A Dandy in Aspic

Or a Poem in garlic.   I wanted to shoot the garlic coming up and I wanted to get Poem in the shot; I told her to sit and I lay down in the garlic bed with a Nikon 14-24mm zoom lens, at a focal length of 14mm, on my D700.  Here, the camera is almost on the ground and the lens about 14" from Poem's nose.  At three frames a second, in several bursts, with Poem always in motion, I took 79 exposures to get one I  could work with.   Back at the computer in Adobe Lightroom, I used a graduated filter on the sky to bring out the moodiness of the day.

Last Saturday, a guy asked me if I had any garlic yet.  "It's coming," I told him,  "when it's in, you can order it from Garlic Department  of the General Store if you can't get to the stand."