Guest photographer Jeffrey Scott calls this image “Two Pears.” I found the photo in Black & White magazine, current edition. December 2025. He is from Greenwood Village, Colorado.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor, Blogfinger.net. Ocean Grove, NJ. USA.
Jeffrey Scott currently lives on Long Island. Like me, he does both color and black and white. This image appeals to me because of the soft lighting. It is a simple still life with no pretensions. The feel of the image is sensual. The shades of gray complement the mood where the modest highlights on the pears agree with the rest of the gentle composition which reveals a handmade quality to the bowl with the background painted leaves and olives.
It looks like an image that I might try to make. (See my soft landscape below of Fletcher Lake)
Fletcher Lake. Ocean Grove winter, 2015. Paul Goldfinger
Below is a link to a Blogfinger post that features a fruit—a black and white image by the great Paul Caponigro:
BF post featuring a fruit by a famous photographer
And here is a still life of mine with a lighthearted theme:
DAVE BRUBECK with some gentle jazz: Leonard Bernstein. “Somewhere”. Paul Desmond on alto sax.