The Annual Garden Crawl

wheelbarrow from a height

Every summer, I spend part of a weekend crawling all over my mother-in-law's back yard with a camera. It has become an annual event, if you can call one person crawling on their hands and knees around a compost pile an event.

eggshell in a compost heap

It was a bit late in the season to be snapping pictures of flowers, because most of her blooms were decidedly on the dead side, but it turns out that dead things can be fairly photogenic.

mostly dead

I like nails and old fences and how they look all vintagey in black and white.

nail heads

And it turns out that the handle on a garden shovel can be a wanton whore for a camera lens.

dirty slut

Comments

[Sassy]

Very cool.

[Gwen]

Lovely! The slutty shovel cracked me up. What a hoe.

[Bella]

Oooh...shovel porn! I like it :)

[Karla]

Your photos are gorgeous. I'm camera shopping. What do you use? What kind of lens(es) do you have? Spill, please.

[Schmutzie]

Karla, I used an old Panasonic Lumix FZ20, no extra lenses, on the macro setting. I've found that it's a camera that does excellent close-up shots without having to invest in other equipment.