Man, this is a really big swing. People are either going to love or hate this, I imagine. I feel like I'm probably breaking some written and unwritten rules but something about this ordinary scene at my father-in-law's tool shed in late afternoon direct sunlight just spoke to me this way for this challenge. I hope the invitation to think outside the box includes the invitation to lean a little metatextual with the subject and to stretch (or outright break) some of the conventions of classical still life.
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the shadow of the phone suggests it's another tool.
That's exactly what I was going for -- I'm tickled that it came through. I would have been content to leave myself out of the shadow, but I felt like I needed enough of my torso to convey that the what you're seeing is a hand holding a phone and not some other random tool. So this is something of a commentary on way digital "ordinary tools" have in many ways supplanted but not completely replaced reliable, analog ones like these. :-)
Then again, maybe the biggest "tool" in this image IS me? :-P
Gotta love it. And I will admit that I'm not big on the use of frames (inside the photo), but I must keep an open mind just in case something like this comes along. I hope you print it. A definite keeper.
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