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A Japanese teacup. I have another one with a bear nose (I'm too old for this... I know).
I've got a severe headache since yesterday. So, I didn't take coffee today, but a lot of herb tea instead.
Lurking in the shadows of Matterhorn Mountain lies one of the most insidious and frightful attractions known to man... The Teacups!!!
Yet another shot from the long ago Corey Dorsey Photo Meet back in January.
Another of Teacup because she is so little and cute! I need to get her some new eyechips and attempt a face up :D
1. TeaCup pouch 41, 2. TeaCup pouch 39, 3. TeaCup pouch 38, 4. TeaCup pouch 33, 5. TeaCup pouch 42, 6. TeaCup pouch 43, 7. TeaCup pouch 28, 8. TeaCup pouch 23, 9. TeaCup pouch 36, 10. TeaCup pouch 29, 11. TeaCup pouch 35, 12. TeaCup pouch 25, 13. TeaCup pouch 12, 14. TeaCup pouch 9 - lining, 15. TeaCup pouch 10 - lining, 16. teacup pouch 3 - lining
I will never get over the idea that Indian people drink street-side tea out of real, handmade ceramic cups. As far as I know, not washed and re-used. A quiet, daily statement on the cost of artisan labor that there's pretty much an unceasing supply of cups.
I really like this!
Have a great day.
Object study #6
Logan is much better today.
He stayed over night at the hospital but will hopefully come home today.
Thank you for all of your well wishes and prayers.
i like this teacup. i was experimenting with lighting so it's not exactly what i had in mind, but i still posted it.
this one is on ffffound.com too......awesome.
And now for something completely different . . .
Like many others I'm sure, at the close of a year and decade I find myself going through the archives and assembling 'best-of' lists, and coming across images that are worth another look.
Several years back we were on a family trip to Disneyland, and in the evening came across this spinning teacup ride that was closed for some reason. I thought the shapes and colours were awesome, and it looked quite surreal with no people at all. Luckily I had a small Joby Gorillapod with me that let me clamp onto a handrail and take this shot.
Page 2 -3 of my Sketchbook Project 2011 sketchbook, on the theme Make Mine a Double. Two teacups and their saucers. On the left, my one Russel Wright teacup. On the right, a hand-thrown cup from a local art fair. Sharing a cup of tea is such a civil, gentle pleasure. Having ones own unique cup makes it more fun. December 18, 2010.
So this week's challenge was the rule of thirds. This image didn't really show this rule, but I do like how it turned out. It's more on the lines of an odd number for the subject. I tried to make 2/3 of the frame negative space, but it didn't really look right. Fresh week coming up.
Last week, I posted a shot of some water drops after I was inspired by this strobist post on how to photograph water drops. I liked my results, but I was pretty sure I could do a bit more with it.
So, in the interest of pushing myself, I thought, "No, I don't have to just drop water..."
This one is my favourite shot.
I stuck with a liquid theme, but rather than just dropping some liquid, how about a container for liquid? And rather than just have said container simply ricochet off its landing surface (a piece of black perspex, in this case), how about it lands on the saucer that would normally accompany it? Smashing.
On reflection, I could have dropped the cup and saucer together, but I had a couple reasons for dropping the cup onto the saucer. First, it made a good target - I could line the saucer up in camera and be sure that if I hit it with the cup, it would be in the frame. Second, I was working by myself and had to both trigger the camera (with a little remote button) and drop the cup. Adding a saucer into that equation might have made things a bit too cumbersome for me.
I like both the overall composition and the details of this shot: the off-centre cup, the sexy splash coming out the left side, the surreal splash rising upward that looks like it was being poured, the large shard on the left that is rising just off the surface, the pulverized mess beneath the cup, the random little fragment escaping in the top right...
I ended up doing about eight to 10 of these shots in one morning. Each smash lasted a fraction of a second. If only the cleanup lasted that amount of time.
Lighting info: One sb-800 on 1/16th power below the set and aimed at the background. Another at camera right and above on a very low power (I think it may have been right down to 1/128th). A bounce card at left of the teacup to fill.
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