Spoon Photo Trending on 52Frames

It’s been a while since one of my photos has been selected as a top 52 on 52Frames. And it’s also been a while since any of my photos were picked on the instagram site. I know my photos will never be in the top three out of 2500-3000 submitted weekly. But since April when a fellow framer told me that my photo was trending on the 52Frames website, I have been checking the website at least every day to see if the same would happen. And it has. My photo has trended usually on the second day after the album opens. And this week was no exception. I don’t know what the criteria is but am always happy to see that it gets that far. Maybe because the effort to create the image is usually intense. It’s not photographically the best, but I do spend a lot of time every week creating some sort of composite image. This week the subject was “spoon” and I made a spoon vase and spoon flowers out of white plastic spoons to make a bouquet. This entry was composed of about 42 layers! I have to say I was disapppinted that it didn’t make the top 52 because the comments I got on it from all over the world were just so inspiring. If nothing else that what really makes it all worth while. 

52Frames Spoon Weekly Photo Challenge

The subject this week for the 52Frames photo challenge was “spoon.” So we went to the grocery store to pick up a pack of white plastic spoons. Anything silver reflects me and the iPhone so I needed another option. I almost cut my fingers breaking the stems off of the spoons. The idea was to try and make a spoon vase. That was a trick. First I tried glue but then realized thin strips of scotch tape would do. This was a serious craft project! The “vase” could also be used as a pineapple. But a real vase requires flowers, so the spoons were configured in to “daisy shapes” and the yellow center was taken from a real daisy garden. I also tried making the real daisy garden in to a spoon daisy garden. These same spoon daisies were used to create the spoon flowers for the vase. For the vase bouquet option a gold backdrop was added with a transparent leafy layer to add some depth. Then a black backdrop was tried and it looked regal. But eventually a plain white backdrop made most sense. The plastic spoon stems were removed and were replaced with painted in green stems that made the scene more real. A real spoon was added to the bouquet but was removed. I spent so much time on this composite image and kept making so many tweaks along the way. I think the end result actually looks more real than a project so I’m hoping it might do well this week. But one never knows until the comments come in and the selections are made. Each week starts with a lot of confusion regarding which way to go but by the end something finally pops in my head. I never know how it will end up until I get there.