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Lady Pink Apple Slices with Lemons—When I made this image, I was spending much of my creative time photographing slices of fruits and vegetables on my light box. I was lucky enough to score some beautiful Pink Lady apples and a few variegated pink lemons.

One of the most difficult things about photographing backlit fruit slices is cutting them thin enough. To achieve this, I used a mandoline food slicer. If you try this at home, please be very, very careful!

I started with the apple slice in the center of the image. This slice itself shows partial symmetry around a vertical medial axis. From the central slice, I enlarged the composition using ...

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