Well, attendance was not great, but most of the cool kids showed up, anyway. Please excuse my attempts at titles...
@Irene McC: Together, At Last - The well manicured hands of the bride and groom on their wedding day –– Promises made. Side by side they face the future. We use hands to make connections with others in all sorts of ways.
@MiguelATF: Muddy Hands, Seen Clearly - At first glance it could be read as being about the mud but, if you think about it, it deals with the major part hands play in satisfying our curiosity. Idle hands, and all that.
@ricks: Concern - The hands are center stage and do most of the heavy lifting but there’s a lot of context teasing the viewer. The use of (presumably) a paint filter, the seemingly stretched perspective and the low point of view help to compound the mystery and give the image a cinematic, dynamic edginess.
@Simonix: Infant’s Grasp - No parent can ever forget the flood of tenderness released when grasped by an infant thus. Ah, memories!
@donlaw: Hands - A visual pun on two meanings of
hand - the appendage vs. the “hand” to which two are typically appended. All hands on deck, many hands make light work.
@Herbert Hound: Dislocated - you feel the pain, we cringe in sympathy. Never doubt the capacity of inanimate objects to hate. It’s pretty certain that most of us will at some time of our lives be forced to go without the full use of one of our hands for (hopefully) short periods.
@pictogramax: Running Out - monochrome portrait possibly not of tenacity –– I WILL get it all! –– but of languor. What preoccupation keeps him from taking a drag? My father’s cigarettes would develop equally long ashes but untended, in the ash tray, while he worked. Or is this an idiosyncratic skill? Running out - with all deliberate speed.
@HenryBH: 54th Anniversary - They’re facing each other, perhaps wondering together at the passage of time, “Look what we did!” The years have taken their toll but –– Promises kept. A fitting bookend to @Irene McC’s entry.
I loved them all but the one that I kept seeing in my mind's eye, away from the monitor, was ricks' Concerned. I invite
@ricks to run the next challenge. If this is not possible then my second most favored is
@pictogramax's Running Out.