![Still life with mandarins. Japanese laquer bowl containing fresh-picked mandarins.Image: Su Leslie, 2017](https://zimmerbitch.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/fullsizerender-171.jpg?w=676)
Still life with mandarins. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
I so enjoyed photographing the first mandarins of our crop that I thought I’d use the next harvest for my Five Minutes of Random post.
The bowl is one of my bargain purchases from the Asia Gallery and Vintage Fabric Emporium. I love the way the design echoes the colour and shape of a peeled mandarin.
![Did the artist who made this bowl take inspiration from mandarin flesh? Close-up shot of laqueer design and peeled mandarin. Image: Su Leslie, 2017](https://zimmerbitch.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/fullsizerender-20.jpg?w=676)
Did the artist who made this bowl take inspiration from mandarin flesh? Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
And in keeping with the still-life theme, I couldn’t resist re-editing the shots in Stackables to add an “old-painting” effect.
Still life with mandarins; edited with Stackables for painted effect. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Still life with mandarins; edited with Stackables for painted effect. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Still life with mandarins; edited with Stackables for painted effect. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Still life with mandarins; edited with Stackables for painted effect. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Still life with mandarins; edited with Stackables for painted effect. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Five Minutes of Random (the RegularRandom challenge), is a weekly photo challenge hosted by Desley Jane at Musings of a Frequently Flying Scientist.
Nice! Some very effective Still Lifes, Su
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Thanks Sue; my current obsession (still life, not mandarins) 🙂
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😊
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It’s lovely!
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Thank you 🙂
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Beautiful Still Lifes here Su, and that bowl is gorgeous!! (And yes does look like a peeled orange or mandarin).
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Thanks so much Jude. I’m glad you like the bowl too. It’s proven to be such a good find.
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Now that you mentioned it Su, the bowl does have a lot of the colouring of the mandarin. Beautiful still life.
Leslie
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Thanks so much Leslie. I love the bowl — not least because it was such a bargain!
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It’s lovely too.
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The bowl is a brilliant touch.
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Thanks Anabel. It wasn’t until I looked at the close-up shots I saw the similarities between bowl design and orange.
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Su, you’re rocking the still lifes! Happy Mother’s Day (here in the US, but why not share?)
janet
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Thanks so much Janet. I think my enjoyment of the whole staging process is showing through. And Happy Mother’s Day to you (belatedly). It was our Mother’s Day here too; though a very quiet one for me.
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I love them all. That filter you used for the last few looks really cool. I agree on the bowl – perfect compliment to the mandarins.
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Thank you 🙂
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Nice one
I like this blog
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Oh so gorgeous Su. Love the editing. Love the bowl. Love the composition. Sorry I had missed this while I was away. It’s a wonderful post.
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Thank you so much. This challenge is really encouraging me to focus on still-life and on looking more at detail. Loving it!!
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Excellent. Me too. I’m really enjoying it. You seem to be finding the most interesting things. I keep coming back to flowers 😜
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That would be my default position. Or food — I love photographing food! 😃
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Yes!!
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😃
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Su,
There is an exhibition: “Slow Food: Still Lifes of the Golden Age” at the Mauritshuis here in The Hague. I am planning to go before it closes.
https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/discover/exhibitions/slow-food/
Your mandarins would not look out of place 🙂
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Thank you for that link. I’ve just been drooling! I love still life painting/photos and would so love to see the exhibition. Sigh! Enjoy it (and take photos). 🙂
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Works well, Sue! And i love that bowl. 🙂
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Thanks Jo. It was a great find!
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Your composition has a wonderful ikibana feel.
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Thanks so much Christine. I really love the simplicity of a lot of Japanese art forms, and was trying to emulate that.
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You succeeded.
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Absolutely gorgeous galery, Su! Love the way you arranged this set up.
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Thank you so much. It was so much fun to do the staging. 🙂
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