Let’s make soup

This stall in the weekly fresh produce market at Perigueux has everything you need to make one of the most comforting soups for an autumn or winter’s day.. And they all – potatoes, leeks and onions – grow in the earth.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Harvest earth

Tuesdays of Texture: Fruit Salad

On the outskirts of Limoges, a forty-minute drive from here, is a shopping centre which has a branch of ‘Grand Frais’ (literally ‘big fresh’). Here it’s possible to buy fruit and vegetables of more exotic origins than are generally available in supermarkets.

Tuesdays of Texture 4 July 2017

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Healthy

This week, Frank has chosen the theme of ‘Healthy’ for his Tuesday Photo Challenge. A bit tricky, but this greengrocer’s stall in the Rialto Market in Venice has an abundance of stuff that’s supposed to be good for you:

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Healthy

Macro Moments: Week 35 – Pineapple

It usually comes out of a can, of course, but the surface of a fresh pineapple is fascinating when viewed in close-up.

Nikon D800 with Nikkor 105mm f2.8 macro lens. 1/20 at f8 ISO4000. Cropped and edited in Lightroom.

More macro images at Susan Gutterman’s macro challenge here: Macro Moments: Week 35

52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 2 – Food

This year we are inundated with blackberries and there are plenty more to come. These may not be quite at the ‘food’ stage yet, but they soon will be:

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52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 2 – Food

Hugh’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Week 21 – Fresh

It probably doesn’t get much fresher than this colourful display of salad leaves at the Rialto Market in Venice:

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Hugh’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh

Detail from a display of fresh fruit and vegetables at the Rialto market in Venice.

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Posted in response to the latest WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge