You're drunk. Please get off the table. You are EMBARASSING me!

[Radtech1]

Boy! And who among us hasn't heard that at least a couple dozen times.

As I was looking over the shots from my last trip to Seattle, I saw that and that familiar refrain went through my head. I just had to laugh. Somewhere near Pioneer Square.

Critique and Comments very welcome.

Rad

Canon G9 f/4, 1/125, 400 iso, 10mm

[PhotosGuy]

I might have spread that out a little: move the table to the left & the chair on the right to the right a bit. And who among us hasn't heard that at least a couple dozen times. Who keeps telling you that, Rad? ;)

Edited to use smaller simple words.

[corkneyfonz]

Photos which try to convey comedy are very difficult to pull off. If you contitnue to pursue this theme you'll be disappointed, mainly because if a picture needs explaning then it's not worth hearing.

[jetcode]

This image could have been about Katrina and the relationship between rich and poor, the table being the water level, the poor under water, the rich above water, etc.

[scorpio_e]

Every picture tells a story and in this case you do have to explain it. Still an interesting shot.

[Radtech1]

Boy! And who among us hasn't heard that at least a couple dozen times. Who keeps telling you that, Rad? ;)

Oh, ex-wives, ex-girlfriends, ex-employers, ex-friends, estranged family, you know - the usual.

[Radtech1]

I might have spread that out a little: move the table to the left & the chair on the right to the right a bit.

They weren't my table and chairs to move. We were in Pioneer Square (Seattle) and Marcia was in a bookstore. The rain had paused, so I stepped out to see if there was anything to shoot. I went around the corner, and all by themselves was a table, a chair on the table, another chair, and a wreath. "Now that's arbitrary" I thought, so I took the shot.

I suppose that I could have "separated" them a bit by shifting my position to the left a bit. I don't remember if there was anything (wall, street, car, whatever) that prevented me from moving, so that point will have to remain moot.

I was toying with the idea of cropping. I tried cropping the left, but that took away the emphatic stop that the corner of the wall provides. Cropping on the left took away the solitude of these items (by leaving open the possibility that these are some of many). So in the end, I left it as shot. Two chairs, a table, a wreath and an edge.

Edited to use smaller simple words.

Oh, c'mon - impress me with your circumlocution.

Photos which try to convey comedy are very difficult to pull off. If you contitnue to pursue this theme you'll be disappointed, mainly because if a picture needs explaning then it's not worth hearing.

:confused: I don't see it as trying to convey comedy. It is strangely arbitrary and random, yes, but comedy - not so much. But thank you for the advice.

This image could have been about Katrina and the relationship between rich and poor, the table being the water level, the poor under water, the rich above water, etc.

Finally - someone gets it! ;)

Every picture tells a story and in this case you do have to explain it. Still an interesting shot.

Thanks for recognizing it as interesting. I don't think it tells a story, though. If anything, it asks one - Why?

Thanks one and all for the comments - anyone else?

Rad

[PhotosGuy]

They weren't my table and chairs to move. We were in Pioneer Square (Seattle) and Marcia was in a bookstore. The rain had paused, so I stepped out to see if there was anything to shoot. I went around the corner, and all by themselves was a table, a chair on the table, another chair, and a wreath. "Now that's arbitrary" I thought, so I took the shot.
My first instinct is to have moved them a couple of inches & got the shot. (Easier to apologize than to ask permission.) ;)
If I needed to do more, I'd have tried to ask the owner.

[beeng]

I thought it was funny. :P
Partly because I saw the title and was expecting some hilarious drunk people on tables.