Much like Beth is experiencing over at I Should Be Folding Laundry, we’ve been dealing with the flu. Or severe colds. Or something in between the two but we’ll never know since the Ohio Department of Health won’t test for H1N1 and doesn’t even want singular reports of the virus done through private labs. (Skew the numbers much?) Rants aside, we are starting to feel better. By we, I mostly mean BigBrother. I feel like I’ve inhaled a lead balloon and it’s just resting in my lungs. Great fun.
As such, my creativity was also somewhat limited this week. I did escape a few times at various points during the week to snap some shots of these random berries just over the fence in our backyard. I don’t know what they are and I certainly haven’t eaten them. (Perhaps they’re the magic flu-cold-thing healing berry and no one will ever know.) They’re not blueberries. But they’re pretty in various types of sunlight throughout the day. And so, for my Free for All challenge, I have three pictures of these random berries.
All taken in different times of daylight, all the same berries. Whatever they are, they were fun to shoot this week. Who knew berries could be that much fun? I love how you can see my reflection in the second shot. Berries! WHO KNEW?! You should go see what the other photographers captured this week. Next week’s challenge is “Your Real Life” which is weird because I don’t remember what our real life is like anymore. Cold medicine head. Woo.
21 Responses to “You Capture: Free for All – Berries”
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beautiful!
WOW.
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great shots…and such a good idea!
we have those in our backyard, my friend told me what they were, but I can’t remember. What I do remember is that you can use the berries to dye cloth, or at least that is what Indians and Pioneers used them for. I do remember making a dye bath out of something like them in school.
The shots are gorgeous….loving the bokeh!
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Whoa – those are cool! In the 2nd shot, they look like they are made of glass. Lovely photos!
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Oh my goodness, GORGEOUS!
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i would have walked past these berries and not given them even a glance. you made their shriveled little bodies look beautiful.
Gorgeous photos!
Wow–that center one is particularly stunning! I love shooting the same thing at different times of day–it really changes the results, and it is fun to compare. I used to give an assignment to my older art students to shoot the same scene at three times of day–we’d always tend to see cool colors in the morning shots, and warm colors come through in the evening pics.
So sorry about the flu–feel better soon!
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These are VERY cool! I really need to learn to slow down and look at the details! Hope you’re feeling better soon!
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Those are so beautiful! It’s amazing how different they can look!
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Those are incredible!! Really beautiful!! Your pictures are always so beautiful – do they just come out that nice or do you edit them? Sorry if that is a weird question I am just so astounded by you I HAVE to know.
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Those are just lovely. Nice captures.
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PERFECT!
De-lurking here to say that I think they’re pokeberries. I live in WV, where they tend to grow all over.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokeberries
Careful, because they are somewhat poisonous. However, that never stopped me as a kid from using them to turn my hands bright, bright purple.
Looks Elderberries to me. They are safe and people make Jam out of them. I used them as decoration on a cake once.
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No. Elderberries don’t grow in the same way that these do. The commenter who said that they’re pokeberries/pokeweed sent the link to wiki with a pic of how they grow. I’m 99% sure that these are pokeberries. They grow in long, grape like bunches instead of in a wide, sprawling bunch.
Nice job with these photos! Every one is perfect!
Beautiful! The berries look like pearls!
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Incredible shots!!!
All of your photos are amazing!!
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