Happy Macro Monday!

This week's theme: Condiments

A trip to the farmers market.

Pepper is showing off in front of me. He came very close. Just about 1 meter or so (Squirrels-2021-3534.jpg)

Pepper on black card, after Edward Wesson 1930. Hasselblad X1D.

Pepper

decided to photo a Pepper instead of a model as they are cheaper and they dont move

Happy Caturday theme 19 Dec 2020, "Colourful". Pepper likes to snuggle under fabric so I thought I'd let him play with last year's rainbow tie-dyed "Kittenpalooza" T from Cat Adoption Team. Pepper is Black and white but between that huge red yawn and the T shirt I think he's pretty colorful!

365 days in colour

28/31 red in August

Pepper :)

for may the 14th, 2017

...and Bokeh :-)

Experimental stack of 11 images

Pepper Pot Cottage on the St Giles estate in 2010 pre renovation and at this time looking unloved. So different now in 2016 there has been a total transformation. Wimborne St. Giles Dorset. You can see the renovated Pepper Pot cottage in my album of Knowlton,Ebbesborne Wake and Wimborne St Giles. #WimborneStGiles

Pepper Pot Cottage 2014 on The St. Giles estate, Wimborne St. Giles Dorset and once again loved. If you look at the photo taken in 2010 you will see the transformation. #WimborneStGiles

Pepper using a tree stump as a lookout spot.

Capsicum, or bell pepper is the fruit of plants in the Grossum Group of the species Capsicum annuum

I bought these for the family to eat but thought they were rather photogenic so put them in a glass bowl and took their photo.

The Peppers chain of hotels and resorts in Australia (like all tourist dependent industries) has been doing it very tough over the past year. You may recall that during the lock down in Tasmania I featured the Peppers York Town Cove Resort as a veritable ghost town (link below). Now that state borders have reopened some tourists are arriving, but it will take a bit of time for the industry to bounce back. The Silo Hotel will play a major role in that recovery.

The Grain Restaurant in the foreground provides fine dining with views of the Tamar River and Launceston.

* Apologies to those who faved the original black and white version. I decided the change to some subtle colour in this dull light. Partly because tomorrow I want to feature three monochromes of a rural scene.

LENSBABY Sol 45 mm f/3.5 Sony

Red Hot Chili Peppers

I was at the Farmers Market the other morning. The bins of mixed peppers looked so amazing with all their different colors.

peppers

Rainy days are great days to play with still life's.

Northfield, OH USA

Peppers...Desert Hills Farm and Garden, Ashcroft, British Columbia.

B&W slide with Silver Effex Pro for pepper still life

Saturday Self Challenge

This week's challenge then is to show two things which are different, yet largely the same. For example two forks that don't match, two different types of yellow car, maybe a pair of different coloured socks from a matching set. Collage or a single image is fine. As ever new photos please.

This was one of those ideas that in my mind seemed simple but turned out to be quite difficult to pull off. I decided after taking photos of the ground pepper and the complete peppercorns in separate containers that they would look probably look better in the same one. That was when the trouble started, trying to get them not to mix. In the end I folded a small piece of aluminium foil and placed it across the middle of the wooden bowl. I carefully filled from each side and then just before I was ready to take the pictures I carefully removed the foil barrier. I did end up with a couple of stray peppercorns getting into the ground up side, but I would have caused too much of a mess attempting to remove them. I do hope it’s suitable for the challenge.

Thank you for your visit and your comments, they are greatly appreciated.

Paprika Vielfalt

Pepper variety