Penning Photography Daily

A fresh Gala apple, recently picked from the local orchards. Basking in the early evening sunlight on a table in our sun room, split by a knife.

My point here, is the thin slice of the photograph that is in focus.

Note the handle and point of the knife are both way out of focus. Only the top of the apple, with a drop of apple juice just above the top of the knife, and everything in that same vertical plane is in focus. I had the aperture wide open at F2, capturing just a thin slice of the apple and table in focus.

I almost never use a knife on an apple when eating one. I eat the whole apple, core and seeds included, with the exception of the stem. I get much more of the apple flesh that way. Yum!

The way the light was coming in and casting shadows had me getting my camera out and taking pictures of the shadows everywhere. Then I thought about the apples we just got from a local orchard. The knife and this scene just popped into my creative head, and here you are.

There are photographs to be seen everywhere I look.

Sometimes, I see the light and it turns on the creative urge.

That’s a whole lot of fun.