S.'s housekeeper brings her fresh eggs, and sometimes they're blue. Evidently she keeps Araucana chickens.
Aren't they pretty?
Just another random snap. It's hard to get the blog page to show the subtlety of the full file, which is luminous and beautiful.
Mike
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Paul Bass: "And delicious. Looks like home; I have three Araucanas and three Buff Orpingtons, so my egg cartons look exactly like this."
Hugh Smith: "But which bag do (or can you) carry them in? Just wondering. Mi dos centavos."
Mike R: "Similar story here. My neighbor, who works in a lab at a pharma company, is at heart a wannabe farmer. He keeps a small flock, and his hens lay a pastel Easter basket—pale green, pale blue, pale pink, a sort of yellowish white. Plus the occasional brown or white. It's fun."
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Chuck Albertson: "If you had green eggs you could have green eggs and ham, if you had some ham. "
Carl Blesch: "Okay, no Dr. Seuss jokes here, please?"
Nice.
Can't you sometimes linked to a large file uploaded to Dropbox or some such?
It's not like the market is lacking for offers of online storage. Heck, Flickr, crazily, will store up to a TB of photos for free, and you can share individual ones I think.
Posted by: Eolake | Monday, 18 May 2015 at 11:58 AM
Could you please clarify what exactly you mean when you say "file is luminous"?
Posted by: ZZPhoto | Monday, 18 May 2015 at 01:02 PM
I read, "...It's hard to get the blog page to show the subtlety of the full LIFE, which is luminous and beautiful." --which would also seem appropriate.
Posted by: Scott Squire | Monday, 18 May 2015 at 02:34 PM
Thanks, Mike, I've been needing a good "soft calibration" for my monitor for some time now.
Posted by: Tony Rowlett | Monday, 18 May 2015 at 05:08 PM
Yum!
With best regards,
Stephen
Posted by: Stephen S. Mack | Monday, 18 May 2015 at 06:05 PM
Are the blue eggs really close in color to the carton? Or is that just my stupid color blindness kicking in again?
Posted by: David Bostedo | Monday, 18 May 2015 at 06:12 PM
Well know it's "green eggs and ham". So, what do blue eggs go with? Spam? Jam? Or something with a different rhyme sound, requiring more extensive working of the entire poem :-) ?
Posted by: David Dyer-Bennet | Monday, 18 May 2015 at 06:40 PM
Blue eggs and ham?
Posted by: BruceK | Monday, 18 May 2015 at 06:50 PM
We found some green ones at the local farmers market.
I think the green eggs were from chickens that ate a lot of bugs.
Posted by: Len Kowitz | Monday, 18 May 2015 at 07:19 PM
Don't you think the pale yellow and custard tones of the blog page reduce the ability of any posted image to look luminous and beautiful?
Posted by: Arg | Monday, 18 May 2015 at 07:20 PM
Blue eggs, brown eggs, green eggs with ham! I think I'd rather put up with another Adorable Butters snap. Jeez!
Posted by: Jake | Monday, 18 May 2015 at 07:48 PM
That's my favorite kind of light.
Posted by: Trecento | Monday, 18 May 2015 at 09:57 PM
Where I come from it's red eggs, tomatoes, and smoked fish. The eggshell (duck eggs not chicken) are dyed red.
Posted by: Sarge | Tuesday, 19 May 2015 at 12:31 AM
We've been getting those kind of eggs from a friend for about a year now. She recently got a couple of new hens that lay chocolate brown ones. I can hardly wait to get a couple of them.
They are much fresher than what you can buy in the grocery.
Posted by: Jim Witkowki | Tuesday, 19 May 2015 at 09:27 AM
Whew! For a second there I thought the white balance on my monitor was off and I was going to have to go back through weeks of work.
Posted by: Keith | Tuesday, 19 May 2015 at 10:06 AM
I can't look at eggs without thinking of making a photograph of them. I tried many times and they are a challenge since they are all about the lighting.
Looking at a picture of a package of eggs reminds me of Hideyuki Oka's classic book about Japanese design: How to Wrap Five Eggs: Traditional Japanese Packaging. It has great Black and White photography, including eggs.
Posted by: Robert Hudyma | Tuesday, 19 May 2015 at 03:01 PM
They look like coming from a farm close to a nuclear reactor.
Posted by: Marcelo Guarini | Tuesday, 19 May 2015 at 03:28 PM
Okay, luminous - may we be told the lighting, the camera, and the lens?
Posted by: Charlie | Wednesday, 20 May 2015 at 11:47 AM
Mike you could actually make the full file available so we can see the color.
Posted by: Michael Cytrynowicz | Wednesday, 20 May 2015 at 12:27 PM
Oops, I missed Eolake's post. Sorry.
Robert Hudyma: I have this book! and the printing is exquisite!! - you don't see that kind of printing anymore :-(
Posted by: Michael Cytrynowicz | Wednesday, 20 May 2015 at 12:30 PM
Charlie, Lighting was window light on an overcast day, camera was Fuji X-T1, lens was 23mm f/1.4.
Posted by: Mike Johnston | Wednesday, 20 May 2015 at 12:50 PM
my best egg photo...
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm294/HGMonaro350/Egg003_zpshamj5f4z.jpg
Posted by: Nige | Thursday, 21 May 2015 at 03:49 AM
Thank you, Mike. Overcast light tends to be over-deprecated.
Posted by: Charlie | Thursday, 21 May 2015 at 02:12 PM