(SI) Round, Round We Go explained.

The mandate Jim chose was a good opportunity for me to illustrate how the
visual and tactile can meld.

I chose the apple and the cup because I knew the bumpy, translucent
material of the cup would produce an interesting highlight pattern, as long
as the exposure was controlled. If I set the flash too high, the background
tended to gray out so much that the highlights weren't very pronounced.
And, of course, if I underexposed too much, there was nothing to see.

While the final result is a bit dark, I think it does a good job of
conveying how using the sense of touch can produce a subject / background
combination as visually distinctive as it is tactually interesting.

I hope everyone enjoyed the pic.

Take Care,
Dudley