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Pumpkin patch

Posted in Autumn, Gardening, Halloween, Photography, tagged Alexandria VA, Canon 24-105mm, Canon 50D, Cucurbita maxima, Mexican Hat pumpkin, Nalls Produce Center, pumpkin, pumpkin patch, Turk's Turban on October 27, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Nothing quite says autumn like a visit to a pumpkin patch. In this case it was a brief excursion to Nalls Produce Center, a nearby establishment that has an amazing assortment of produce and plants. Normally I think of pumpkins as being orange and there are plenty of orange pumpkins there of all shapes and sizes. They also have an incredible variety of pumpkins of different colors, including the multi-colored ones in the final photo. They are known by a number of different names including Turk’s Turban and Mexican Hat.

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Autumn harvest

Posted in Art, Autumn, Gardening, Nature, Photography, Thanksgiving, tagged Alexandria VA, Canon 50D, Canon 70-300mm telephoto zoom lens, Indian corn, Nalls Produce Center, pumpkin, squash on November 28, 2013| 6 Comments »

“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.