Week 87 "Bound"

I made this image a few days ago. It was just a sudden thing. I had thought I’d make an image of my husband’s 29 babies - his tomato plants, grown from seed saved from last year. This year he planted 29 seeds and 29 came up. Last year he thought he planted 30, and 89 came up. We thought there would be an abundance of tomatoes, but they didn’t do that well. He planted the seeds in seed raising mix and then potted them on into little peat pots which are supposed to break down in the soil. The idea is to plant the seedling, pot and all, and the pot breaks down. The pots didn’t break down so the roots were sadly compromised. We gave quite a few away, and said nothing when people told us their tomatoes hadn’t done very well! The thought was there. This year we’ll do it differently. The seedings will not be planted in the pots, so the  roots should develop properly. What a long story, and nothing to do with this week’s image, because the tiny plants didn’t photograph well enough. Sorry, back to the point.....

When I came back inside the sun was on exactly the right place in the late afternoon to catch the spiral binding on a notebook I had left open on the back of the couch in the living room. We photographers all know how quickly the sun moves so it was a mad dash for the camera and macro again (I’m making a habit of this) before the sun moved away and the book wouldn’t have been at the right height anymore. I made a few exposures, but this one seemed to me to have the most interesting composition. After a few exposures I realised the white balance was set to something weird and the white pages had rendered an unattractive smoky yellow, hence the decision to lose the colour.