Peach Photos

Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Garden Peach
We're finally trying to get back to a normal life here. We recently had a
wild fire in the hills near Santa Barbara, "the Gap Fire". We were not warned to
evacuate where we live, but we did anyway when the sky turned brown and it looked like
the middle of the night at 6pm. I'll get some photos online from some of
those crazy days, but right now I just have to say thank you to all the
amazing fire fighters and the families who worry about them when they
are on the job. Thanks to them not one house was lost.
Still, through all the craziness, I have been taking the time to tinker with my camera.
This is a beautiful translucent striped tomato variety called a Garden Peach.
This is one of the last ones my wife coaxed off the plant and it
is beautiful. It is actually fuzzy like a peach. And this one is still
sitting here waiting to be the subject of more photos. But
the others from the plant have been quite delicious.

Saturday, June 4, 2005
Peach Rose
Early in my tinkering with professional
photography I could barely afford the tools I wanted
let alone the best
lenses money could buy. I was forced to scrounge
for used and not quite perfect items to get the affects I wanted.
Now, years later, I have some better tools
but I still use most of my early toys.
I have a combination of filters that
cause a soft halo around the outer areas
of the photograph, although that was not their
original intention. We call them my "fuzzy flower
filters." I would not trade them for even the latest
and greatest lenses.
I love to encourage people who are interested
in Photography. The tools can be intimidating
but they do not have to be. In the end they
are just tools, the art comes from the person
behind the lens.
At the Art Walk last Sunday there was a
young girl, about 10 years old, who was very interested in how
I got my close-up flowers. I gave her
a short explanation and she seemed very interested.
So I continued to tell her more about the different types of lenses.
I was much younger than her when my
parents encouraged me with my photography,
so I would never underestimate a child's curiosity.
Who knows, some day maybe I'll run into her at her
booth at the Art Walk!