We have this chair we love. L O V E !
It is an antique, and we have had it repaired at least three times. When someone (usually company . . .) sits in it and puts their weight on the arms to stand up, it is just too much for this dear old chair to bear. CRACK! The last time this happened, we let the chair sit unrepaired in an extra room for over a year. We recently had it repaired again, but we just couldn’t bear the thought of an unsuspecting soul sitting in it and splintering it again. And oh yes, we would care about injuring the guest as well!
Why do we care so much about this old chair? My mother loved it- and there is a story.
When I was a child, my mother admired it so much when she visited a friend’s house that the friend finally presented it to her as a gift. Mother had it recovered with some old needlepoint that either my grandmother or great-grandmother had done years earlier, and it was a beautiful addition to her living room. And it remained unbroken until it came to live with us. . .
I also have some vague memory of the owner of the chair being a distant relative and have the intention of solving this genealogical mystery, but that’s another story.
And oh yes- the topic for today is ARMS! So here are the infamous splinter-prone arms of the chair!
f/3.5, .8sec, ISO 200, 85mm
I took many photos of the chair today- using the tripod with a long exposure. I used custom white balance (good girl!), varied angles and aperture settings for different depth of field. I took shots where the needlepoint was in the background, either in focus or blurred. I ended up going with my first photo with no needlepoint- and then thought it looked better with a black and white action added (meaning my custom white balance was for nothing!). Oh well. . .
melinda anderson photography 
I love this photo. The depth of field and black and white processing are perfect for the subject. And the story is delightful. I hope the chair remains splinter-free from now on.