Kevin Mackintosh, Photographer, London

Description

A still life photograph presents a perfume bottle surrounded by figs, branches, and insects. The clear glass perfume bottle with a black cap stands atop a slender, mossy branch. A halved fig, its vibrant red interior exposed, sits below the bottle. A partially eaten fig rests on another branch above the bottle. The branches have small bits of moss. A couple of dead insects appear at the base of the image on the neutral surface. The backdrop is a light gray, slightly textured. The image employs a shallow depth of field, drawing focus to the perfume bottle and the figs.