Recently discovered: coffee makers contain bits-n-pieces that are fun to photograph. Even if said machine does little to improve upon the taste of a glass of Coke. Have a great weekend, everyone!
Charlie Mackenzie: “Excuse me, miss… there seems to be a mistake… I believe I ordered the large cappuccino. HELLO! Look at the size of this thing!”
– Mike Myers – So I Married an Axe Murderer
About this image: digital photograph (Canon 300D) lightly modified (and slightly over-cooked) in Adobe Photoshop
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Your very creative, you can capture a drama inside a coffee maker parts. The tiny holes and ray of lights lift the image to the next level. Cheers Nonoy Manga
Thank you so much – what a kind thing to say!
It was all luck, really! I just happened to hold this up to the light one day when I was washing it to get a better look (and to see what it might look like)!
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Why were you washing the coffee maker if you only drink coke. How did it get dirty? Don’t leave us hangin’ here Robert…you have some ‘splainin’ to do.
Hahaha…
I might have knocked the thing over trying to get at the Coke…
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Spots of light! Very nice, Robert, a cool abstract.
Thank you very much, S.E! I happened to notice that one day I was cleaning it and held it up to the window to get a better look! An unexpected and happy find!
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Coke???
Do you mean to say you put Coke through you coffee machine???
That’s so crazy that it just might work…
Hahaha… well… I haven’t tried it yet. I’m too attached to my Coke. I’d hate to waste the stuff. Liquid gold, Tony… Liquid gold!
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Cool photo. I like drinking coffee. I drink it every day. 🙂
Thank you very much, sir!
My wife feels the same way!
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My questions have been answered. Annabele drinks the coffee and makes you wash the pot. She must be kin to my wife. I drink coffee too but my wife thinks I should make all the coffee at Gatorhead. If she is goin’ to get up earlier than me (which is rare) she has me to fix up the coffee maker the night before so all she has to do is turn it on.
Hahaha… well, in all honesty it usually doesn’t work out that way… Annabelle is always doing so much around here (virtually everything) if there’s actually one small thing I can do to help out every now and then I only complain about it for an hour or two.
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Annabelle reads your comments don’t she?
HA!
The albatross flies at midnight!
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I would never have guessed what this was.
It’s very abstracted isn’t it, Laura!
Hahaha… coffee maker… stealth-mode!
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Nice! I love my coffee but would never have thought to photograph the parts of the coffee maker! Cool! 🙂
It didn’t really occur to me until I was washing it one day and happened to hold this part up to the light.
A happy accident! Thank you very much, Ms. F!
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I had to go back to the photo after reading some comments, to see the artistic values of light and drama, which is why comments are often so key (thank you, folks with art-eyes), because this shot brought me back immediately to my hope-filled 20s on some other Autumn day when I inherited my mom’s percolator with a basket probably identical to this one. SIG, what a nice feeling. I’m probably too old to say, “Wow, this is cool!” but, wow –this is cool! 🙂
Oh – thank you so very much, C.O.B! One of the nicest things to hear from someone is that they can relate to an image… or that it brought back some memory for them (hopefully a good one)… so this really means a lot! I sincerely appreciate that!
Hahaha… and, well, if dropping an over-aged ‘cool-bomb’ works for me, it should work for others, too, I say! Thank you again!
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Love this image sir. Very intriguing…. off to raid the cupboards!!!
Thanks so much, Astra!
Hahaha… indeed, sir! Indeed!
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“This is like ‘Campbell’s Cup-o-ccino’!”
Also, great image.
Hahahaha…Oh, my sides! Please! Aidez-moi!
Thank you very much, sir!
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I like the repetition of the dots of light.
Now, I’d like a full roasted, half caf, light foam, no whip caramel macchiato please.
Thanks much, Ms. C! I’m happy to hear that, because that’s exactly what drew me to this. I was was attempting to wash the thing and held it up to the light for closer inspection when it struck me. Like a gallon of sudsy water.
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See! You are so good, I suddenly like coffee! Oh wait. I’ve always liked coffee. Well … you make me WANT coffee. 🙂
Hahaha… coffee lovers of the world… chug!
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Is there anything you take a shot of that does not turn out interesting? I love this, it’s a very unique photo, Sig! 🙂
Have a great weekend! 🙂 xo
Thanks so much, Deb!
I had pulled this thing apart to wash in, happened to hold it up to the light and thought… hmmm…
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So you really are a deep thinker… 🙂 Just kidding, I just left from replying to your on the Binky post, and couldn’t resist since you left the opportunity open for me with what you here. And I’m sure that the machine is working much better now, now that your got er all cleaned up too….Have a great weekend, Sig! 🙂 xo
Hahaha… well played, Deb! Yeah… not too much deep thinking around here, really. Lots of caffeine and snack breaks, though – so that has to count for something, right?! 😉
Thanks so much, Deb! I hope that you have a wonderful weekend as well!!!
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Brilliant SiG, a most reflective cup of coffee! And they’re always the best, thank you!
Many thanks, Ms. K!
Hmmm… now that you mention it…
to the kitchen!
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Way cool.
Thank you very much, H.C!
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Excellent. Looks like a set from the movie Metropolis. All those workers were caffeine deprived. 🙂
*shudders*
Caffeine and deprived are two words that never belong in the same sentence!
Thank you so much, sir!
