Inadvertent Collage
by eloise

Comment:
Not sure I agree with your title but I guess I get your point. Anyhow. Yeah, kind of interesting array of stuff, much better than a cubicle shot could've been by a long shot.

Erupting Paper Clips
by ladpupmoe

Comment:
Run for your lives!

Heh. This made me smile -- definitely funny. I'm actually not sure if I like it with the tape dispenser but mostly I think because that's the brightest colour in the photo -- maybe if it were a bit more of a muted tone. The eyes keep going to there away from the 'action' of the shot.

Stamp
by rickhd13

Comment:
More interesting in terms of topic than many office supplies, but I'm not sure about the tightness of focus; having so much blur foreground combined with the bright highlights detracts from the photo as a whole.

Rods of Steel
by agwright

Comment:
I can't call this 'abstract' as obviously I know exactly what's in the photo, but that was sort of the sense I got. I'm sure there's a word for this I'm just forgetting because I'm not art-critic material. :)

That having been said... I like the choice to include only a single coloured clip.

Old Stand By
by jerrft

Comment:
Might make an interesting catalog photo. I question the choice of black and white but I'm just like that... still, as your subject is itself not something most people are going to spend a long time looking at, having it be bright and colourful might help.

Morning Coffee
by Mitonski

Comment:
Too intentionally arty for my personal tastes. An angle looking into the coffee cup to emphasize the liquid, or brighter lighting on the liquid, or leaving it colour, would have worked better with your title. I don't care for how dim the lighting is on the objects being shown; it says 'abandoned' to me, which may seem an odd thing to draw from it, but there ya have it.

Copy of a stapler
by Alexys

Comment:
This really does nothing for me, I'm afraid. I think I'd rather have seen the copier in action with paper or something more unusual (coffee mug? a kitten? yes, I'm weird) on top of it... eh.

A Stapler
by russi

Comment:
That's a mighty strange-lookin' stapler ya got there.

I don't know. I suppose as a minimalist piece it works. Of course, I'm not big into minimalism, but some people like it.

Night Falling
by boyte1

Comment:
I don't know if I see a connection to the challenge here with the possible exception of the lights looking like something one would find in a professional building's parking lot. I realize some people took the topic as things you'd find hanging in an office but I disagree, so if that's what you were going with we have an interpretation difference here.

As far as the actual photo goes... I don't know... the 'night falling' part is fairly obvious, but the sky is so washed out that it's kinda unattractive. More colour, or more interesting cloud formations, might have been nicer. Having the streetlamp over in the corner is, however, a good touch.

Ammo
by casualguy

Comment:
I had a feeling someone was going to do this. On the plus side, you have a lot of different colour rubber-bands, which makes it far more interesting to look at. And the framing is kinda cool, although it may be a bit too much negative space on the left.