Our Pomegranate Crop（我們的石榴）

Have you seen pomegranate flowers（石榴花）? They are surprisingly elegant! We didn’t know that we had a happy pomegranate bush in our front yard for years until we saw our first baby pomegranate, it was because we had no idea what its flowers look like. We just thought that that anonymous bush bloomed those vibrant red flower like crazy every year.

And of course we can’t talk about our pomegranate crop without showing you a photo of our pomegranate. Unfortunately, ours are for decoration only. They never grow bigger than a tennis ball and taste acidic (although very pomegranate).

I took those two photos at my new camera’s Intelligent Auto (or iA) shooting mode. It sounds quite a mouthful, but what it really means is that all you have to do is to focus on your subject and shoot. That’s it. It automatically calculates where the target is, and it picks the best mode and shutter speed and all that. I’ve been testing its limited manual settings at its Normal mode, next-to-zero-manual-control scene selection modes, and the iA mode, and I think that it’s safe to say that you can just leave it at the iA mode for most situations (even for video shooting!). And with its powerful lens, everyone can be a good amateur photographer without any assistant software.