Frozen Apples poster
24"x 36" poster -- $20.00
Discovering a poster
This photo was taken from the orchard of a ranch house. The orchard has not been harvested for fifty years. Old timers say these apples are a variety of wine apple used to make applejack. In the spring the trees grow thousands of pink and white blossoms that smell like a sweet perfume. This picture was taken on a freezing cold October morning, at about 7 a.m. The temperature dipped below freezing. By morning the air warmed up to the point where it suspended tiny droplets of water, big enough to see. A quarter inch of ice covered everything.
I discovered this at a Christmas party. I knew it was going to be a slow year. So, to make things a
little more interesting I took photos of flowers, fruit on the vine, birds,
and bees. I collected them in a drawer. By the end of the year the pile
in the drawer had grown to over an inch thick. I looked them over one by
one and discarded the worst ones. The lower right was one of them. I thought
it was too dark and dreary. I actually tossed it in the wastebasket. Then
I pulled it out, thinking it would make the other pictures in the bunch
look that much better. I don't see myself as a photographer. But, anything
for people to look at or fidget with at a party makes good ice breaker material. One lady pulled this
picture out saying " Make a poster out of this one."
I took the stack around the corner. I saw another lady
and gave her the stack. She flips through and pulls out the same photo;
"I like this one," 
she said. Neither one of them knew that the other had seen the photos, or
that they existed for that matter. I moved to the living room where my sister
was. She worked for NBC
in Burbank and won prizes for entries that had she made in photography contests
at NBC. I shuffled the stack once more and passed it to her. This was the
first time she was aware that the pictures existed. I was dumbfounded. She
picks the same picture and said; " This would make a nice
black and white poster."
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