Humble Pie

Hum­ble Pie — © Copy­right 2011 by William Beem

Another Photo Con­cept day and I’m still try­ing to work out my ideas. The phrase “hum­ble pie” popped in my mind, and I have absolutely no expla­na­tion for it at all. Just as quickly, this con­cept appeared. I also had another idea that would’ve required a model, prefer­ably some­one young and com­fort­able bow­ing her head in prayer, but decided that it takes more time to find and coör­di­nate a shoot with some­one than it does to just get a red ging­ham table­cloth and make a place setting.

Part of me won­dered if using text in the image was cheat­ing my intent — to com­mu­ni­cate an idea with a pho­to­graph. Then I fig­ured, what the hell. Some pho­tos have text, some don’t. This one does.

At least, that’s what I thought. I couldn’t find a red ging­ham table­cloth. I even went to the local fab­ric store (where help is also hard to find) and couldn’t find any checker­board cloth at all. In a pinch, I decided to check iStock­Photo and I fount this back­ground. I orig­i­nally thought that I’d expand the pie to cover up the plate, but decided that I liked it this way when I put them together. At least this way, I don’t have to stuff a red ging­ham table­cloth away some­where. I don’t even own a din­ner table.

Oh, and the pie didn’t taste bad, either.