No, this isn't some kind of projective psychological test.
I took the attached picture, which has been rejected by almost every stock company I submitted it to, while some of my pictures that I consider far inferior have been accepted.
In a nutshell, the editors tell me that this picture is unsaleable because no designer would want a picture of broken telegraph wires. I maintain that the picture could very easily be used to illustrate a broad range of ... I'll just say "things," so as not to put any ideas into people's heads.
I'm just asking for people to suggest a few ideas that come to their minds when they they see this picture, or a few ways in which it could be used. In other words, what could it be used to symbolically represent?
I have my own ideas, which I'll list later.
The editors had no complaints about the technical quality of the picture in it's full-res version. They basically say that it's a very nice picture of broken telegraph wires, as pictures of broken telegraph wires go; but that no one would need such a picture. They don't see the symbolic potential that I do.
So... am I crazy, or are they dense?
Thanks,
Rich
I took the attached picture, which has been rejected by almost every stock company I submitted it to, while some of my pictures that I consider far inferior have been accepted.
In a nutshell, the editors tell me that this picture is unsaleable because no designer would want a picture of broken telegraph wires. I maintain that the picture could very easily be used to illustrate a broad range of ... I'll just say "things," so as not to put any ideas into people's heads.
I'm just asking for people to suggest a few ideas that come to their minds when they they see this picture, or a few ways in which it could be used. In other words, what could it be used to symbolically represent?
I have my own ideas, which I'll list later.
The editors had no complaints about the technical quality of the picture in it's full-res version. They basically say that it's a very nice picture of broken telegraph wires, as pictures of broken telegraph wires go; but that no one would need such a picture. They don't see the symbolic potential that I do.
So... am I crazy, or are they dense?
Thanks,
Rich