I'm not sure there is a way to accomplish what you want to do. There are things that are important to individuals--you, me, any single person--that lack value in the eyes of others. The old joke around baby photos is built on this idea: show me 100 pictures of 100 babies and they'll become a blur. A baby is beautiful to those who have an investment in the child. Your blue, ceramic bird has no value to me. Had you rendered it differently--a different angle, a different level of reality, any difference that would have led your viewer away from saying, "Yep, that's a blue, ceramic bird"--it might have been valuable to me. As it is, it's a blue, ceramic bird. The exposure is fine. I rather like the highlights reflecting from its surface. The focus is sharp. But it's a damn blue, ceramic bird. I don't know the story behind it; there's is no way I can decipher its value. It's a nicely focused, well-exposed piece of ceramic. It might have been pried from the dead hands of a Hungarian gypsy, but to me it's what you present: a blue, ceramic bird.

If you want to bring me a solution and not a problem, build your image so that it tells a story. Shoot the blue, ceramic bird with a slightly out-of-focus wedding photo in the background. Shoot the blue, ceramic bird sitting on the stomach of an obviously pregnant woman. Shoot the blue, ceramic bird resting in the paws of a cat. Do anything with the blue, ceramic bird; but don't shoot it with a nondescript background and expect your viewer to come up with a story that makes a work of art out of your non-communicating image of a blue, ceramic bird.

Does that help?