Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core...
Oh, I could reach out for that apple. What varieties do you grow. Oh I probably shouldn't ask as they would be different from out New England Varieties.
Beautiful image and lyric poetry. It has the feel of a Lensbaby shot, even though I believe that you are sticking with the 50mm this month for your challenge. Maybe its the shallow DOF that helps with this effect, which is soft and dreamy.
@taffy Thanks Taffy - in a processing world I would have got rid of the out of focus debris in the spider's web and the vestiges of the web which have caught the light... but these are the things that mostly only photographers notice, so I'm sure that your shots are not as bad as you think they are!
@rosiekerr Thanks Rosie - the 'soft and dreamy' effect comes from having a f/1.4 lens wide-open - or almost wide-open (f/1.6) here - on a full-frame camera... the DoF is virtually nil at close focussing distances. I did do a couple of LB shots for last year's challenge and I intend to do the same again this year with my LB 50mm double-glass optic.