First Quarter Butternut

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Butternut squash in first quarter phase.

I have some lovely butternut squash, but these are not those. I shot these black and whites with film about a decade ago using butternuts from my garden.

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Butternut Squash, last quarter phase.

I love their shapes, so voluptuous and sensual, and reminding me so much of the moon in her phases.

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Butternut, full of mystery.

And those twirling tendrils, both the tendrils and the shadows they cast, delicate but definite.

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Butternut has landed.

I still scan my black and whites in full color, and they appear here in RGB, not grayscale, to maintain the integrity of all the gray values. At one point I had thought the resolution and detail of these scans was fine, but now I’m considering a negative scanner to capture all those black and whites.

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