Pics of your veggies (and fruits)...

[Tyrion Cheddar]

This year for the first time I planted some veggies. I am a total newb, who knows nothin' about growing things, and will no doubt kill more plants than I succeed in growing to the point where they put stuff in my tum-tum, but I shall learn as I go. In any case, this fledgling tomato is my first ever such example. In this thread, please post pictures of the fruits and veggies you've grown.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8602/27756531344_6718c5d701.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/JhKtKf)New Tomato pic (https://flic.kr/p/JhKtKf) by Archibald Heatherington Nasty-Face (https://www.flickr.com/photos/132123085@N03/), on Flickr

[North Star]

Pictures of an apple tree I planted (along with some other trees together with my family). I'm sorry I don't have pictures of the apples themselves, or of a a larger part of the tree, at hand.

https://c7.staticflickr.com/4/3857/14166669590_a03f9c2f05_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/nzRTiY)

https://c8.staticflickr.com/8/7482/15955901735_9d4fecfbcd_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/qiYaG4)

https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7486/15766223960_3c64840807_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/q2d26A)

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Gorgeous, artistic shots, as always, North Star. Tell me, how long did it take you to learn to use a DSLR that well and were you self-taught?

[North Star]

Thank you TC. Yes, I'm pretty much entirely self-taught. As for how long it took to learn to use the camera, It can't have taken too long, maybe four months of not too active shooting (according to files, 30 days when photographs were taken, and I'd wager I used the camera for less than an hour on all of those occasions). My earlier photographs are with a point & shoot digital (with a manual mode that got plenty of use) from family holidays, and I still think there are some quite good images among them, but I wasn't that interested in photography until the early 2010s, 2013 in particular. Those flower shots are from summer 2014, just before I got my current camera, and a couple of months before I started shooting RAW, which I suppose is the height of my technical learning curve at the moment - haven't bothered with using flashes or filters. Artistic development is not at such a halt, I hope.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Nay, your artistic development is improving, sahib. I need to check my new-ish Sony camcorder to see if it shoots RAW. I am interested in uncompressed data formats.

[North Star]

I don't know about video, but the point in shooting RAW still photographs is that you have all the data from the image, thus allowing you to retain more highlight and shadow details and to see in post processing what the image needs in terms of contrast, exposure adjustment, white balance, saturation, various filter effects, and so on. And if you keep the RAW files, you can come back to the image later and create new versions of the image, just as one would have returned to a negative in the darkroom for different prints.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

I don't know about video, but the point in shooting RAW still photographs is that you have all the data from the image, thus allowing you to retain more highlight and shadow details and to see in post processing what the image needs in terms of contrast, exposure adjustment, white balance, saturation, various filter effects, and so on. And if you keep the RAW files, you can come back to the image later and create new versions of the image, just as one would have returned to a negative in the darkroom for different prints.

I see. I have learned something new, thanks. Also, after discovering that my prize tomato is being eaten by some kind of fungus, I realized I hadn't sprayed the plant with anything (told y'all I was a newb). Luckily, the young man who works on my property for me told me about a product called 7 or Seven.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Well this thread hasn't exactly taken off. C'mon, folks, show us your edibles!

[Snowqueen]

We have grown some falsas around our house.

http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv183/SheherBano5/Kids/falsay6-Copy.jpg (http://s682.photobucket.com/user/SheherBano5/media/Kids/falsay6-Copy.jpg.html)

http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv183/SheherBano5/For%20Posts/Falsay3.jpg (http://s682.photobucket.com/user/SheherBano5/media/For%20Posts/Falsay3.jpg.html)

[Tyrion Cheddar]

We have grown some falsas around our house.

http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv183/SheherBano5/Kids/falsay6-Copy.jpg (http://s682.photobucket.com/user/SheherBano5/media/Kids/falsay6-Copy.jpg.html)

http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv183/SheherBano5/For%20Posts/Falsay3.jpg (http://s682.photobucket.com/user/SheherBano5/media/For%20Posts/Falsay3.jpg.html)

Thank you for this, Snowqueen. I had never heard of this fruit, but have just looked it up and read about it. Sounds delicious and apparently quite good for your health. As I say, I'm a total neophyte when it comes to growing things, but I have thought about fruit trees. Apple would be the most obvious. In the northeast of the U.S. we get plenty of winter, so not sure what kind of fruit trees would survive here. Avocado, for instance, I wonder about that. I am also out in the country with plenty of deer and other animals that eat what you plant so there's that consideration.

[Snowqueen]

You're welcome, Tyrion Cheddar. Falsa is an excellent fruit. It's very tasty with appetizing flavour. But, sadly it only grows in Indian-subcontinent.