So let's get started for February's contest. Looking for burning desires

[Mira]

Does anyone have a burning desire for a theme?
Speak now, I'll leave this up til Sunday and will then put your ideas up for a vote.

[s-cubed]

1. Love not hate. nt

[s-cubed]

1. Love not hate. nt

[Mira]

6. Funny, I was complaining

the very minute you posted!
Like the suggestion a lot.

[Mira]

3. 70 views and no suggestion?

I hope you are all off thinking about it?!?

[alfredo]

4. Cabin fever

[petronius]

5. Heh, I thought you were announcing that "Burning Desires" was the theme

[Mira]

8. You gave me a good chuckle.

I wish we COULD make a photo of that, especially in these interesting times. Also: I have to watch my sentence structures and use of the language to be sure I'm clear on what I mean to convey.

[ManiacJoe]

7. Back to basics: simple table-top still life

Should be something everyone can do regardless of local weather.

[alfredo]

9. I like that idea.

[mnhtnbb]

10. If still life, post a definition. Last time we did still life there were

multiple entries that didn't really fit the accepted definition of a still life.

[ManiacJoe]

11. I can see that happening.

I tend to think of it as "inanimate objects often arranged in a group".
The textbook example is usually a bowl of fruit or a flower arrangement.
Technically shots of prepared food probably qualify, but I tend to discount them.

Lots of cool examples here with some that fall outside the normal definition:
http://photographyinspired.com/100-examples-still-life-photography.php

[mnhtnbb]

12. There are indeed lots of cool photos in that link

and I agree, some which I personally would not categorize as still life--particularly the one of the fireworks exploding over the bridge--but also the single
unmoving objects like the rusted door hinge. I think of still life as requiring the artist's (photographer, in this case) intentional creation in some way, not just walking up to something that is immovable and taking a shot.

[Mira]

13. I agree with you in principle, mnhtnbb

though in practice I run across arrangements of objects and visuals that are beautiful as they are, and that therefore also fit the theme. Then the angle and the crop become important, not so much whether I did the arranging or not.
If the subject is chosen, I will decide on the direction of it,we'll see.
Later today I will post a short time poll.