Today I worked from home and had no idea what to shoot. I had to pop out in the afternoon to go to Bartell’s to pick up something and while I was in the store I saw some bamboo potted plants. Now those who know me will tell you I am useless with plants, I can’t grow anything. There are those with green fingers, well I have death fingers. If it’s a plant and I touch it, it has days to live.
But I have a friend at work (Eric) who has one of these bamboo plants on his desk and it’s thriving and has been growing for the last two years (it’s now nearly 2 foot tall) and Eric tells me he doesn’t have to do anything with it, just keep the roots under water. So when I saw these plants I thought maybe I could keep one alive for a couple of weeks. Being the kind of guy who is always up for a challenge I got one.
Anyway at 5pm I had to go and get Abi from school (who was rehearsing for her school play) and I’m still wondering what to shoot. When I get home I walk in the door and see the bamboo plant and thought maybe I could make something interesting out of that.
Now I once heard the great Joe McNally say “If you want to make something look interesting, don’t light it all”, so I tried to keep the lighting low and subtle. Having said that I actually went from one light to three and took loads of different shots, but ironically the one I liked the best was one of the first single light shots.
So here is my picture for today, a bamboo potted plant that will be dead in two weeks.
Tonight was Halo card night and as I walked passed I heard Carter say “All In” and if I had his hand I would have done the same.
