The Daily Shoot 96

On Friday, February 19 (#ds96), the Daily Shoot had an nigh-on impossible assignment: "Symbols can be simple, ornate, plain, or colorful. Make a photo of a symbol that represents or stands for something else." I was completely and utterly lost as to what to do for this one, and I have to say, a lot of the other photographers had a similar problem.

A symbol that represents something else? What does that even mean? All symbols have intrinsic "meaning", for example this symbol: A, represents an upper case a. Well, duh, right? So, I was assuming that the symbol I should photograph should have a "primary meaning" that everyone understands, but because of the way it's photographed, because of the lighting or ambience or background, because of its color or texture or flair, it has a completely different secondary meaning, the "something else". Maybe I was over-analyzing the task, but I was unhappy with what I eventually did.

So: lots of symbols here, but the A, apart from being a capital a, has the distinctive flash serif of the Audi range. So it's both an A and represents Audi. Right? Over-analyzing or what?

(And yes, it's my car, hence the other two symbols: the Union Jack and the flag of St George. So, an Englishman drives this car. Bit thin, don't you think? Mind you, it was fun to drive around for a day a remarkably dirty car apart from a very clean polished A3 logo...)

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