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This year the oranges in the cloister of the Pedralbes monastery in Barcelona are cracked due to the climatic imbalances we have. I have photographed them with the reflection technique for this report in La Vanguardia's Readers' Photos.
The drought is noticeable in many ways, not only with the images of the half-empty swamps in Catalonia. And one is this. In summer, the orange tree and its fruit suffered from a lack of water, the orange skin did not grow as it should be (meaning normal in conditions without water stress).
This way, the orange is smaller. It has grown less. But, when rainy days come in autumn, like these last ones when we have had several storms in a row, the orange tree then consumes too much water. We could say that he even gets fed up.
It is at that moment when the orange begins to swell, but it does so so much that the skin cannot withstand the rapid fattening of the fruit and ends up bursting.
The thermal contrast also helps to produce this phenomenon of seeing how the oranges crack. Sometimes, we just have to look around us to notice how nature is giving us more and more signs of the consequences of climate change, even with small details like cracked oranges.
These oranges are a reflection of the vagaries of the weather, so what better than to photograph it with the reflection technique?
