fear of the Supernatural
by sanandan

Comment by just-married:
I think the challenge is extremely weak, sorry. As far as the photo goes, I just don't see much interest in it. It's a picture of a statue - there needs to be something special to make it more than that. 3, just-married

fear of the Supernatural
by sanandan

Comment by Willa:
OK, sorry. This is a very nice photograph, but AGAIN, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS CHALLENGE.

fear of the Supernatural
by sanandan

Comment by jmsetzler:
This is a neat photo... I must say that I'm a bit lost on how this image relates to childhood... I'm assuming that this statue is that of a child sitting on the knee of an adult? There may be a culture barrier between this image and my understanding of it :) - jmsetzler

fear of the Supernatural
by sanandan

Comment by Swashbuckler:
This is a wonderful photo. I think I get the idea, might be a little abstract of a concept for the majority. Looks like the statue is in the middle of a paint job?
8 Swash

fear of the Supernatural
by sanandan

Comment by Journey:
Sorry, the connection with Childhood escapes me here. Nice, clean image though. 6 Journey

bare necessities
by sanandan

Comment by floyd:
Very clever shot. Too clever, in fact. I admire the thought that went into this shot and I offer the following observations. 1) many people won't recognise this as a kerosene stove. 2) there's no way the viewer could know that this kerosene stove was being used to roast peanuts. 3) You can't quite make out the word "Live" in "Live with it". I still love the texture of the shot - I just wish I'd been able to get the rest of your idea out of it too.

bare necessities
by sanandan

Comment by sanandan:
Thanks for your coments! I understand that none could get what I was trying to comunicate here. So I explain....
The image is of a Kerosene stove, and the tank of the old kerosine stove is shown in the image with the lid that is used to open and add kerosene. Since this is the most characteristic part of a stove, I took a close up and assumed that all those who have seen a kerosene stove would be able to relate to it.
This image is shot on a street-vendor's cart in Bangalore (India) who sells roasted peanuts on the roadside.He uses old magazine paper/newspaper to make paper cones for packing the peanuts. So behind what you see as black is the image is the stack of magazines that he is going to use over the day.
The black paper is interesting and I delibrately included it in frame because of what is written on it in the red. It says " Live with it". Hence the title bare necessities.
The reason I entered this image in this challenge is that this is a product which is really old, but is still being used in its original form for earning a living. My interpretation of the challenge was that to shoot something that is really old, looks old but has some significance in the present context.

bare necessities
by sanandan

Comment by sjgleah:
I'm sorry. I want to like this, but I don't get it
at all... 3 sjgleah

bare necessities
by sanandan

Comment by 4david:
what am i looking at? radiator and camera?

bare necessities
by sanandan

Comment by Swashbuckler:
Mostly a good shot, but of what? I honestly don't know what this is. What is the paper behind the rusty thingy? Metal bar on the left should be cropped, it is out of focus and doesn't add anything that I can see to the shot. 6 Swash