Once again, I have to be Vince's guinea pig / myLot

Rockingham, Australia

September 29, 2022 6:53pm CST

My husband, Vince, is a keen photographer and participates on a few Facebook photographic sites. The theme of one of this week’s challenges is ‘forced perspective’ and this is what he came up with. I often have to be the guinea pig but that’s okay. While he keeps cooking most of our meals, I’m very happy. There are a number of these silos on this farm, and on all the farms around. It is a big crop-growing area here and harvest will start shortly.

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rebelann1949

@rebelann (111073)

• El Paso, Texas

30 Sep 22

I thought it was more or less spring time over there, here it is autumn and harvests are going on all over the place where the corn, cotton and pecans are grown. That's an interesting shot but I don't really get what forced perspective means.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (325333)

• Rockingham, Australia

30 Sep 22

We're in the middle of spring. It seems like we have different harvesting periods or maybe the different crops have different harvest times. With forced perspective, there is no way that I actually under the auger. I guess in some way it's just trick photography like someone holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

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rebelann1949

@rebelann (111073)

• El Paso, Texas

30 Sep 22

Ahhhh, ok, now I get it. I see a lot of those kinds of images online, many refer to them as being photoshopped. When you think about it, if you take a picture of the same subject from different angles it can show different sides to the same thing making the old adage about a picture being worth a thousand words rather silly really.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (325333)

• Rockingham, Australia

1 Oct 22

@rebelann They used to say the camera never lies but that doesn't hold true today.

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Juliaacv

@Juliaacv (48251)

• Canada

29 Sep 22

That is a good shot, he has a really good imagination. We call those bins here, and usually there are several together and a 'leg' that moves the grain from the bin to the shoot so that it can be loaded into the transport truck or in the case of a smaller farm, into wagons to be hauled off to market to sell. My brothers grow corn that is hauled off to the ethanol plant to be made into fuel. They have 2 legs as they have alot of large bins. They have driers on a some of the bins, and the downspouts can transfer grain from 1 bin to another to get the grain dried before shipping it.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (325333)

• Rockingham, Australia

30 Sep 22

It's probably pretty similar here. This is one of four but we didn't want them cluttering up the photo.

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rsa101

@rsa101 (37933)

• Philippines

30 Sep 22

Nice trick photo. Usually the photographers need a lot of imagination to get the right angle of the shoot. Sometimes its hard for me to imagine doing some pose that looks weird but then you take a photo of it is amazing.

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rsa101

@rsa101 (37933)

• Philippines

30 Sep 22

@JudyEv That one is nice just frightening if that stone really rolled down....

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (325333)

• Rockingham, Australia

30 Sep 22

They come up with some good ones, don't they? This shows me holding up a rock all by myself.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (325333)

• Rockingham, Australia

30 Sep 22

@rsa101 I was telling him to hurry up and take the photo!!

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@DaddyEvil (137145)

• United States

30 Sep 22

How did you talk him into doing most of the cooking? I've always wanted someone to cook for me.

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@DaddyEvil (137145)

• United States

30 Sep 22

@JudyEv My cooking is, I'm convinced, what got me two wives... Neither one of them even bothered since I'd do it. I would question your statement but you've got no reason to fib to me.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (325333)

• Rockingham, Australia

30 Sep 22

@DaddyEvil I have never been able to understand how he enjoys cooking. After a stressful day, he'd come home and look forward to cooking a meal. I still don't understand.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (325333)

• Rockingham, Australia

30 Sep 22

He does nearly all the cooking now. He took it up in self-defence.

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Lenore Plassman

@sallypup (57717)

• Centralia, Washington

30 Sep 22

I love the shot. It's fun to see you.

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Lenore Plassman

@sallypup (57717)

• Centralia, Washington

30 Sep 22

@JudyEv You look fine.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (325333)

• Rockingham, Australia

30 Sep 22

I wish I'd pulled my tummy in!!

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99425)

• Atlanta, Georgia

30 Sep 22

An excellent picture of forced perspective.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (325333)

• Rockingham, Australia

30 Sep 22

Thanks. I had to shuffle forward, shuffle back, up a little, not that much - I'm sure you can imagine it all. lol

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99425)

• Atlanta, Georgia

30 Sep 22

@JudyEv I can imagine it. That’s what’s so-neat.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (457298)

• Switzerland

30 Sep 22

This is an interesting perspective. I have always been the guinea pig for my husband and he does not even cook.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (457298)

• Switzerland

1 Oct 22

@JudyEv

I do not want even to imagine him in the kitchen... the Hell to clean his mess.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (325333)

• Rockingham, Australia

1 Oct 22

Oh dear! I struck a much better bargain than you!

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (325333)

• Rockingham, Australia

1 Oct 22

@LadyDuck Vince makes a fair amount of mess but he knows he does and tries to minimise it so I put up with the mess he does make.

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (94747)

• Marion, Ohio

30 Sep 22

That was a great idea for that challenge.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (325333)

• Rockingham, Australia

30 Sep 22

The challenges are good as they make stretch your imagination.

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (12613)

• Ireland

30 Sep 22

@judyev A great forced perspective indeed. Well done Vince and his Guinea Pig.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (325333)

• Rockingham, Australia

30 Sep 22

Someone did a great one of a motor-home and it looked to have a massive TV aerial on the roof - like, a huge aerial. He ssid he'd decided to update his antenna

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solxee

@sol_cee (38223)

• Philippines

30 Sep 22

Haha how much is your talent fee?

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (325333)

• Rockingham, Australia

30 Sep 22

He cooks my meals so that is payment enough for me.

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Ron Rybs

@Ronrybs (17838)

• London, England

30 Sep 22

I do like these forced perspective piccies. I take it that silo thingy is a great deal bigger than it appears

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (325333)

• Rockingham, Australia

30 Sep 22

It is bigger than it appears. I was quite some distance from it and had to shuffle back and forth to get it just right. Here's a photo of one on its own but I guess it still doesn't show the scale. It dispenses its load into a truck so it's pretty big.

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