Identify This! No. 63

Todays object is an interesting sucker - can you work it out?
More about "Identify This"... http://365project.org/netkonnexion/number03/2011-05-11

Yestderday you saw...
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Yes, well, yesterday? Totally easy-peasy. It was a bunch of cocktail sticks all in a tight bunch. I accept toothpicks because they could easily be the same thing. Congratulations to all those who got it right. Well done!

Honorable mentions to...
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Sabrina - Crayons? Anyway ... looks cool! Net says:-->> Nope! Sorry! Wrong! LOL...

scooter - That reminds me of a bunch of wooden skewers. Net says:-->> I guess that is what cocktail sticks are. So I think we will give you that one... No awards mind! LOL>...

Sharonlc - Porcupine? Net says:-->> Could have been, if porcupines were wooden! LOL...

Brandie Moody - A wooden hedgehog! Net says:-->> Now you are talking! You get tonights "Prickly Sculpture Award!" Yaaaayyahhaaa!!!! LOL...

Howard N - My very first thought was "leadless pencils" which are used for transcribing only the most secret of top secret memos. Then I wondered how Mr. Net would come upon them, and changed my mind. The EXIF info was not helpfull... So, I must concur, either wooden toothpicks or skewers they are! Net says:-->> You get tonights "Correct Waffle Award!". Yay! Only a little cheer tho'... LOL.

Paula Brumbe - wooden skewers to stab food with in case it gets too feisty. Net says:-->> I liked the idea of 'feisty food' (another literary device there) so you get tonights "Active Alliteration Award!" Yeeehaaaya!!! LOL...

Cheryllee - Super!!!! I first thought this was a center of a flower. Net says:-->> Where do you think wood comes from if not from the centre of a whooping great big plant! LOL....

Lisabell - Do you have a pet hedgehog or a sea cucumber? If not, then I’m going to guess wooden toothpicks. Net says:-->> Alas my Sea Cucumber passed away while helping out on the cheese and onion sticks plate! LOL>...

Doug O. - Massage glove. Net says:-->> Wow! That massage would bring the tears to your eyes. Love it. I think you get a Doohicky Award! Yeeaaaahaya!!!!

Paula Cook-Farkas - I'm going for extreme close-up of Nice Cave's soundsuits...a photo of which can be found here: http://365project.org/seattle/365/2011-04-16 Or, I could just go for the obvious answer of toothpicks... Net says:-->> Yep, go for toothpicks me.dear! Simpler for all of us!!! LOL.

Vicki K - Dog brush. Net says:-->> Wow! I have never seen a brush made out of dogs before. Anyway this is a bit prickly for a dog unless it was crossed with a porcupine! LOL. You get tonights "Absurd Cross-Breeding Award!" Yeehasooooha!!!!

Aarti krishnakumar - wowwiee... brush? Net says:-->> Calm down! Its only a picture. LOL... Wrong! ROFL....

Sue Wilde - The protective outer covering of a particularly luscious and exotic fruit which needs to be protectively covered so that we don't just immediately eat it. Net says:-->> Wow. Did not see that one coming. I would have ducked if I did! LOL> You get tonights "Defensive Fruit Award!". Yaaaaaaghagya!

Kathy A - I think an albino porcupine. Net says:-->> Damn porcupines are everywhere tonight! LOL...

Carole Imes - This looks like one of those rubber type sponges or whatever that you use to scrub pots and pans ??? Net says:-->> It gotta be a "Doohicky Award!"... Yaaaaaawho!!!!

I laughed a lot tonight.. I hope you had fun too.

See you tomorrow.
Enjoy!

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[scooter]

Shoot, no award but I did not change my mind!!! I was going to! LOL

This looks like striped drinking straws...are you on a beverage roll? LOL

[Paula x2 Brumbe]

Its just a box of straws
I don't know who put it there
Believe it if you need it
or leave it if you dare
But it's just a box of straws.

Sorry, needed to paraphrase a favorite song of mine. Points for the song.

[Mike Warren]

Straws

[Paula Cook-Farkas]

I don't think anyone will suck at tonight's answer...I'm going for straws.

[Brandie]

Straw paper rocket launchers! (I just recently taught my daughter how to shoot the paper off wrapped straws...I'm such a naughty mama. lol)

[Shirley Chetwynd]

staws for me as well

[Keith MacKenzie]

A platoon's-worth of spitball-launching devices

[Howard N]

No waffling this evening... My guess it is not a hand full of cathaters, so they have to be drinking straws. High end designer type no doubt.

[Netkonnexion]

@hown - I know "I take the micky", but I do enjoy your little tirades Howard! Sorry if I have put you off. Grin....!

