Weekly Competition #93 - Vegetables, comments

Prieni
Posted 13/04/2009 - 10:02 Link
This is the place to discuss this week's competition theme...

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foxycce
Posted 13/04/2009 - 14:05 Link
ok great, Time to get down the market me thinks.
Darkmunk
Posted 15/04/2009 - 15:23 Link
Can we include fruit?
Can it be any vegetable matter? (you used the word 'healthy', so I guess not)
...both my ideas are a little on the edge of the brief.
Hyram
Posted 15/04/2009 - 16:46 Link
I assumed that fruit does not qualify and that vegetable plants without any vegetables on them (as yet) would not qualify
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mikew
Posted 15/04/2009 - 17:07 Link
Gee if we are discriminating between fruit and veg where does that leave a tomato?

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Hyram
Posted 15/04/2009 - 17:18 Link
This a quote from Wikipedia :-

"Due to the scientific definition of a fruit, the tomato remains a fruit when not dealing with US tariffs. Nor is it the only culinary vegetable that is a botanical fruit: eggplants, cucumbers, and squashes of all kinds (such as zucchini and pumpkins) share the same ambiguity."

More confusion
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Aiki
Posted 15/04/2009 - 17:24 Link
Hyram wrote:
vegetable plants without any vegetables on them (as yet) would not qualify
I didnt understand at all

Language problem here?
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mikew
Posted 15/04/2009 - 17:25 Link
Oh no not zucchini - I'm stuffed (which is what I planned for the zucchini )

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mikew
Posted 15/04/2009 - 17:27 Link
Aiki wrote:
Hyram wrote:
vegetable plants without any vegetables on them (as yet) would not qualify
I didnt understand at all

Language problem here?
What he means is it would probably be no good taking a photograph of a pea plant where the peas aren't yet formed just the flowers (I tried to think of a better example but struggled!).

Actually it opens another problem. What about photographing a beetroot plant where you can't see the root in the ground?

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Aiki
Posted 15/04/2009 - 17:29 Link
Hyram wrote:
This a quote from Wikipedia :-

"Due to the scientific definition of a fruit, the tomato remains a fruit when not dealing with US tariffs. Nor is it the only culinary vegetable that is a botanical fruit: eggplants, cucumbers, and squashes of all kinds (such as zucchini and pumpkins) share the same ambiguity."

More confusion
Botanically fruits, of course. Who cares !
This way cauliflower is a group of blossoms
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Aiki
Posted 15/04/2009 - 17:33 Link
oh my god, do not make any scientific problems out of a contest theme

I quite believe, Prieni does not mind, until the pic is good!
I understand that the object should be eatable !
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mikew
Posted 15/04/2009 - 17:38 Link
I agree with Aiki and I'm not going to worry too much. I think I'll avoid apples but will include peppers for example.

Cauliflower eatable? You'll be suggesting brocolli next.

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mr.mellow
Posted 16/04/2009 - 09:49 Link
I dislike Cauliflower but I like the look and taste the Romanesc variety, see my entry and also another in the gallery.
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mikew
Posted 16/04/2009 - 09:55 Link
Dave I have seen both and very good they are too. Never tasted that variety. Actually I find cauliflower is quite nice in all it's guises.

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mikew
Posted 20/04/2009 - 09:07 Link
This is what I should have entered - too much reliance placed on expert advisers!

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