Bonus Post
In response to this cliche-ridden photo that I posted last week, and because of comments made by fellow bloggers (Ehpem and Brett Erickson, I am looking at both of you!), here’s a little game I like to call Can It Get More Cliched?
Checklist o’ Cliches:
Cactus, with tunas (the red bulb-like things)*
Ristra (string of dried red chiles)
Turquoise window frame
Blue sky
Puffy white clouds
Carved bench with rustic paint scheme*
Adobe building with tan stucco
So, yes, not only COULD it get more cliched, it just did. And, suddenly, that other shot doesn’t seem so bad, does it?
Thanks for playing.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
photographed 9.2.12
* Unfortunately, the judges did not grant my request for bonus points for the tunas on the cactus and the rustic paint scheme on the bench. They are very strict.
Posted on December 26, 2012, in Photography. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
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Ha! You did threaten to post something of this sort. Did you have trouble finding it, or is your hard drive full of this kind of shot?
I think they should have given you points for the rustic sun painted on the bench, but who am I to judge? This shot really has enough gems to classify as a cliché photography.
I was duplicating some slides yesterday, or trying to (aargh), and came across a ~1981 shot of a couple of extremely cute kittens fighting each other. In a basket. Not a lot of individual points in that one, but maybe a few bonus ones for the basket though.
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I took this in Albuquerque’s Old Town, where about 99.7% of all photos ever taken are similarly infected with cliches. It’s just the nature of the place. I took this because it amused me to see the way so many of those things could be lined up in one shot.
If you’ll email me the kitten picture, I can photoshop it in; that will impress the judges!
And, no, my hard drive’s not full of this kind of crap, because its full of other kinds of crap.
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