[Vanessa Walters]

I think it is a bunch of straws.

[Rick Schies]

Straws will get my vote.

[Shirley]

a bunch of straws

[Brian Buccigrossi]

straws

[Alta D©]

yep, going for straws! then wondering if strawberries have straws and why is it named so? ..oh well...

[Reba]

yes - now i see it IS straws. Love them.

[Bev]

straws, but edited for negative

[Linda]

Straws

[Vicki K]

It's the underside of bubble wrap which you have gone to a lot of trouble of painting very fine white and black stripes on the top side...just to throw us all off track....GOTCHA DIDN'T I???

[Kimmi]

straws

[Shanne]

clear plastic straws

[Kathy A]

If you stare at it hard enough it resembles honeycomb or bubbles but I'm sure its straws.

[Sue Wilde]

Just because it looks like straws doesn't mean it's not bubble wrap!

[Peggy Sirk]

It looks like it could be a bath puff or one of those plastic dishwashing thingies...

[Jennifer C]

spongiosum

[Louise Brinklow]

straws???

[FaerieMoon]

Straws inverted?

[Natacha Murphy]

i think this is a bunch of straws :D

[Julie Ryan]

It reminds me of a bee hive, with the color altered, but that's probably not it.

[Alison Hewitt Bailey]

I really like this. Tonal inversions are great for moving a subject further away from its reality. I knew what they are but they're almost not, if that makes sense.

[Netkonnexion]

@dulciknit - I agree about tonal inversions. But somehow, over the last few years, I have moved away from processing to make an image have impact. I try now to bring out the impact at the time of the shot. I am of course not always successful. This image is one of those I go back to from time to time because it was not quite what I wanted at the time. I am still unsure of how to do it better in-camera. One day perhaps.

[Alison Hewitt Bailey]

@netkonnexion Oh, I come away with a photograph that has been optimised for what I had in my head at the time but as soon as I get it up on the screen more ideas occur. It irks me that I can't do it at the coal-face, so to speak, but maybe this is another stage of learning. But I must be honest and say that I rather enjoy processing even though my processing skills are rudimentary.

[Netkonnexion]

@dulciknit :: Of course you are right that new ideas occur as soon as you see it on screen. We all do that. But for me the ultimate pleasure is to be had from producing a great image from what I visualised at the time of the shot and actually pulling it off as seen in my head. Sadly this state infrequently occurs. LOL.
I was watching MasterPhotographers last night and loved the comment by one of the judges, "You should choose to capture what you want to see". (Or something like that). She meant that the photograph should be SOOC a reflection of what you envisaged prior to the shot and the exposure should be a manifestation of what you visualise - not the scene itself. Well, that is the ideal for me, but sadly not often achieved.

[Alison Hewitt Bailey]

@netkonnexion I see nothing in my head (except for a very occasional, unbidden and momentary flash on a screen that appears out of nowhere). I feel it, hear it maybe (ironically, given the state of my hearing, my auditory memory is excellent) but I see nothing. My alternative to true visualisation does not seem to be capable of much refinement, else surely there would be more improvement by now because of the amount of work and practice I've put in - and enjoyed.
But I will not give up on my photography because of my inner 'seeing' problems. If I continue to need to process, then so be it.

[Alison Hewitt Bailey]

Sorry, hope that doesn't sound rude but it's a bit of an emotive subject for me. I should lighten up. :-)

[Netkonnexion]

@dulciknit - I think we established from your article that we all "see" differently. "Vive la differance!".
Because I see that way and feel that way for me, it does not mean you should feel or behave that way. I think my last line said it all: "Well, that is the ideal for me, but sadly not often achieved."
We all do things our way. And, actually, for each of us, that way is the best way. Your contribution is valued for what you produce - not how you do it! Cheer up. You are great at what you do!

[Alison Hewitt Bailey]

@netkonnexion Thank you. It is love of what I see around me and photography itself that drives what I do and the desire to do it to the best possible standards but, of course there is always the despair as well as the joy and I am still finding the whole lack of visualisation thing a bit difficult to take on board. It's interesting and it explains some of the problems I have in everyday life but it's a slightly bitter pill to swallow.
But I console myself with the thought that it may also be working to my advantage in some way.

[Netkonnexion]

My wife suffers in the same way. But takes consolation in the fact she is a great mathematician and I really struggle in that regard.
Vive la difference!

[Alison Hewitt Bailey]

@netkonnexion That's interesting - mathematics seems to me to be something that requires a visual mindset. However, I've learned that there are professional, artistic people who can't visualise so I guess the same holds true for mathematicians/scientists. In any case, the brain is a wonderfully adaptive organ.
D'accord!