Replacement - Shocking

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I went out and took photos for 02/04/2010 and the selected picture from that day is posted here. When I got home I found that UK photographer/blogger Elizabeth Halford had issued a weekend challenge on her blog - make a creative image of a power point...

"As per the laptop screen, Elizabeth Halford's first weekend challenge had to show an electrical outlet. I thought through ideas connected with power points (that's what we call them in Australia), and thought of electricity being wasted, and how this could be visualised as leaking out of the power point. I figured it'd look like water and so grabbed a glass of water and applied it to the outlet.
As you can see, this didn't work so well."

This image is a replacement for the lack of one posted on this date.

In preparation for a tramp I formatted the memory card, before realising that the photos I'd taken on the 28th had not been uploaded. I'd grabbed a few snapshots of my family standing on the balcony as the sun set. They were pretty last minute grab shots anyway, but I'm disappointed. I might work out some sort of make-up deal, but I don't want to extend the project into 2011, and I'm not sure how I'll work around the plan to require only one photo per day, so as to force selection.

So using this image here seemed like a good way to manage things.

The photo was lit by tungsten balanced energy saver bulbs.

Gimp was used to add "water" both dribbling down from the outlet and pooling from the cup. The cup stuff is barely visible even when there's not a water mark over it, since the cup was out of focus. The stuff coming out of the outlet is a pretty weak attempt, but it was about 2am at the time, and I just wanted to go to bed. I'm going to call it a learning experience, but all I really learned was that I don't know how to add dribbling water into a photo in post.

It occured to me afterwards that I should have added some scorch marks to the power point. Ahh well.