I recently decided to photograph my two nuts, just for something a little different, figuring it might be a challenge to make the photographs interesting, and it was.
I headed out to Tony & Mark's, a cool market I shop at a lot, and looked for my nuts discovering that it's difficult to find nuts in their shells these days. I had a choice of two, walnuts and pistachio nuts, so I scooped them into my hands, deposited them in my nutbag, made the purchase and headed home to do the photography.
Once done I started thinking about this post and how I could possibly present a dozen images of nuts taken with my Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark III (using my macro lens) in a way that might be even remotely interesting...my nuts themselves are not enough to hold people's interest I figured...I had to do something a little more interesting than photos of my nuts.
I decided I'd select a few and name the photographs then add a brief description of why I chose the name. This is the result.
There's many different nuts available, but despite looking and tasting differently, they're all just nuts; it's sort of like humans...we're all the same, but different. I chose to name this photograph diversity because the two nuts, totally different from one another, sit alongside each other in perfect harmony despite their differences. If only humankind could do the same.
This pistachio reminds me of a green tree frog emerging from a cocoon...Yes, I know frogs don't come out of cocoons but it's my photo and I can make it up as I go along right?
In my bid to take photos that were a little interesting I lined up these pistachios side by side and, when I looked at it later, they reminded me of soldiers on the parade ground. These would fail epically though, the one to the right is too far away from the middle one...I'd hate to be them, they're in for some extra PT (physical training) for sure.
I think this one is fairly self-explanatory. The nut curled up snugly inside the shell makes me think of a mother's womb with a child growing inside. Fortunately, women don't split completely in two when they give birth like this nut though.
This is another reasonably obvious one. I'm sure most if you have seen a testicle up close, you don't have to confirm that unless you want to, but if you haven't this is pretty close to what you'll see...I know there's many out there who will love this one. The name for this photograph came pretty easily, like testicles often do.
Walnuts always remind me of brains once they're cracked open and this one is no exception. You can even see the left and right sides. I don't think it'd take much effort to work out what's going on inside this brain though. I once saw a person with his finger so far up his nose he must have been touching his brain...This photograph is dedicated to him, his name was Davide S. (And yeah, I think he ate the booger.)
OK, this title isn't cryptic at all, it's rather obvious in fact. That's my hand, and there's two nuts in it. It's not the first time, neither will it be the last.
Nuts don't have bones, but this shot reminds me of prehistoric boneyards of the dinosaurs where a group of them have gone to die like they depict in the movies, the bones picked clean and left to bleach in the sun. As I was taking photos some of the nuts were getting eaten so yep, they died and here's their bones.
This makes me think of the nut becoming so big that it's shell bursts open scattering shell in all directions and leaving the inner nut sitting in place still. I was going to call this one noggin nut as it reminded me of a head with the top of the skull cut away revealing the brain but I figure if you want to think of it that way you can rename it for yourself.
I think walnuts are bloody ugly things and this proves it. This one looks like a brain, like they all do, and seems veiny...or maybe they're brain worms riddled throughout?
I know, there's a brain-theme going on here. This title is a play on the convertible roof a vehicle has, you know the ones that flip backwards right? I guess the difference is, this flip top shell isn't ever going to become intact again.
I imagine this one as a dragon's egg and the baby dragon inside is beginning the process of breaking himself out. You can see the first couple of shell pieces already knocked out in the foreground and inside...is that a dragon I spy? Look closely and you'll see.
I'll admit to getting some enjoyment out of the process of playing around with my nuts and the photography went fairly smoothly with only a few duds. I've tried to present rather mundane pictures of nuts with some sort of interest and I hope I've succeeded; if not, it's too bad, I can't/won't change it now. Feel free to comment if you'd like.
Note: No nuts were harmed in the making of this post...and if you believe that you're fecking bonkers!
Design and create your ideal life, don't live it by default; tomorrow isn't promised so be humble and kind - galenkp
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Every image in this post is my own.
My Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark III was used to capture these images.
