It was a weekend in September that I remember for two reasons. First, it was our annual encounter with Austin City Limits Musical Festival, and second, it was the first day of rain in over three months. I was walking around downtown with either an EP-2 or an EP-3 (don't remember which) and a pocketful of older prime lenses and I decided to head for home when the clouds broke open. I put my hat over my camera to keep it dry and walked back to my car. Whole Foods was on the way. I walked up to the front of the store and there they were. Pumpkins. The light was wonderful. A cloudy sky with hazy, diffused light and pumpkins just underneath an overhang. Nestled in the shadows but tickled to a gentle glow by a tentative. lingering light coming in from one side.
I like these pumpkins so much that I made a stack of 5x7 inch prints to hand out to my friends. Someone at my favorite coffee shop asked me to sign one for her. I was so flattered. I'm always incredulous when people ask me to sign stuff. I always thought people only wanted signatures from famous people...
I consider my pumpkin shots the closest thing to a landscape I've shot all year.
