When I first started this blog I really wanted it to be just a posting of a good or better than average photographs. The visual was to be not a slappy, happy snap. I guess I have succeeded in trying to keep my quality higher on this blog than on my other posts. I do want things to not be in a rut but flower after flower photo is taken because of the season they bloom. I am trying to expand the subject matter variety but it is easy to take the quick shot of the beautiful. I hold back on great photos sometimes and then forget to ever post them. Regardless of all the rambling I hope to keep growing as an artistic photographer. I am becoming more aware of the less beautiful and will try to get the subject matter expanded.
The fallen apples are a result of me picking them up from the ground and putting them aside before I go for the major job of picking the apples from the tree. I don't know the name of the apple tree but it is getting to be old and large. I had these apples in the wheel barrow for quite a while and I have some lined up on the top of a sawhorse under the other tree. I do have animals that like to eat at the fallen ones so I try to check every couple of days for the ones that I could really peal and have some clear fruit inside.
The tree is probably 30 years old or more. When I pick out a tree in the catalog, it must say great for pie making. I suppose that I could find the variety that it is by going through the seed catalogs. The tree is in need of a good pruning but that happens only when I feel like doing it. I will need the tall step ladder for this tree and the other by the shed to pick the apples.
4 comments:
Nothing better than warm apple pie. Do be careful climbing to reach the fruit.
I enjoy all of your photos.
We just ordered a gardenia from Wayside Gardens...we have a spot that is very wet near a downspout and the gardenia should do well there.
I like that still life photo...maybe even more than the blooms! ha.
That tree is huge!
I have two tree about the same age, Larry. One is a dessert apple (I was told it was a Howgate) and the other produced cooking apple. Both have pretty much 'gone off' now but the birds love them. I never thought to take a photograph of them so you put me to shame. It's great to take shots of the not so beautiful stuff.
I like the artistic quality of the shot...even fallen not so pretty fruit has a beauty. It reminds me so much of my childhood too. My grandmother had three apple trees in her front yard and we would climb them with a salt shaker, and pick the apples, salt them and eat them. There is nothing better in the whole world! :-)
If you want to make sure your photos get posted, keep them out of any folder in your My Pictures, then once they are posted, move them into a folder (Summer 2014) (Flowers) whatever you want them designated as. It helps! :-)
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