Green Tomatoes and Basil

It was a grey overcast morning a few days ago so I decided to grab my camera and macro lens and go wondering to see if anything caught my eye.

My MIL gave us a couple of tomato plants as she had quite a few of them, and they have been sitting on our deck waiting to be planted in our veggie garden.

I walked past the plants on the deck and noticed we had some tomatoes growing on them, so decided to make them my subject.  It was an extra bonus that the deck chairs were right beside them so I sat down for a good 1/2 hour and snapped away.  The kids thought I was crazy sitting beside a tomato plant and taking photos.

Half way through I remembered a great tip about using a water bottle to spray water on flowers, so I went inside grabbed my daughters spray bottle that she uses on her dolls hair.  My daughter didn’t seem very impressed that I was using her water bottle on the plants.  Wait until she sees me using it on cobwebs, mmm maybe I will have to be sneaky for that one so she doesn’t see me.

These were all taken with my Vivitar 55mm f2.8, which is a vintage/legacy SLR lens.  It's fully manual, so focusing can be a bit hard at times but I love it.