Photo Riddle #6
According to Google a riddle is a question intentionally phrased to require ingenuity in ascertaining its answer. I figure I can call this post a riddle, even though I’m not actually asking a question… The way this works is simple: you need to guess what these photos are. They are all as taken, or SOOC (that is, no post editing – no colour correction, no cropping, or anything else.)
What ‘s the point? I just think that we can become so jaded and indifferent to the world around us, by the commonplace, mundane things we see every day, that we stop really seeing them. I love discovering details, discovering beauty in everyday subjects…
Do you think you can identify these objects, all of which were shot today, Sunday 5 February 2012? If yes, leave your answers in the comments section below…
(The photo above is not part of the challenge. It’s obvious that it’s a very spiky, fat, green worm) I”ll post the answers in a few days, as well as the name of the riddle winner.
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I have been blogging here since around April 2011 - my little place on the blogosphere to express myself creatively. As a teenager I used to write a diary - in fact, as a 17-year-old living in Belgium, I wrote religiously every day. Fortunately the Internet didn't exist back then because my ramblings as a teenager were ever-so-slightly dark, cynical and depressing. You won't find much of that here. Also, mostly, I try not to get too deep or philosophical in this forum - I'd like my photography to uplift and inspire, and, where I can, I try to bring a bit of humour into my writing too. I've been fortunate enough to travel extensively and have made many friends across the globe. This is my spot to keep in touch with them.
1. Mini blinds hanging in the back of a pick-up truck overlooking the steering wheel
2. A coaster
3. ?
4. I’m gonna go with the insides of a piano
5. A vent of some kind?
6. I don’t know, but it’s pretty
7. Beer label
8. Bottom of a chair, or bench (I see you!)
1. The view from behind the window of a bakkie
2. The top of a French wine bottle.
3. A frisbee
4. A zither
5. A leather necklace
6. A beaded ornament on a handbag
7. A lid to a drink – possibly beer
8. A drop of water hanging from a golfing iron (club) with your reflection in it.
One: The shades at the back window of one of Menlyn Drive-in’s cars, looking to the front.
Two: The cap of a brandy bottle that you brought back from France.
Three: Smiley ball’s Made in Taiwan mark.
Four: The strings of the harp you use to play music to your father on Sundays.
Five: Top corner of a top loader washing machine.
Six: A jumble of earrings at the Waterston plot.
Seven: Wine bottle label of one of the wines that Matthys brought home for you.
Eight: Foot of a modern table in the Jones’ home.
1, photo taken into the cab of a car or truck, 2 wine bottle, 3 kiddies ball, 4 piano strings, 5 blade of grass or green plant, 6 earring or chandelier dangley thing, 7 beer or wine label, 8 tap with lever for the stopper.. Am I even close??
1. View of vintage car through rear window with blinds
2. Seal on top of wine bottle cork
3. Some sort of screw cap
4. Guitar strings
5. Car door joint or petrol flap
6. Beads on a key ring
7. Menu
8. Your reflection in something shiny
From my Canadian perspective – given that I thought the very first spiky green photo was a cactus, I’m not even going to guess what anything else is in your South African world!
Yes, I was joking about the cactus … Clearly that’s what it is…
1 fixed blinds in a back of a classic car
2 Bottletop of a salad dressing
3 kids toy
4 piano
5 toploader
6 earing or hanbag ornament
7 Tribeca cup
8 statue stand
1. Rear blinds on a zeph-mobile. Your dad’s new car – all he could afford with the insurance money.
2. A DGDDI from France. On top of a cork on a bottle.
3. Edam from Nawiat. Or a plastic thing from Taiwan.
4. Inside of an inside out piano type musical instrument with stringy thingys.
5. A button next to the touch pad on a laptop.
6. Decorative junk – like everyone else said.
7. An enamel hard surface with printing – from the food and beverage industry. Maybe a mug or some kind of condiment dispenser.
8. A kind of stainless steel serving spoon on its stand.