another confession to be made (the heaviest post ever with lots of images of apples)

(taken with nikon f on fuji superia 400)

hi.

so, i told you about my chronic addiction related to food and photography yesterday, and today i have to make another confession also about food and photography.
today, it's all about one particular food; apples.

some of you may know that how much i love to shoot apples.
but not many of you may know exactly how i love to.
also whenever, wherever i am and with whichever cameras.

all began just after i got my first old camera, nikon f in the early fall of 2007.
i shot apples in the top picture with it around that time.


(same as the top)

with my old nikon f, i had to tell good-bye to my nikon digital camera which i used to use till then, and i started to walk on a new road having continued long before me.
good-bye digital, hello analog!
the rusticity of the "f" and the antiqueness of the images were pretty enough to force me to go that way.



(taken with contax rts on fuji superia 400)

in the late fall of 2007, the 1 year anniversary after my dad's death was held in japan.
and i didn't hesitate to shoot the apples dedicated to my dad's commemoration.


(taken with nikon f on rdplll)

i love these apples with dark red skin in japan, and when i went back there this past spring, i bought a lot of them because of the reduced price, and ate them row and made them into compote.
having that with homemade yogurt was so good.
( i was making apple compote in the picture. i made that with skin for me, and without skin for my mom who was hospitalized at that time.)



(taken with hasselblad 500c on ilford xp2 super 400)

in summer time, i like to do picnics in some parks around my town on weekend.



(taken with minolta autocord lll on fuji 160s)


(taken with sx-70 on 600 film)

and almost all the price reduction on apples makes me buy them a lot around fall.
fuji apples were rolling on the floor in 2008, and sitting well-mannered in a paper bag in 2009.



(taken with nikon fe2 on kodachrome 64)

in the wintertime, i love to spend plentiful time inside to gaze at and shoot apples on the table.
i loved the color which kodak kodachrome 64, which is the one of the traditional films, rendered in the winter of 2008.
and at that time, i didn't have any idea of its disappearing future sometime soon.



(taken with nikon fe2 on kodachrome 64)

with my favorite kodachrome 64, i flew to italy in the mid may of 2009, and i shot my first apples in italy on the first day there, needless to say.



(taken with nikon f on kodachrome 64)

and continuously, i shot apples on the first day of the trip around italy this year, too.
of course, on my buddy, kodachrome 64.
i can't help being melancolic with the fact that i can shoot on kodachrome 64 only within this year.
(kodak announced that they quited producing the film last year or so, and the only lab which has the skill and the equipment to develop this special film also announced that they were going to take the film only in this year. so pratically, kodachrome 64 is destined to vanish at the end of this year. sad.)



(taken with box type polaroid on 600 film)

as i love to travel with apples, they are always with me.
i love an apple sitting on the edge by the window of a hotel room.
it looked irresistibly lovely in a bay area hotel near san francisco in the early april of 2008.



(taken with box type polaroid on 600 film)

and adorable as well in a virginia hotel near dc in the summer of 2008.



(taken with nikon fe2 on agfa 100)

a white pillow and a bed sheet glittering with morning ray became an red apple in an oregon hotel sometime in 2008.



(taken with sx-70 on 600 film)

once in a while, the mischievous ideas to play with an apple and a camera visit me.
i exposed a polaroid film twice on white plastic flowers and then a red apple sometime in 2009.



(taken with hasselblad 500c on polaroid 669)

i shot an apple on a polaroid peel-apart film and then manipulated it on a rough paper other time.



(same as the above)

next, on a cotton cloth and ripped the apple.
i love a ripped apple.



(taken with sx-70 on 600 film)

well, i think i've done quite a nice job to collect these images from my album though i haven't sorted my all images by objects.
the reason why i decided to make the confession in such a troublesome way is that i got one of my cook book orders this morning, and it's front page is the image of an apple.
and i noticed that i placed the book in an order probably because of the apple image on the front.
i made sure how i've loved apples, then i dared to get involved in this troublesome post here.

now, it's the time to enjoy the book, i think. ;)
oh, fyi, the book i got this morning is this.