La Vignette---A Photo Challenge

Bathroom Window.

The photo challenge this week was a little bit of a cheeky one.

To show the deceptive/clever, concealed/artistic take on the vignette in blogging.

I think we all use the vignette. We photograph a perfectly staged snipped of our home or garden, dinner table or birthday cake, even our children.  A peek.  A keyhole view.

And who really wants to see beyond?  Do we need the nitty gritty? Or do we need to escape and see lovely things, magazine style.

To illustrate how a vignette conceals the overall picture, I challenged you to photograph a vignette. Then step back.  Show the big picture.  I thought it would be a fun exercise.

To illustrate my point.  Look at this first vignette.  A pretty corner of a window with 2 soft seashells and a pale ballet pink bottle of lovely perfume. 

What images does this conjure up for you?

Do you picture a pure white vanity, an old claw foot tub with pink soaps and fluffy white towels and a White on White design book on a little vintage table beside the tub?

Here's the reality.  This is my bathroom reno that is nowhere near finished.

No fixtures, no lights, no tub. 

Just full up with all the parts for the room, and waiting for the Never Ending Bathtub Journey to end and the tub to arrive so everything can be plumbed in and then the vanity installed. 

And here's a vignette taken in my kitchen.  It looks calm and like the kettle is on for a relaxing cup of tea.

Absolutely NOT. 

I am putting on an Indian Feast tomorrow night so I have bread rising, the teapot out for the contractor, the lunch bits still out and I am sitting in the office typing this. 

Now I could put this picture alone on a post and talk about my vintage farm table or my Organic dinner I am about to cook, and you would think it a fairly nice scene and likely picture the rest of the kitchen to be similar.

WHEN IN FACT

I had to push the rest of the rubbish over to the left just to get a photo. This table has a few permanent fixtures....the tape measure and calculator, hubby's newspaper, usually a half full wine bottle, mail, keys, salt and pepper and whatever else lands here for the day. This is one of the worst areas of my house....a real dumping ground

So things are not what they appear.  We can style our homes in a certain way, artistically and creatively

giving our blog readers an impression.

Maybe a lot of your homes are perfect and your vignette could be any part of it,
 but mine definitely is NOT.

Thank you for joining us.  The Linky Tool is below. Next week our challenge is

FESTIVE

It could be a meal, you, your home, whatever the conjures up an impression of FESTIVE to you.