AT THE FARMER'S MARKET

I find shooting in mid-morning light somewhat challenging
(and that's a nice way of saying that I mostly just find
it butt-ugly). So in this situation, I was hoping that the
sliver of shadowed darkness might better give this image
a sense of depth and likewise make the strawberrys in the
foreground stand out a bit more.

Of course, if I was wiser (or perhaps more disciplined)
then I perhaps would have made it to this market around
6AM where the early morning light just would have made
my searching for images all the much easier than
working in butt-ugly mid-morning light.

Still, I'm happy enough with this shot.

Sidenote: My walk in this local farmer's market this
morning had me in amazement... mostly because as I walked
down the rows and rows of all this truly fresh produce,
I found myself thinking how in contrast this all is to
some country which might be experiencing drought or famine,
and that it truly is a blessing that we here are afforded
such an astounding abundance of great food.

So I bought the berrys, took them home, shoved them
in the Magic Bullet with some ice and a touch of brown
sugar, and then had myself one heck of a smoothy
(rationalizing that this was perhaps healthier than
eating yet another bag of potatoe chips).

C J