This image, I have to admit, is not my favorite. When doing this project, I find myself getting fixated on finding a shot that fits an idea. This day I was bound and determined to find something that emphasized shape. For whatever reason, I liked the half circle and against the straight lines. I think this shot would have worked with better lighting and a wide angle lens, but the Rollei 35 I used for this first month has a fixed 43mm lens. Not very wide. It’s widest aperture is also f/3.5 and I was using 100 ISO film, so indoor lighting was terrible to work in. This shot was probably made using a shutter speed of 1/2 a second. Anyway, no excuses, this is supposed to be a learning process. And what I learned here is that the metal in this photo looks awesome. I love the texture of it. Digital cameras couldn’t pull this off with their narrow latitude.
These are the kind of cookies I could obliterate in day with milk to wash them down. I would NOT eat them left to right. I would just randomly grab them. In fact, if I were watching the boob tube, I might not even look at the cookie I was picking up. However, I have been known to eat M&Ms or other similar candies by separating them into piles by color and then devouring one color at a time. The more I look at this, the more it reminds me of my ukulele. The lines of the floor boards are like her strings. The grain of the wood is like her body. The can is like the openig into her body. Makes me want to strum a few chords.
It sounds like you need to get a new ukelele. You should check out the local folk duo, Shiny and the Spoon. The female singer rocks a uke. It’s pretty inspiring.