[102/365] My grandmother used to say life was so much easier when you were simple minded. It's taken me almost my whole life to understand what she meant. - story people

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i really love that striped towel. and my new table.

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  1. Jardim.Julia 22 months ago | reply

    Simple really is the true nature of beauty - or maybe it's the contrary. The point is that this image is likely to stay in my mind for a long, long time, while I try my best to understand it's true meaning. Awesome picture, really; says so much with so little.

  2. Sunflare Orange 20 months ago | reply

    I love your work! So true about living simply.

  3. AtlantaTerry 15 months ago | reply

    You wrote above here two years ago that that you are looking for a rustic wood table. I assume what you need is actually a surface for your food photography.

    I too have been looking for a rustic wood surface that I can break down to take with me on food photography assignments. I think I've found a source of rustic wood. Recently I was wandering around a Lowe's store (big box hardware) looking for rustic wood. You might have a similar store in Canada.

    I found what is called rough-cut wood in their wood inventory. It is sold for fencing but would make a perfect background for food photography because the boards are quite rough and also wide.

    My plan is to purchase two of the eight foot long boards then have the store cut them in half so I can transport them in my car. When laid side by side this will give me a 4x4 foot working surface which should be large enough for food photos.

    Over time on one side of each board I might sand down the roughness a bit (enough to remove most of the splinters but not enough to make it nicely smooth). Then I'll do something to the surface to give it a sheen. I'm not sure what farmers in the 1800s would have used to try to seal the surface of their tables. Do you think wax or varnish or shellac would do the trick? I certainly want to remain true to the period and won't use anything new like polyurethane.

    What do you think?

    Terry Thomas
    Professional Food Photographer
    Atlanta, Georgia USA

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