mock mock orange
I've always called these things mock oranges, but they're NOT. They're MOCK mock oranges!
Okay, they're just plain osage-oranges.
But they're as big as pomelos, and they're lying all over the Joe Palaia Park extension!
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very cool, josy... and i love that the construction/composition transforms scale so effectively... it really does 'read' as a very large object...
Actually they are "Osage Orange" and part of a dense hedge. The Native Americans used the wood on bow making. We just call them "hedge apples."
This is an excellent shot. It seriously looks huge. Like, gigantic. As usual, mgilpin expresses it well, but in this case, I believe it deserves more gusto.
I don't know if it works especially well on me because I am not familiar with those things, so I don't have any preconception of what its size should be.
Really great shot. I mean, besides the size thing, you've got wonderful colors, nice lighting, huge depth, interesting details all over the place, drawing the eye here and there without seeming jumbled or busy. An instant favorite for me.
I grew up in West Belmar, and all along a main road that led to the river from high on a hill, were these green, bumpy things. We used to throw them and they would squish open with white milk of some kind coming out, we were told not to eat it or put it in our mouth as it was poison. We called then Mock Oranges in the 1950s. Size about that of a large Navel orange, to a small Cantalope.
Oh, and they grew high up in trees.
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