The fundamentals of cooking in our kitchen include a lot of garlic. As I placed a bulb of Allium Sativum back into the molcajete (a Mexican mortar and pestle) where I keep it by the stove, I saw another side of its beauty. The papery skin torn in layers around the root cluster begged for a photo, as did the other side
Nothing in this house escapes a phoneography opportunity. Thanks to Lens and Pens by Sally for today’s challenge.
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Wonderful! I love garlic, but have never looked at it this closely before 🙂
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Thanks! People must think I’m nuts in the grocery store as I look through all the piles of garlic to select just the right one; I love their shapes. There is a little town near here, Gilroy, that grows a lot of garlic, and they have a garlic festival every year…I must go this year 🙂
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Look forward to more intriguing garlic shots 😀
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I was just looking up the dates for this year’s festival…end of July.
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Never knew garlic looked like that!
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Gotta put your eyes up real close.
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Thanks for the pingback, Irene!
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Funny how these subjects are often overlooked, yet they are quite interesting. You’ll find my entry here:
http://forestwoodfolkart.wordpress.com/2014/02/11/phoneography-challenge-your-phone-as-your-lens-macro/
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My eyes are always roving, visualizing subjects in macro, and then taking a photo to see if what I saw in my mind works on the screen. Macro is an interesting segment of photography. Thanks for stopping in, and I’m off to see your entry now.
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🙂 you clearly have a photographer’s eye for detail.
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Thank you so much!
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Oh garlic! We have a love and hate relationship! LOL #1’s juxtaposition of light and dark and the different textures is interesting. 🙂
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Thank you! I think I get your drift on the love/hate relationship with garlic 🙂
I don’t know why, but our garlic use has increased in the last year or so…I’m glad both my husband and I like it.
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I like the second one as well. The surface of the cloves looks satiny… the color treatment really works well.
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Thanks, Meghan! I did a little bit of processing with Snapseed, but pretty much the color is how it came out of the camera.
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I was wondering about that as I wrote the word treatment. I thought maybe it was just the natural color… it is lovely.
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I didn’t see the actual loveliness until I saw the photo on the screen.
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Cool idea for the macro 🙂 I’ve never though about using food in the kitchen.
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Thanks, Amy. The kitchen is a prime place for macro photos!
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Thanks for the pingback.
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Great subject–the garlic bulbs are apt for the challenge, especially like the second image. Happy Phoneography Monday.
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Thanks, Sally! I really look forward to the weekly challenges.
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