I hesitate to post photos because I don't like to copy them religiously.  I take them so that I can save a particular still life set up or for something to be a general guideline, but I do not like to copy it totally so that it looks exactly like a photo.  Why do that, when we have cameras?  For this reason, I like to avoid people comparing the painting with the photo.  The beauty of art is that we can enhance photos and make the colors more splendid through the different mediums.  However, my artistic thing for today was setting up a few still lives to draw and eventually paint.  So I will go ahead and share one of those photos.  I collected a few Celtic things around the house, (we're all very proud of our heritage and collect all things Irish) and set this up in my room.