# Help me name these... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 14, 2007, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-these/400075 "2007-04-14T06:42:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-these/400075/21 "2007-04-14T21:03:02Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] To that end, I’m going to add another. This one is a photograph, which I am also entering into the show. And yes, it’s my son again: **[Photo Needs A Name](http://gallery.opalcat.com/gallery/BlackandWhitePhotography/Photography_reading?full=1)** [/QUOTE] Illumination ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-these/400075/22 "2007-04-14T21:12:16Z")
I think knowing that the pictures are of the artist’s son would be useful to the viewer. So perhaps: Son Set Son Rise Son Shine Son Light I don’t know, may be too “punny”… The black and white photo made me think of how my children look when they are exhausted and just fall asleep after a long day at school followed by sport or music practice. So, perhaps, After School? ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-these/400075/23 "2007-04-15T00:57:33Z")
1. Which ever way the Wind Blows, or Which way does the wind blow…he is pointing, after all. 2. Forbidden Light ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-these/400075/24 "2007-04-15T01:37:45Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] I really love getting all of these suggestions. It is helpful, plus it is very interesting to see what other people get out of a picture. To that end, I’m going to add another. This one is a photograph, which I am also entering into the show. And yes, it’s my son again: **[Photo Needs A Name](http://gallery.opalcat.com/gallery/BlackandWhitePhotography/Photography_reading?full=1)** Btw, I just got home from having all of these framed.. they look so spiffy framed! [/QUOTE] That looks like the definition of ‘reverie’ to me. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-these/400075/25 "2007-04-15T02:09:41Z")
Lost In A Book ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-these/400075/26 "2007-04-15T03:04:53Z")
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster] That looks like the definition of ‘reverie’ to me. [/QUOTE] I like this… perhaps “Afternoon Reverie” ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-these/400075/27 "2007-04-15T03:10:33Z")
What do you think of this for the candle pic: “The Search for Enlightenment”? ---
**Author:** ![BobPi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@BobPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobPi)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-these/400075/28 "2007-04-15T03:29:05Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] [first one](http://gallery.opalcat.com/gallery/WinterSilhouette/winter_silhouette_day5?full=1) [second one](http://gallery.opalcat.com/gallery/Candlelight/candle_day4?full=1) [/QUOTE] For the first, I thought “I didn’t do it” ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-these/400075/29 "2007-04-15T03:41:03Z")
I can’t quite come up with names that capture this, but I’m intrigued by his relationship to the light in the two paintings: in the first, he’s surrounded by it, and in the second, he has it contained. Perhaps someone can come up with a wonderful way of expressing this. Very cool paintings. For the photograph, I was going to suggest “Afternoon.” You’ve captured my favorite afternoon activity in that photograph. Love it. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-these/400075/30 "2007-04-15T03:43:04Z")
That moment, and capturing it, were a total fluke. I had been outside taking pictures of anything that looked interesting, trying to fill up rolls of film for my photography class. I came inside and he was curled up reading, and I just snapped that one photo, on a whim. I didn’t think it would come out because it was so backlit. It was, by far, the best photo I took that day. ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-these/400075/31 "2007-04-15T13:32:02Z")
1. Evening discovery. Night in the city. You must have seen it too! Every child should have the memory of at least one long-after-bedtime walk. 1. Tiger tiger burning bright. Throwing light upon the subject. Come forward in the lantern light. All is still and calm. 1. Lost in a book. Hidden afternoon. In the arms of the chair. To rest, absorbed. And there I sit, reading old things, of knights and lorn damsels, while the wind sings. In a chair well known. ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-these/400075/32 "2007-04-15T13:43:08Z")
1. Awakening (great pic by the way) ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-these/400075/33 "2007-04-15T13:44:50Z")
1. “Daddy’s home” 2. “Imagination” ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-these/400075/34 "2007-04-15T15:05:30Z")
In the photograph, do you know what book he was reading? The book title might make an interesting photo title, say “The Three Musketeers” or something. Because it was such a random picture (not posed), the important thing is the book… your son was so absorbed in it, and everything else just happened to join together around it to make it a good picture. I don’t really know about the two paintings, though they are really really good. ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-these/400075/35 "2007-04-15T15:31:07Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] I like this… perhaps “Afternoon Reverie” [/QUOTE] I like that a lot [QUOTE=OpalCat] What do you think of this for the candle pic: “The Search for Enlightenment”? [/QUOTE] A bit much. How’s about ‘The Search’? Or maybe ‘The Searcher’? ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-these/400075/36 "2007-04-15T15:49:18Z")
“The Search for Enlightenment in the Face of the American Education System” heh ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-these/400075/37 "2007-04-15T16:13:21Z")
For the photo: “Off on another Journey” ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-these/400075/38 "2007-04-15T16:26:46Z")
A Child’s Parting and Within the Flame ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-these/400075/39 "2007-04-15T17:24:57Z")
The reading photo says Sunday afternoon to me. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-these/400075/40 "2007-04-15T17:52:57Z")
1. Cold Night In Hell 2. Glow-boy I am having a hard time with the first painting - I really like it, but it’s discombobulating me to picture such a cold day with such hot colours. If that’s the effect you were going for, very good job. (I actually love the first painting, but I would never buy a print because it has a human in it. I can’t stand humans in my art.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-these/400075.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-these/400075.md?page=3)