SHORTLIES (4)

Michael Edwards

 

I’m going to photograph some cheese today

and so I'll need the cheese to smile

but what do you ask a cheese to say?

  • Author: Michael Edwards (Offline Offline)
  • Published: November 17th, 2020 01:29
  • Category: Unclassified
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  • Goldfinch60

    Ask it to pronounce Dolcelatte.

    I like the design you have made for my coffin Michael, thank you but i will not need it for a while.

    Andy

    • Michael Edwards

      Steer clear of covid but if you do need it I can grant you a royalty free licence.

    • orchidee

      Good write and pic M.
      And - you seen a Cheshire cat? They say smile or grin like one.

      • Michael Edwards

        I've only seen cheshire cheese - it will smile if you say 'pickles' very loudly. Cheese hasn't got very good hearing.

        • orchidee

          Can it be a Double Gloucester cat if we can't find a Cheshire one?

          • Michael Edwards

            One is bad enough without having two of them.

          • L. B. Mek

            erm try a joke, that doesn't chalk: like 'how much weight, in the wisdom of diet cheesecake?'
            if you hear an answer in reply, I doubt the cheese has a smile worth photographing,
            if you sense tiny vibrations: then be ready to snap, before it cracks-up... lol

            like the outline shape of your picture, a new take that adds more depth with its rounded corners, it represents a mental state: ready to 'roll with the waves' and survive till the very end... (at least that's my feeble take)

            • Michael Edwards

              I prefer to gorge on Cheddar - enough to turn the Danish Blue.

            • ANGELA & BRIAN

              Brian here ~ Gut Morgan Onkel Andy ~ You have opened a Gorganzolas Box with a mention of C*E*S* ! In our College - PHOTOGRAPHY - is rightly classified as APPLIED SCIENCE not ART ! We were organising a PHOTO BROCHURE for the Catering Department who is very proud of its *PLANCHE a FROMAGE* ! When the Chef had arranged the Cheeses for the Fotoshoot ~ I solomly addressed them and requested their best CHEESY SMILE ! I swear they all responded and it has *Pride of Place* in the Brochure ~ AMEN. My MANTRA in all things cullinary is always *ASK & You will RECEIVE* Love the Visual - nice pattern for a Cheeseboard ~ think about it ! I have a Poem about CHEESEBOARDS for later !

              Blessings & Prayers to Jeanne & Yourself
              Love Angela Brian Smokey 💛💛💛

              • Michael Edwards

                Photograhy an applied science - well yes in the technical sense but if you don't have an artists eye you won't be a good photographer.

              • dusk arising

                Firstly before i read your post, dammit thats a really appealing piece of artwork today ME.
                Just read your comment about the artists eye in photography... so true. With my beat up old pentax and cheapo darkroom i showed those boys who had all the expensive gear a thing or two. Catier Bresson was a great teacher.

                Say cheese of course..... if i take a pic of you and ask you to say michael, immediately before your next breath there will be an expression i want to capture.

                • Michael Edwards

                  Thanks dusk - this one of the last of my fan-like phase - they do take a lot of concentration.
                  As for cheese the comments have inspired me to write another one in the same vein (blue vein ?) - will post it some time.

                  • dusk arising

                    Lets hope it's another cracker (barrel).



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