March 23 2006: The Empty Paint Pot by Ray :)

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March 23 2006:
The Empty Paint Pot

I nearly didn’t do Bev and Lee’s challenge today “Celebrating Spring”, as I’m no great lover of photographing flowers and animals, and don’t have any patience to catch birds. I had a completely different idea for today, but that really didn’t work. But then I discovered this old pot, which actually had Ronseal in it, not paint. I do suffer from diyphobia so the fact that the pot was empty had a certain appeal.

So I’m celebrating spring, as other people will be doing DIY and not me!

Other entries for the challenge

Carole
Jola
Bev
Faye
Lee
Laine
Coleen
Scott
Bob

Photoshop:
Cropped and Resized
Adjusted in Levels

Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel
1/125s f/4.0 at 23.0mm iso200 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto

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photo and copyright: Ray Pettit

Roe..		25-Mar-2006 12:46
you've won the yummy contest!..I title you King Of Yummy..v

SRW		25-Mar-2006 00:18
Stunning colours! And that is a great angle... (V)

Guest		24-Mar-2006 16:15
Brilliant! Very creative. I don't know what I love more,the perspective or the colors. V

Karen Stuebing		24-Mar-2006 11:39
Fantastic capture. Diyphobia? I'll have too look that one up. Super lighting and colors and shadow.

Guest		24-Mar-2006 10:58
I thought you were going to call it 'Scraping the Barrel' ;-)

Dan Chusid		24-Mar-2006 07:57
Never heard of Ronseal. I use a lot of paint too. What-sit?

Guest		24-Mar-2006 07:57
For me, DIY stopped when photography started. No time to do both! Interesting lighting. A torch under the can, and then a light from above perhaps? Great colours too.

shatterbug		24-Mar-2006 04:55
Love this! A wonderful idea, well executed! V.

carol j. phipps		24-Mar-2006 02:11
This is exciting work, richly colorful and creative.

Guest		24-Mar-2006 00:08
Very nice textures and colors. Wouldn't I know what it is after reading you text, I would be puzzled!

Sharon Rogers		23-Mar-2006 22:58
Omg, I almost googled diyphobia .. Love the angle and light.

laine82		23-Mar-2006 22:49
Well if you don't have 'spring' in your step, you had better 'hop' to it :>)

J. Scott Coile		23-Mar-2006 22:43
Masterful light! Drenched in color and interest.

Stu		23-Mar-2006 21:45
This is simply superb, Ray. Would you be interested in a swap?

KimKong		23-Mar-2006 21:20
God! It took me a while to get what diyphobia means! I'm defenitely Diyphobiac! So now tell us how you are celebrating the spring, if you do not shoot birds, animals, flowers and do not DIY? ;) I must add, I would have never guessed what your PAD was and I really like the colors. I don't know how you always get those splendid deep colors, I never get anywhere close to those.

JW		23-Mar-2006 21:12
Genius picture but even more, er, clever commentary!

Bob Floyd		23-Mar-2006 21:01
Great "away from the mainstream" shot for the Challenge. Love the detail in the bottom of the paint can. Very interesting and well done.

Carole Stevens		23-Mar-2006 20:38
Unusual shot lovley idea,I love the cracks in the paint! I couldnt find any flowers out here, so had to resort to a twig leaf for the Spring thing desparate EH!

Guenter Eh		23-Mar-2006 18:43
You are pumping out one eye catcher after another Ray! Genius!!!

beverley harrison		23-Mar-2006 18:23
i really like this one ray, strange as it is, its very eyecatching!!