Waiting for a Good Idea

Great title!  Mangy condition captured great!

Truly magnificent shot. Very imposing. Kryptonite mixture in the tungsten whirpool of sheer deligt, sweetest dream of every high tech doper, slightly camouflaged into an old school style only to avoid unrequired attention of profane and then good measure of arcane mystique adds forte to piano. IMO compo is a little bit too tight tho for its own good, probably.

Love this. Just simple, beautiful, plain composition. Strong!

well..why...yours WAS a good idea already! particularly, keeping the edge of the other bulb on the left worked very well here. compliments -koushik

I like the idea and love the title.  Very imaginative!  Your presentation is where I part company with you.  It's a little haphazard and I would have presented it a bit differently.  Not to show what's 'right' and what's 'wrong'.  Simply to demonstrate the variety one can achieve when one's artistic license is let loose.  There will likely be a different preference for every viewer.  Always interesting to see what catches your eye.  Best, LM.

Super!  I always look at how the background lines add to the idea, and here, they seem to converge toward the unlit bulb, giving a bit of energy, as if an idea is trying to flicker into life, but is struggling to do so.  The little red lights almost look like cartoonish magic, twinkling around, hoping to wake the scene up.

A bulb in a box! Yes, some kind of understood haphazardry is welcome. As Jeff mentions leading lines adding environment, context. Potential and burnout. 

I just saw a play called Camping with Henry and Tom, an interesting dialogue among Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and Warren G. Harding. This would have made a good cover photo for the playbill, especially as Edison was already burned out at the stage in his life that the play took place. 

There's something almost alien, otherworldly in those antennae inside the bulb. The subject is framed, not by the frame but by your chosen composition, always an eyeful. And the bit of the next bulb gives just enough of a glimmer . . .

Hey, I'm back and glad to be here, of all places!

Jack, I feel we are returning to the old tungsten electric bulbs as a stand-by , after recent shutdown of atomic plants.

I really appreciate the comments. Thank you.

Tatjana - Thanks. Like you, I'm one of those people who doesn't like to post a picture if the title isn't right.

Ilia - Reading your comment is kind of like finding your way through a very interesting, non-linear maze. Always fun, always a provocative challenge. I had a hard time deciding on a comp for this picture. Sometimes the crop or composition is obvious but not for this one. This was just one of many different versions and I'm not particularly in love with it.

Bengt - Nice to catch up with you again You post pictures so seldom nowadays, it's always a surprise when your name pops up. I'll have to stop by and check what you've been up to.

Koushik - As I noted to Ilia, above, I had a hard time deciding how to approach this shot. The balance is precarious (I guess that kind of reflects my life in general) but it works after a fashion, I think.

Len - Thanks for taking the time to rework the picture. I think you rebalanced the tones, too. As I've noted in a couple of comments above, on pictures like this I have an inclination to go for a more eccentric equilibrium that seems to flirt with disintegration and chaos sometimes. It really is a knife edge approach that fails probably more than it succeeds but which interests me in any case. Your crop has a completely different mood, centered and balanced,and is a more or less pure examination of the bulb itself. It's an excellent choice although I decided to go in a different direction.

Jeff - Yeah, that's right. This was a shot that certainly had potential; it was just a matter of thinking about it and finding a composition that appealed to me. Sometimes I'll decide on a particular approach and come back the next day, take a look and wonder what the hell I was thinking of. It's kind of like wandering through an endless hall of mirrors at the funhouse; you're alwyas trying to discern the real path and not knock yourself silly by walking into one of the disorienting reflections. It's not about finished product so much as it is about process and just moving forward even when you're not sure where the hell you're going.

Fred - Glad to see you back. Yeah, burnout is a bitch and I'm talking from decades of practical experience.Sometimes it's hard to keep putting one foot in front of the other when the desert seems endless. But what's the alternative? Stand still and take root? I've always had an aversion to that. So I keep bouncing along like a tumbleweed through good times and bad, always knowing the wind would move me somewhere else. Everything in this world is temporary since it's only a classroom of sorts - even if you get to be class president. What's important, I guess, is appreciation and understanding. And (hopefully) that never ends.

Amal - Thanks for your comments. I find comfort in the old, the tried, the true. Too much "progress" tends to confuse me. Things have certainly been a lot slower here on photonet. Even many of the old stalwarts have slowed their contributions, myslf included. My photonet subscription comes up for renewal at the end of this month and I've entertained thoughts of just letting it expire. But, I know that that's not going to happen. Things are perhaps not quite the way I'd like them to be but the friends that are here and their stimulating photos are important to my life. As disappointed as I sometimes get, I realize that there is no alternative right now. And so on we go.

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Love it. You waited, you found it, you photograph'ed it. Because good ideas are worthless if they stay in the mind, just like light that stays in the dark.

This caption made me laugh. We're walking talking light bulbs.