The first fruits of my wife’s garden were plucked today. I am guessing this strawberry costs about $400 – that would not take into consideration time. I am sure the cost will come down as inventory production starts to ramp up. I might be approaching the goal of the garden wrong.

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This week I have been working with The Little Shop of Olive Oils to assist with building a catalog of photos for their website. Fresh foods, ingredients, all photographed with their new logo and bottles. The studio has smelled of garlic, olives, fruits, herbs, cinnamon, the last few days. One final photo putting all the ingredients together for one cornucopia of sorts. Check out their website, they have stores in Franklin and Mashpee, MA.

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I made these.

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I ran out of photo steam today, threw up a call for ideas then went to finish that lawn that was ignored after the mutant bug. Came in for dinner, chicken breasts with a fruit & vegetable salad. Looking through the suggestions and one was simply fruit and veggie emojis (?? – I am far to old to know if that is the right word), anyway they were in a line, next I knew the family was watching me rip apart and relocate my food. I am fine being judged, not OK with using the word emoji though. Thanks Katie.

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This photo came from a few different ideas.  First, I am still in the “Shoot the Alphabet” May challenge so I needed and “O” photo. Second, I had a conversation at lunch about the state of photography, how I come up with ideas for the dailypic, the possible end of this project and a interesting idea about posting bad photos. There are so many places to share photos in the social world, Flickr, Facebook, Google+ and 500px to name a few. We got talking about how each has a different purpose facebook is for the masses, family, flickr will get you some positive feedback and it is nice to be seen, google+ is a great theory and we agreed the 500px can really make you feel inferior about your talent or lack of.  Somehow this led to us joking about taking a horrible photo, so bad it could be considered brilliant and posting it somewhere.  Get some of your friends to comment on it, say it is revolutionary, unique, genius…  and we wondered how long would it take for others to join in and at least look at it, maybe add their own comments. I think it could happen, maybe a thumb in front of the lens, maybe lighting that just sucks, red-eye, or a bowl of fruit completely out of focus. Anyway, I got my “O” photo, found a photo for today and maybe it is not as bad as I hoped… my daughter saw the photo I am posting and said she really liked it, “it looks like a cool old painting”.

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