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Canon Image Challenge | all galleries >> History (Best Of) >> Best of C*I*C >> Best of 2015 > 4th(Tied): A Saucerful Of Secrets
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May 21, 2015 Traveller

4th(Tied): A Saucerful Of Secrets


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Canon Image Challenge25-May-2015 13:04
Dearest Paul: There is no correct answer here...that's the fun and point of the shot. Jim had an interpretation and that set my mind to have a few additional ones...and you can take it anywhere you might want.

My thinking that this would be a better image with no glasses, or, off to the right where I usually have them....lol....you caught me.

All the whites, the fomalism and geometry ARE nice...but I needed something for the Challenge....I may shoot it again but also post for you the original scene in Pending...it was quite messy....with glasses on the right....lol

Traveller
Canon Image Challenge25-May-2015 12:21
I see that was some story you had going there, you could have been another Steven King. I also am aware from time to time, mostly all the time, I'm too literal and miss the point! Duh..... I'll go outside and stand in the cold rain to wake myself up now. Paul
Canon Image Challenge25-May-2015 02:38
I know better than most...that stuff happens. No Problemo...

But for Paul, they were interesting stories....a man at an outdoor restaurant in Sicily, suddenly a thick rope around his neck...led away and kidnapped for Ransom.

Of which there was none and no one to even contact...the demands not only met by silence, nowhere to even deliver the demands.


And, in the alternative, a similar nightmare....he is slapped by his lover, his glasses landing in his plate; he runs after her, leaving his table, muttering deep apologizes...

You decide which nightmare is worse...lol

But Jim's story is damned decent also (and Biergarten beer is good...)

Traveller
Canon Image Challenge25-May-2015 00:46
I didn't see the Italian restaurant comments but I am of the belief the glasses would have been better placed in the negative space to the right of the bowl which is where I would expect them to be in a natural setting. Further as traveller implied I can't imagine myself placing my glasses on my dinner plate.

Now to the point, it doesn't change my opinion on the image because I like it no matter where they are placed. And my final point is oh darn now you have an excuse to return to that restaurant and restage the photo and modify it in anyway you desire. Paul.
Canon Image Challenge24-May-2015 23:59
oops.
In editing my comment I must have accidently deleted yours.
Your stories about the Italian gentlemen and his ruined dinner were good.
Sorry.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge24-May-2015 23:54
I'm having some trouble here. The glasses, as we agree, are obviously his. However, they have been carefully set down on the large bowl. This kind of carefulness is much more German than Italian.

We know there are some fabulous Italian restaurants in southern Germany. But his lover never showed up, as the unused silverware implies. It couldn't have been the food.

So he ate, he waited for her, she never showed; and thus in extreme anguish he took off his glasses, dried his eyes, gave the waiter a 50 Euro bill and he wandered away to his favorite beer garden to think more about his future.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge24-May-2015 22:12
You are spot on - without the glasses, there is no story, and no fit to the title. And since we don't know the story yet, it is certainly a secret until you share it.

I'll add a bit to the secret. It looks like the diner set on the left side of the table, and as such, holds his fork in a very continental way. Perhaps he is from Germany?

Jim
Canon Image Challenge24-May-2015 21:55
And of course, what is happening? Why the glasses? There is a story implied here, I think.

I have often thought that I ruined this shot by the placement of the glasses...but, to fit this into the Song Title, this was a necessary and essential element of the composition.

I am coming around to like this myself.

Finally....lol

Best Wishes, Traveller
Canon Image Challenge23-May-2015 14:40
Very interesting - I like the fit to the title. I too like the multiple whites, along with the stainless - then the splash of color. Nicely composed.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge23-May-2015 06:32
Thanks Paul....I am with you here on the partially consumed meal....but there is a lingering question of what happened here? Or at least I hope there is some vague sense of being slightly off...a wrongness.

I can see this as being a polarizing image to people....either yuck, or what the hell?

In any case, I am just trying to learn how to use the new camera any way I can...lol

Traveller
Guest 23-May-2015 03:31
Now your talking, absolutely love the white on white setting, composition and the lighting. I've never been a fan of partially consumed meals as a photo but you did this one well enough for me to overlook that. I can't imagine me not voting for it. Paul