“Do you want to go photograph some produce?” How was I supposed to respond to this question posed to me early in November by my photography mentor and fellow blogger Cindy Dyer? How exciting can produce be?
I have grown up in a world in which I buy my produce in a supermarket. That produce has been scrubbed and processed and transported from far away. I was pleasantly surprised when Cindy took me to Nalls Produce Center, a local produce market that has a wide variety of items that I have never seen in a supermarket. Who knew, for example, that pumpkins were not always orange with smooth skins?
I was pretty uncertain about how to photograph the produce, so I just concentrated on shapes and colors and textures. It somehow seems appropriate to post this selection of photo on Thanksgiving Day, a day when Americans traditionally celebrate the bounty of the autumn harvest.
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Well you managed to produce some great shots..;-)
Sorry for the pun, well not really..:-)
I love puns…Happy Thanksgiving!
I can sense the start of an annual thanksgiving pumpkin post. Great shots.
Thanks, Lyle. It’s probably easier for me to find pumpkins to photograph than wild turkeys, which seem to be a common subject for this day. Annual traditions have to start somewhere, so next year I’ll have to consider an encore performance, though normally I enjoy my pumpkins in the form of a pumpkin pie with lots of whipped cream.
Wow! So many pumpkins for all the world’s munchkins! Wish I could be there…
I get excited about produce because sometimes what you see is the end result of years of work by plant breeders.Those white and orange striped pumpkins are great!