Strawberry Surprise

When I started messing around with strawberries the other night I thought to myself (as I do with all photoshoots), "I'll upload my favourite one or two and see what people think."  Within 12 hours my photo Straw Barry Meets His Maker had 180 favourites and now, just 36 hours later, it has over 700 and I have gained about 20 new watchers.  Cannibalism is also set to become my 2nd most popular photograph.  No deviation of mine has ever even been half as popular as these too.  Thank you all - I especially appreciate those of you who have taken the time to look at my other photographs too

I'm in a bit of a spin about it - I have shyed away from success and popularity all my life. I enjoy it but feel guilty for it and get incredibly embarrassed when people compliment me.  I only ever attended one school prizegiving in my life when my mum made me go and once burst into tears when I won a game of Monopoly.  Yes, I'm weird.

A few people who I would consider friends on here have become popular and completely changed for the worse because of it - when you have hundreds/thousands of watchers telling you you're awesome it's easy to become lazy and start believing that you are God's gift to photography.  I decided I was only going to submit those 2 strawberry photos because I didn't want to become a one track record but then julietcaesar said "Why stop something that everyone likes, and you like to do too?" and I think she was right.  

So... there will be more fruit pictures coming soon.  I have a few ideas up my sleeve.  But I'll only be submitting the ones that I think are good enough.  Once I run out of ideas it'll back to my "boring" usual work

Some shameless self-promotion:
Our new shiny website www.creativecaptures.co.uk
Our dA page:
Our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/home.php#/pag…

My 20 theme challenge
1.) Come Back to Camden - Morrissey
2.) Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode
3.) Weak As I Am - Skunk Anansie
4.) The Certainty of Chance - The Divine Comedy
5.) Asleep - The Smiths
6.) Pierrot the Clown - Placebo
7.) I'll Take the Rain - REM
8.) El Tango de Roxanne from Mouline Rouge Soundtrack
9.) Melissa - The Allman Brothers Band
10.) Ride On - Christy Moore
11.) Fuel - Metallica
12.) Black - Pearl Jam
13.) Join Me in Death - HIM
14.) Unforgiven II - Metallica
15.) Last Dance - The Cure
16.) Driven Under - Seether
17.) Gates of Dawn - Secret Garden
18.) The Point of No Return from The Phantom of the Opera
19.) You Can Close Your Eyes - James Taylor
20.) An Afternoon's Debauchery - David Gray

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