Personal Still Life

For this brief we had to take three to four different objects that we thought represented our personalities, while having a background that did the same and was neither plain black or white, and create a still life.

I chose to have a photo of myself on my first city winner. This showed two things, one, that horse racing and horses in general, are a big part of who I am, and two, that I am interested in photography, even though it wasn't one of my own photos.
I then chose the little cat statue because I love my cat, as well as the rest of my animals, very much, and they are one of the biggest and most significant parts of my life.
Next were the connecting charms; these represent my fiance and I as they were my gift to him as a symbol of our engagement, because I proposed to him and wanted something that was a little different and more masculine than a ring. The puzzle shaped pieces are a nice touch, too, for obvious reasons. I also think that the reasons for including this particular item is quite plain to see.
Ah the spoons. There is a thing in my family that started many years ago now, with my dad, where he would take a teaspoon from a place that he got coffee from, if he wasn't happy with the service. It started out because we didn't have enough teaspoons at home, but has now escalated and turned into a big joke, mostly just between dad and I. So whenever I go travelling to nice places or special events, I take a beautiful silver spoon as a souvenir and get it engraved with the particular details. The two spoons in this picture are from Hawaii '08 and New York in '09. They represent my closeness to my family and special occasions.
Finally, the movie tickets represent my love of cinema, movies and television in general, my fiance and I go to the movies at least once a week.

It took a fair bit of playing around with a few different objects; shoes, for example, I do love shoes. When I finally decided on the pieces that I was going to use, there was then the task of making them look good together. I think that the overall composition works fairly well, but I shot this outside and it was a reshoot at the last minute on a cloudy day, which really drained the colours from the background photo. The colour is probably the only part of the final outcome that I'm not 100% happy with.

Basically, this is me in 'still life'.