apple orchard afternoon

We met my older brother and his family in southeastern Minnesota yesterday afternoon. Our destination was a local apple orchard. I decided to limit myself to my 50mm prime and my 100mm macro lenses for the event. I thought things turned out pretty well.



The little lady's new buzzcut:


Into a corn maze:


I nicknamed my oldest nephew "Captain Destroyer" because I noticed that he liked pulling corn off of stalks and tearing the stalks down. He thought that was pretty funny:


Lili was missing a few teeth. I don't think she was the only one:


There were also pumpkins that could be purchased from the fields:


In search of apples:


I pulled out my macro lens for a while and had a bit of fun with close-ups. Rotten apples:



Cool detail on my nephew's eyes. Too bad I can't do anything really high resolution here:


The macro lens works well for portraits and other things, too.



Since they were free, my brother started eating apples off the ground--gross. At least he was eating one off the tree in this photo (I think):