awkward eight: those are the biggest strawberries ever.

A fresh produce stand caught my eye with extraordinarily huge strawberries they had next to the road. They almost resemble watermelons. Almost.



While I don't usually pay attention to fruit stands, I noticed this one because it is surrounded by totem poles. In case you are interested, their pears are imported from Argentina. The woman who worked the stand spotted me with my camera decided to brag about her Arteninian fruit.

rust and oranges.

"If you jump the fence on the end of this road, you can see an old school house that they are going to tear down."

This is what a woman walking her dog told me when she saw me taking photos at a rusty barn. "They" being the city, and she obviously isn't happy about the plans to level the old buildings. "I live on the end of this street, when the pavement ends and the dirt road begins. The city bought out every one of these old buildings so that they can level it and build shopping malls."

Well I haven't done much perusing in Estero of US 41, so all she had to do was drop the bait of "jumping a fence" and I was there. I feel like I get the best photos when I probably shouldn't be somewhere. Not only did I discover the school she mentioned, but when I came back to my car, the woman was still hanging around. As I tried to not get eaten by her hyper, oversized dog, she informed me that the house behind me is vacant because the woman who lived there died. "Used to be a really nice barn and house, now look at it. 'They' are tearing it down too."

What was striking was the contrast of this run down home and the surrounding vibrantly colored oranges. It really is a shame that the city feels the need to level land that has such old houses and history that goes along with them.

awkward seven: where are you pointing?

Here is yet another discovery from one of my infamous wanderings around downtown Ft. Myers and Martin Luther King Blvd. This door is a back entrance of what I believe to be an abandoned building, and it does not render too much to talk about. All I know is it is worth posting because of it's random absurdity. What is the orange arrow pointing to? The orange splotch? What is this for?

Who decided to highlight an orange mark on a door frame with an arrow? Someone isn't one for discreteness.

through the eyes of a fish.

One of my favorite lenses is called the fisheye. It is a separate piece that screws onto the end of my Nikon's lens. The fisheye lens is a type of wide-angle lens that offers a unique effect to an image.

I use a 'full frame' fisheye lens, which offers a wide angle view of my subject. Sometimes it's just fun to switch things up and use a different type of lens.

A fun fact: Fisheye lenses are used in door peep holes.

At times, a friend will ask me to take a picture of them with my fisheye that I affectionately call my Fish. "Eugenia, can you use that bubble-type-lens-thing." I always know exactly what they are trying to get at.

This month marks one year of owning my Fish (and only dropping it once).