at the risk of 'not meeting challenge requirments' ONCE AGAIN, here is my entry. i hope you enjoy, and i hope it is an 'acceptable' creative outlook on the theme.
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IMHO for a shot like this to work, you need to have a clean stove top. The rust and grease take away from the overall impact of the shot.
TC
PS: Nice originality for the theme!
Your cooker looks a little like mine, needs cleaning!
The background has a refelction that distracts me from the subject. The point of focus appears to be the front of the ring and I'd have liked to have seen it on the labe. A well cropped picture and I like the idea of fire, what is the bottle?
The composition is good, but I cant decide whether I like the burner being 'dirty' or not - it does add color and some texture. I think the abstractness of it may have been better without the kettle too. As for meeting the challenge - well it's not fire but is heat so I'll give it an out of the box vote.
I see you house keep about as well as I do.....nice detail, no fire but what are you going to do....heat, flame, what is the difference. Put a piece a paper close to that baby and it is going to ignite, so the effect is the same. Guess the purists are hammering you by now....I won't.
I think you could have been a little more daring here. The red coils don't even look that hot. For a fire challenge, I would expect flames or heat to be the dominant subject. Here, the esspresso label and the grease spots on the burner compete for your attention.
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