Several weeks ago, a good friend asked me how I came up with ideas for my blogs.  No one had asked me that before.  I proceeded to babble, and in the end rendered a fairly uninformative answer.  However, it did make me think about my process in photography again.  Unless I have assigned myself a project, for instance a landscape or nature shoot,  or I have been hired to do an event such as a wedding, family reunion, or environmental portraiture session, my work is fairly spontaneous.  Regardless of subject matter, the photography process springs forth from seeing something/anything that grabs my interest.  I rarely leave the confines of our home without seeing things I want to photograph.  Even within the mundane, subjects seem to present themselves as great photographic opportunities.  Last week was a perfect example of becoming involved in the unexpected.

I had gone to the Tuesday morning Farmers' Market, procuring everything from mixed lettuce and arugula, to tomatoes, green onions, carrots, and basil, and stuffed everything in a handy canvas bag, to be washed and put away later.  When I was removing the carrot tops, I noticed a funky twist of two carrots, the seeds of which obviously grew together after germinating.  Despite it feeling a bit odd and almost like produce porn, it was definitely something I was required to photograph.   And thus, I found myself spending a good deal of "quality time" with an accidental carrot sculpture.  Four different backdrops, all vertical format, each one shot with natural light.    

   carrot on cotton placemat

Food - carrot study 3
 

carrot on a bed of lettuce

Food - carrot study 1              

carrot in porcelain bowl

Food - carrot study 2        

carrot on black cotton

Food - carrot study 4  

Thanks to TTT, Jean & Sam, Victoria, Lawrence J., Christina W., Ingrid, Marilyn G., Steve, and Catherine for commenting on last week's blog, and to all who follow this evolving photographic journey!  

Happy photographic trails!

until next Monday,

DB

a passion for the image©