fruits of summer by jerome

fruits of summer

This summer many figs ripen in my garden. I am pleased with a good harvest and would like to share with you.

Very inviting warm tones make this almost like a historical painting. Bravo! Fav!
August 28th, 2016  
Lovely like the warm tones
August 28th, 2016  
Beautifully captured. Fav
August 28th, 2016  
beautiful still life..fav
August 28th, 2016  
Great lighting - fav
August 28th, 2016  
So elegantly displayed Jerome, together with the fig leaf. looking ripe and tasty. Thanks for sharing.
August 28th, 2016  
extremely tempting @blueace
August 28th, 2016  
Sharing is wonderful - can you send them to Australia please??
August 28th, 2016  
Beautiful low key!
August 28th, 2016  
beautifully captured
August 28th, 2016  
Perfect Fav
August 28th, 2016  
Beautiful
August 29th, 2016  
oh...how absolutely beautiful Fav
August 29th, 2016  
Lovely presentation. Fav
August 29th, 2016  
You've made them look beautiful - wonderful composition with such nice lighting.
August 29th, 2016  
Fabulous composition and such gorgeous warm colours.
August 29th, 2016  
Amazing tones and shot...fav
August 29th, 2016  
Beautiful tones
August 29th, 2016  
Beautiful lighting!
August 29th, 2016  
Gorgeous tones and light.
August 29th, 2016  
Haven't seen such an elegant still life in...cannot remember! Excellent technique and vision for the shot!! Fav!
August 29th, 2016  
A wonderful still life, just gorgeous. fav
August 29th, 2016  
Beautiful shot. What a great bounty.
August 29th, 2016  
great light, tones, shot. fav
August 29th, 2016  
This is absolutely gorgeous!
August 29th, 2016  
lovely medieval portrait
August 29th, 2016  

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Thank you all so much for your nice comments!

@joysabin Yes, there are beautiful still lifes, such as the Dutch painting of the 17th century. A very careful handling of light and dark and nice warm tones is peculiar to them. I like to look at these still lifes.

@helenhall It's nice that you noticed the fig leaf. It was important to me.

@gilbertwood Send them to Australia? :) Very much I would like to let you taste my figs. However: They would have to travel long - in the best case, you get them as dried fruits...

@mabrown I tried my best in arranging the fruit. I am very pleased, if you like the result. :)
August 30th, 2016  
This has a real 'old masters' look about it xx
August 30th, 2016  
@psychographer
Thank you! :)
August 30th, 2016  
So superbly composed, a lovely image. Definitely looking like a beautiful old painting, I agree!
August 31st, 2016  
My thoughts are exactly what Joysabin said: like a Dutch masters painting, Chiaroscuro. I love figs and my father used to have several trees.
August 31st, 2016  
@kerosene
Thank you, Caroline, for your nice comment! :)
August 31st, 2016  
@bethshepherd
Thank you, Beth, for your kind comment!
You know the expression "Chiaroscuro"... You're dealing with art, painting? Chiaroscuro is much more than light and shadow. It creates a special atmosphere, it is pictorially developed. It is no mere mapping of reality. It's design.

You like figs. And your father had several fig trees in his garden - how beautiful!
August 31st, 2016  
Fantastic still-life, beautifully arranged and captured
September 2nd, 2016  
@zinnia
Thank you, Sarah, for your so nice comment! :)
September 2nd, 2016  
This reminds me of an old painted masterpiece, with the soft directional natural light as Rembrandt might have painted it! Well done!
September 3rd, 2016  
Thank you, Madeleine, for your kind comment!
Rembrandt... The great master. These are higher spheres, in which my work does not reach. But it is nice that you mention him.
September 4th, 2016  
perfect shot
stop and follow you!
September 4th, 2016  
@olenadole
Thank you, Naciya, for your nice comment and following! :)
September 4th, 2016  
Congratulations Jerome on this being selected for the Top Twenty! It is well deserving! FAV!
September 5th, 2016  
@skipt07
Thank you, Skip Tribby, for your kind comment and the nice message!
I feel really honored!!
September 5th, 2016  
Fav. Great composition.
September 6th, 2016  
@veengupta
Thank you, Veena, for your nice comment!
September 6th, 2016  
Lovely fruit composition! The leaf makes the fifth element (in Japan, we are very superstitious about 4, which sounds like the word for death). I love the tones in this image.
September 6th, 2016  
@jyokota
Thank you, Junko, for your nice comment!
Very interesting your interpretations with numbers. I know of China that numbers play a major role in the design. My son is actually a very big fan of Japan. He has learned the language and was two weeks in Tokyo, where he attended a Japanese language school. He is interested in the language, the writing and the culture of Japan. And I admire the Japanese art (particularly architecture and ink painting). I would very much like to travel this country.
September 7th, 2016  
@jerome !! When was your son in Japan? I was there for nearly three weeks this summer. I'm just now posting photos. It was a family trip this time, but about once every 18 months I accompany @vankrey and 23 high school students studying Japanese on a trip throughout Japan. This will be my eighth such trip. And two years ago, we led a photography delegation called "Picture Japan." You could have joined us! Maybe we will do it again. Why is your son fascinated with Japan?
September 7th, 2016  
@jyokota
My son was in the last two weeks of December 2014 in Tokyo. At that time he was 16 years old and he traveled there alone. I admit, I was not quite comfortable with that. But he found his way very quickly and also found in the school quickly connection. It was spoken by the beginning only Japanese. He praises this school very. Already on the third day he went alone through Tokyo and spoke only Japanese. However, in the months before he made an intensive self-study - he bought textbooks for Japanese language and writing and was informed in detail about the city of Tokyo and the people who live there. He is very talented linguistically - alongside English and French, he speaks and writes Russian and Japanese. The more exotic the language in speech and writing, the more interesting it is for him. He says Japanese is much easier than French... (I myself am happy if I get along reasonably with English). My son is fascinated by the Japanese culture. Since he was in Tokyo, this city is the measure of all things. He was in London, Paris and recently in Montreal, but all these cities remain in his understanding far behind Tokyo. The school year 2016/17 will be his last at the secondary school. It is next to a large exam to write a comprehensive thesis. He has already filed the theme: "Japanese language and writing". He writes in English.

Me, the landscapes and the art of Japan also very fascinating. My dream: to explore Japan during cherry blossom time - starting in the south and following the wave of cherry blossom to the northern islands ... I imagine beautiful ...

You made a trip through Japan with students? Wonderful! Are you a teacher?

You have a very nice album!
September 7th, 2016  
Congratulations on top twenty with this wonderful still life. Love the dark feel to it, and that you still stayed in the colour range of the figues. Great comp too. Huge fav.
September 9th, 2016  
@mona65
Thank you, Mona, for your nice comment and congratulation!
September 9th, 2016  
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