Anthropomorphisation.

How nice to have a chance to use this word.
The imbuing of human qualities upon something
nonhuman.

I am often asked what my themes are and I would
say that this is one of them. I recognise that
I often visit this space.

Now I don't get up in the morning and think
today I am going to take a photo of something
and make it look anthropomorphic. It doesn't work
like that. Instead, many of the objects that attract me
enough for me to want to photograph them
just seem to turn out that way. I can't help it.

This gun is an example. It has come out
looking as if it has a personality.