Is it a bit 'Rude' ?

pentaxpete · May 6, 2013

Here is a Still-life I took to use up some film and I have been told it 'looks a bit RUDE' -- I was innocent at the time of taking ---

Still-Life by pentaxpete, on Flickr
Hasselblad 501CM + 180mm f4 CFi Sonnar T*, 2002 outdated Fuji NPC 160 film rated 100 ASA, processed myself in C41, Bowens Flash + reflector, Epson 1650 flatbed scanner, Vuescan, PhotoShop 7

Poisson Du Jour · May 6, 2013

I do like the colours. Depending on one's imagination, it conjours up an image of a couple of things.

paul_c5x4 · May 6, 2013

The yellow capsicum has a passing resemblance to a backside I saw in town over the weekend. Perhaps Esther Rantzen could make more of it....

markbarendt · May 6, 2013

Good thing you didn't use B&W.

Ghostman · May 6, 2013

Definitely. Wonderful!

winger · May 6, 2013

Well, it would have gotten you an A in the photo class I took in college. We discovered early on that the instructor would praise highly any image with even the slightest hint of a phallic symbol. I wouldn't call yours "rude," but it is a bit suggestive.

dotyj · May 6, 2013

I think it's fantastic! Rude? Probably not, but certainly something to whisper about to your wife to see if she giggles.

Darkroom317 · May 6, 2013

winger said:
Well, it would have gotten you an A in the photo class I took in college. We discovered early on that the instructor would praise highly any image with even the slightest hint of a phallic symbol. I wouldn't call yours "rude," but it is a bit suggestive.

Sounds like my photo professor. We have an art art history professor who is even worse. Columns in paintings are phallic symbols to her.

mark · May 6, 2013

Look at the person who made the comment and ask them to explain what they see because you see vegetables.

benjiboy · May 6, 2013

winger said:
Well, it would have gotten you an A in the photo class I took in college. We discovered early on that the instructor would praise highly any image with even the slightest hint of a phallic symbol. I wouldn't call yours "rude," but it is a bit suggestive.

What a bizarre mental image I just had of somebody playing the phallic cymbal in a rock band

BradS · May 6, 2013

Oh my! not rude but...Wonderful.
Thanks for sharing.

Steve Smith · May 6, 2013

Reminds me of my mum putting up decorations for Christmas or birthdays. Balloons were always in groups of three. Two round and one long one.

Steve.

Jeff Kubach · May 6, 2013

Rude maybe, nice colors though.

Jeff

Terry Christian · May 6, 2013

To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a squash is just a squash.

mesantacruz · May 6, 2013

haha, i like it,

not rude by a long shot, unless you're a prude.
funny that someone should consider this, rude.

Now, lets consider a nude
perhaps in the wrong context, crude.
but never if ever, rude.

composition is key with food
fruits and veggies can allude,
but to censor is to obtrude.

and there is nothing more rude.

Mainecoonmaniac · May 6, 2013

You can't control what people think when they look at your photos. Obviously, the person saying the photo is "rude" haven't been getting any . You know I mean veggies right .

NormanV · May 6, 2013

Edward Weston had some of his pepper photos banned by a gallery as they thought that they were rude.

hdeyong · May 6, 2013

Rude???? I saw a cannon with balloon tires. What's rude about that?

pentaxuser · May 6, 2013

paul_c5x4 said:
The yellow capsicum has a passing resemblance to a backside I saw in town over the weekend. Perhaps Esther Rantzen could make more of it....

Now that reference to the "old Esther Sunday night show" really ages you and me. I even remember her as Bernard Braden's apprentice

pentaxuser

lxdude · May 6, 2013

mesantacruz said:
haha, i like it,

not rude by a long shot, unless you're a prude.
funny that someone should consider this, rude.

Now, lets consider a nude
perhaps in the wrong context, crude.
but never if ever, rude.

composition is key with food
fruits and veggies can allude,
but to censor is to obtrude.

and there is nothing more rude.

And if we allow it to happen, we're screwed.

Thanks for the verse. You clearly have diverse and versatile abilities.

paul_c5x4 · May 6, 2013

pentaxuser said:
Now that reference to the "old Esther Sunday night show" really ages you and me.

<phttt> Been watching some old clips on youtube and iplayer

Truzi · May 6, 2013

Even though I am not a fan of of butternut squash, I'd not consider it rude.

MattKing · May 7, 2013

I don't think it is rude ...

But for some reason, I've a desire to create a limerick.

pentaxpete · May 7, 2013

GREAT Replies !

Many thanks for all your Great Replies !! Even a Poem ! I will support this part of the site more -- although I support the 'Groups; I never get any replies ! Peter PS it's SUNNY here at LAST !

dpurdy · May 7, 2013

There is quite a lot of work called "Rude Food" or "Rude Fruit". It has become a category of it's own. Butternut squash has been used a lot. It is all done in humor. There is even at least one book out on such images. When someone said your photo was a bit rude he probably was referencing the cliche of rude food. Of course the orange pepper is perfectly placed to look like testicles to the erect penis squash. The red pepper I guess is red hair? Is it offensive? Probably to someone. It would seem more a joke to most. Is it rude? Yes in that it fits in that whole group of rude food photos. Maybe APUG should make a special gallery for rude food photos so we can all have fun with it. Maybe an APUG group should be created for lovers of rude food.
Dennis

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