Sunday, October 18, 2009

Painted pumpkin


PAINTED PUMPKIN, CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN, GLENCOE, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER 18, 2009

Pentax *ist DS
Sigma 17-70 at 70mm
1/500 sec. f8
ISO 400

On the first sunny day in more than a week, we visited the Chicago Botanic Garden, where the best photographic possibilities this late in October were at the weekly Sunday vegetable sale, where Deborah Abbott photographed this colorful pumpkin -- glazed and painted in childlike fashion rather than carved into a jack o' lantern.

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