Peppercorns and Rain

Yo everyone,

Week two of Photo blogging is upon us.

Ehh what to say. It’s been a frustrating week. I like my photo for this week but I’m not feeling very photo-y this past week so god only knows what next week will bring…probably not anything very good. Maybe it’s just all the outside frustrations invading the photo aspect of my life. Bad photographer! I just gotta start separating myself from the ‘real world’ while I’m photographing.

The dryer in my house is broken. As it is the only dryer I can’t dry my clothes…it’s been like this for awhile and now I have a huge pile of laundry that needs to be done and no way to do it…unless I trek through the rain to the laundromat which would be pretty counter productive because by the time I bring my clean, dry clothes back they’re going to be wet from the rain. Off topic, I know, but at the same time, this is the main source of my frustration at the moment and I apologize if that frustration starts leaking into my post…okay so it already has

So, my photo:

I liked this photo a lot, it was taken kind of on a whim, unlike some of the other photos I did for this week which were “I’m going to go out and take photos of this particular thing/event/person”

I liked the play of the colors of the fabric in the back against the peppercorns. Frank said he wishes there were less empty space but I’m going to stick to my guns here and say I like the empty space. For me the photo isn’t solely about the peppercorns, it’s the interplay. I had the opportunity to crop the photo and I decided against it. I like space a lot. It may seem inconsequential or trivial to the photograph but I like that aspect of what is beyond this other feature of the photo.

Okay, I think I’ve started rambling. Point being, I like the empty space and I like the colors of this particular photograph. It was a fairly long exposure as it was taken in a dim restaurant and long exposures make me a little nervous honestly but I think it worked out well and I was pleased with the result.