Eyebombing

In my opinion this is the best of your grouped, storytelling photos.. You have a unique style and I immediately recognised the discerning google eyes behind all your eyebombed entries. These sad looking fruit are devastated to find the anti-wrinkle cream has failed to work on one of their number. The semi-circular arrangement of smooth fruit surrounding the diminishing wrinkly fits snugly into the staged frame. I can’t definitely identify the fruit you’ve used, but it doesn’t deter from the fact that you’ve done, what looks like - a plum job!

Some of the strongest entries to this eyebombing challenge were the ones where the photographer placed google eyes on a single inanimate object. I especially like your weird looking entry, which took me a while to figure out, that this, elongated alien-looking face was actually an upside down plastic bottle. Your topsy-turvy idea of turning a bottle on it’s head has resulted in a head-turning composition. Never mind taking you to the leader of your photo’s title - your winning photo is the leader!

Your beautiful backlighting of this eyebombed family of scissors has the feel of a highly, professionally-taken, portrait photo inside a fully-equipped photographic studio. You can feel the silence as the scissors stand to perfect attention at the photographer’s request. When I first saw your cutting-edge photo I immediately thought they were all females. In which case, your untitled photo could have been called ‘The Scissor Sisters’ and, just like the band, you’ve got a hit in your hands with a top ten entry.

The juxtaposition of the straight-edged sponge against the soft round bubbles makes this a strong contrasting image. The complimentary yellow colour against the blue background helps to make the rectangular face leap out of your soap sud background. I love that, together with the eyes on the sponge, you’ve managed to capture hundreds of surrounding bubble-popping eyes

Your google-eyed couple are devastated to find that their empty lives will end up being crushed and recycled just like the discarded pile of their demised fizzy friends. This is a nicely constructed story full of pathos with the awful realisation of what the future holds for the 7-Up and Pepsi Cola cans. It’s incredible what a hard-hitting effect it has when a simple pair of eyes are stuck onto cans of pop - it’s what makes your smashing photo.

It took an incredible amount of imagination to come up with your cleverly perceived eyebombed photo. Your boredom during the Coronavirus lockdown has certainly paid off. Turning the magnifying glass on it’s side and adding a few strategically placed brush strokes, transforms it into a strained weightlifting character, working on his six pack. This is an abs-solutely fabulous photo.

I momentarily froze to look at your pair of google eyes being washed away by ice cold water. You’ve cleverly humanised the melting ice cubes into an open-mouthed chin below the floating eyes, magically creating something out of nothing. I wonder if it was a result of experimenting too long under hot studio lights or if you intentionally melted the ice? Either way your photo is a brilliant, watered-down concept.

Your placement of google eyes on a white cauliflower has cleverly turned the white vegetable into a cute-looking grazing sheep. Your comparatively low f-stop choice has sufficiently blurred the back of the fluffy farm animal to allow the face and eyes to remain in sharp focus. This is a simple, effective and not a (baa baa) bad interpretation of the brief.

This is a side-splittingly funny photo of vegetables cut up by watching a fellow vegetable being cut up,. Your humanisation of vegetables bears testament to why vegetarian diets, might not be the kind, alternative-eating choice after all. Your cleverly staged, five-a-day photo, shows a wit as sharp as the kitchen paring knife slicing through the cucumber.

There were very few entries of eyebombs found in their originally intended form as outdoor graffiti. Your photo looks like a scene you might have stumbled across, rather than one that was perhaps intentionally staged by yourself. It reminds me of Edvard Munch’s painting of ‘The Scream’ and you did well to notice (or place) the tiny eyes high up in the tree. I like that you’ve purposely centred the wide, open mouth, to draw the viewer’s attention to the google eyes above it. Well spotted!