Tequila Sunrise

I found this exercise of distilling information hard but very valuable. It made me think of the key elements needed within an image in order to communicate an idea or concept - in this case a tequila sunrise cocktail. In this I think capturing the gradient of the cocktail, as well as the shape of the glass was the most important in order for these images to be effective. Some of them work reasonably well, however others seem to be too obvious and descriptive. I found it hard to differentiate between making them too overcomplicated and then too simple - I think the line can sometimes be very thin, and crossing it can become blurred... sometimes I think you begin to misunderstand how others may interpret information and become lost in making things so sleek and simple it doesn't mean anything anymore.