ENTRY DESCRIPTION
I am a grape farmer.
These grapes are the latest variety, called Queen Rouge.
I am not yet familiar with the cultivation method, so I failed to grow them.
When I say failure, I actually failed when I tried to shape the latest variety into a wreath. This shaping takes three months, so it is a very delicate task.
Anyway, I took this photo with my eyes peeking through the holes in the wreath, filled with the regret of my failure.

AUTHOR
Masumi Shiohara was born in 1974 in Nagano, Japan. He worked at a micro-machining company as a development engineer. After leaving the company, he took over the management of the family orchard from his parents and is now running a farm. While growing fruit here he became interested in capturing them into works of photographic art, a skill which he picked up by himself. The inspiration to capture these photographically originally came when he was requested to supply fruit on a branch to a botanical artist - since then he has continued producing photographic art works of fruit on a branch. He is printing ‘the works like botanical art with white back ground’ on vellum of genuine parchment, and ‘the works with a black background’ on glossy paper. From now on, he is keen to present works with the theme of the importance and value of food another line of work he is involved in.

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