Backyard Photoshoot

While picking tomatoes in the back yard, I thought the handful looked really cool, with the yellow and red tomatoes of three varieties all intermingled, so I grabbed my camera, and thus began my self-challenge of finding photo ops in the back yard: anything interesting or photo-worthy that I might overlook when going about daily business. I went a little crazy, but it's always fun to see what I can find, and it's nice to capture some details from a certain time, and it's a fun way to practice different shutter speeds, lenses, apertures, angles, lighting, keeping an eye out for color and texture, blah blah blah.

I realize that these are mostly not especially "marketable" photos, and it'd add energy and interest to have people using or interacting with what's pictured, but there's something I like about the idea of all the interest, beauty, and human influence found in one back yard whether or not anyone is appreciating or noticing it.





Heh, I had to smile while taking this one. Tomato still life.


Stalk of corn, or as I like to call it: Muppet plant.

























I call this one "survivor", because it shows my one plant which survived the terrible drought (AKA me forgetting to water my herb garden for most of a week): the strawberries.


This one is a picture of "Voleville", the compost pile.