Still life is a genre of photography that is pretty difficult to pull off successfully, I think. When you get a solid photograph, it is very rewarding. At any rate, I picked these pears from a friend's yard a couple of weeks before they were at their prime, and was hoping they would ripen if I set them in the sun. They never did. We ate them anyway, they tasted like wet stones. But they also served as interesting subjects for photography. Rolleiflex SL66, Tri-X, 120 mm f/5.6 macro lens. The exposure was f/32 and a couple of seconds. It was simple to print in the darkroom, too.
