The Pepper No.1
After reading an article in the Smithsonian on "Edward Watson" and famed Pepper No. 30 I was intriqued enough to begin my own pursuit of photographing a pepper (green). My first attempt, or several have not proved out a masterpiece as Watson described his. I will keep photographing the "pepper." Here are some excerpts from the article ...

August 1, 1930 ... "The glorious new pepper Sonya brought has kept me keyed up all week and caused me to expose eight negatives - I am not satisfied yet."

August 3, 1930 ... "I still had the pepper which caused me a week's work. I had decided I could go no further with it, yet something kept me from taking it to the kitchen, the end of all good peppers."

He further states ... "I tried the light from the opposite side in the next morning light - brilliant sun through muslin. Better! And more failures ... But the pepper is well worth all the time, money, effort ... It is beginning to show signs of strain and tonight should grace a salad. It had been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models."

On August 8, 1930 after printing the picture, he knew he had a masterpiece. He recalled the exposure: "Just as the light was failing - quickly made but with a week's previous effort back of my immediate, unhesitating decision. A week? - yes, on this certain pepper - but twenty-eight years of effort, starting with a youth on a farm in Michigan, armed with a No. 2 Bull's Eye Kodak, 3 1/2 by 3 1/2, have gone into the making of this pepper."

Edward Weston.com