Project 52 – Week 8 – Photographer’s Choice

I am a 4th generation native to California.  My mom’s generation was the last to own fruit farms in the central valley.  I have so many memories of playing in the orchards and now, although my family are no longer farmers, I have close relatives who still own a lot of land that is used for growing peaches, nectarines, grapes, almonds, etc.  Anyway, last weekend we took the boys to visit my Aunt and cousins and the peach trees were in bloom so I knew that I wanted to take some pictures there.  The fact that Clayton found his cousins astronaut costume and that the 12 year old cat “Dynomite” would want to be involved in my impromptu photo shoot was a total happy accident. 

This image is edited a little more extreme than my typical style but I was feeling the scene was almost other worldly and wanted to my edit to enhance that a bit.  But the story still goes along with my goal of keeping my P52 about real life as it’s happening right now – the shot may look and feel a bit stylized but I assure you it was real life!  The prompt I used this image for was Week 8:  Photographer’s Choice.