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Now that is something I never noticed on my coffee maker and I am close personal friends with my coffee maker…best friends, actually.
Great shot!
Hahaha…
I knew I should have a included ‘fine’ print disclaimer:
*Actual coffee maker contents may vary… your coffee maker might not contain everything seen here… some ‘bits’ sold separately.*
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OK, I’ve pulled my coffee machine apart and I can’t find a number 2 anywhere . OK, it wasn’t actually my coffee machine but can someone give me instructions on how rebuild the damn thing before the neighbors get home?
Hahahah… these things are more complicated than stuff from IKEA…
I’d recommend the old river dump…
destroy the evidence, Loon! Destroy the evidence!
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On it SIg.
Hahaha… the perfect crime, Loon!
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Nice!!!!!
Thank you very much, R.N.P!
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Very interesting perspective on something pretty mundane.
But I feel trapped!
Thanks, Binky!
And try not to worry too much… this part was much too small for any Wombies to wander into, so I think you should be just fine. And, if not, I’ll be happy to let you out A.S.A.P!
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Hi Inky…I would have never guessed what this is…well, maybe after 101 guesses 😀
You have a great weekend coming up 🙂
Hahaha… ask me what this was in a few years and I probably wouldn’t, either! And I took the photo! Which is to say it’s pretty abstracted, I guess… so I wouldn’t worry about that!
Thank you so much, Mary! And the very same to you!
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You have such a great eye. I would never have looked at a coffeemaker part and thought, Art!
Hahaha… well… I’m not sure if that’s having a great eye or just… um… an ‘interesting’ way of looking at random stuff. But I’ll take the kindness in your comment over my assessment any day. Thanks so much, Madame!
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SIG, I love the little rays of light! I don’t think my coffee maker would look quite like this. You have a great eye! Wonderful artistry here, SIG.
Aw, thanks, B.F!
I’m happy you liked that effect… the light is what caught my attention, too!
You are always so kind, B.F… thank you again!
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Coffee always sheds a little light on things for me. 😀
I feel the same way about Coke, Nancy!
Probably because I don’t function well enough to operate a coffee maker in an un-caffeinated state!
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Your eye for detail amazes me.
You are so kind, Patti! Thank you!
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The image actually makes me think of a telephone receiver (the old kind that were round).
Hey! I can see that, too, J.G! There were a few of those in my house when I was growing up! One was even a nice harvest gold color!
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didn’t I already say this… but you made me say it again… something out of nothing!! viola!! 🙂
Not the kind of thing I’d tire of hearing, Mr. B…
I thank you, sir!
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Have a great weekend Mr. SIG 🙂
That is very kind!
I hope that you had a wonderful weekend as well!
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Coffee machine bits… who’d have thought to shoot that… nice!
Hahaha… there’s got to be some advantage to washing all those dishes, right, Nigel?!
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Another excellent offering SIG and
I hope that you have enjoyed a fun to
extremely wicked weekend 🙂
Androgoth
I can’t complain, my friend!
I hope that you had a hard-rocking weekend as well, sir!
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Excellent shot Bob ,Beautiful image my friend i really like it 🙂
I’m so happy to hear that, Jake!
You are always incredibly kind, sir!
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Do you realize how much talent you really have and what it is. Artists, comic creators, writers, spend hours drawin’, writin’ , paintin’, and agonizing with words and maybe on a good day they get 5 or 6 people to comment. You take a picture of a percolator and it turns our so awesome that you get dozens of people to comment on it. Now that is talent my good friend. Mostly it is because of you being downright awesome.
Aw, man… that’s incredibly kind of you to say, Bo… I sincerely appreciate that, sir… very much!
The folks who stop by here are the best to be found anywhere… I’m not sure how I lucked out like that, but I’m sure happy about it! I always appreciate each and every comment… I know how busy most people are these days… so it really does mean a lot!
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well, you can savour your cook and admire the bits. that way you (and we) get the best of both worlds. thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much for your kind thoughts, P&K!
I appreciate it very much!
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You make such exquisite micros – just love these types of photographs.
That is so kind of you to say, Dishy! Thank you very much!
I think it’s kind of fun to look at details sometimes… and things like this are always fun to photograph, too!
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I love a good macro shot, especially with all of the texture of that “2”. I’m thinking coffee-flavored Coke could actually work, though; try it out for your upcoming food blog.
Hahaha… you know what’s funny… it that my producing a food blog might actually work…
because it would be so awful! It would be like the regretsy of gastronomy.
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Brilliant. Love the patterns in this.
I thank you for that!
I just happens to wonder what kind of images I might be able to pull out of this when I was washing it one day.
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Very creative! I would never know this is a coffee maker! 😀 You are a very good observer.
I was thinking the same thing when I was looking at the pieces, Cristina!
Thank you so very much!
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Interesting Textures and lighting Bob – very nice 🙂
Thank you, sir!
Sometimes I’m kind of surprised by the kind of texture(s) you can pull out of metals / glass, etc… surfaces I tend to think of as being typically flat/smooth.
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Strange how pretty this is!
It was, anyway. It might be kind of dusty at the moment…
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You have an eye for details.
Lovely! Good seen!!
How kind of you to say, Malin! Thank you!
(We’ll say that’s what happened and not that I was stalling when I should have been cleaning the coffee maker… it sounds so much nicer)!
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Hahaha…