrasted neatly with the Norwegian homomorph.

German too, huh? All in the linguistic family.

No added text allowed in basic editing, so it had to be xerox-like. Like the Warhol idea, though I don't aspire anywhere near it. This is largely a sort of reaction to the given theme as much as it is an interpretation of it. I'm completely happy with it.

Thanks for all the comments.

Lady Vengeance
by TOY

Comment:
Beautiful girl, beautiful shots, well thought out. Too bad about the dq - that's basic editing for you. L'on ne désespére pas, non?