Probably the most popular items in the Open Fields Chilehead Raffle were these fantastic pepper x-rays and pictures done by Jeff Schickowski (the man behind the StepUpforCharity.org and WildPepper.com websites). With over 500+ raffle tickets and only 6 pepper pictures (plus other prizes) available, I knew the chances would be slim to none that a picture would be left on the table if one of my tickets was chosen (thanks for the John Deere cap CaJohn) so I spoke with Jeff and together we devised yet another way to help the man of steel out.
For a donation to Step Up for Charity of $5 per picture, the high-res versions of these pepper pictures will be emailed to you so that you can print out the image and make your own framed pepper picture. Imagine these beauties framed with a nice white or black matte around then and then on your wall.
Step Up For Charity Print Sales
Step Up For Charity Print Sales
Step Up For Charity Print Sales
Step Up For Charity Print Sales
Step Up For Charity Print Sales
Step Up For Charity Print Sales
These fantastic pepper x-rays and more pepper pictures are available for a $5 donation (per pepper picture) to Step Up here.
Thanks for your interest in helping one of my favorite people, Jim Campbell, to help others by way of his Step Up For Charity fund raising efforts.
At this year’s Open Fields event, hosted by Saint Jim, a raffle was held to help raise money. Among the prizes were these prints of X-rays of actual peppers and they were gone pretty quick! The interest shown has prodded me to offer the files for sale, with all proceeds to go directly to the Step Up efforts.
Each print can be purchased for a $5.00 donation through PayPal. Once your donation is received, I will email the file to you and you can print it yourself, either at home or through your local WalMart or other photo processor. The only stipulations I have for their use is that you print them for yourself, use them for your computer desktop, or generally enjoy them. You are not given permission to produce them for sale to others or for commercial use of any kind. Additional licensed use can be negotiated if desired.
If you’d like to make a donation without purchasing a print you can do that here.
Thanks again for your interest,
Jeff Schickowski
65 responses to “Step Up For Charity: Pepper Pictures”
These are some very cool pics!
very very cool
may i ask the size of the pics (meg?)
what do you think the largest size you can print them is? will you provide names of what type of pepper each pic is?
The images are approximately 25 megabyte .BMP formatted images (smaller when zipped for emailing).
The actual pepper images are approximately 5×7 inches with a white border that brings it up to 8×10 inches at 300 DPI (or larger at lower resolution). They look great in an 11×14 frame and black mat board.
If you have a preference for another format that can certainly be arranged.
If you’re interested I’ll certainly let you know what kind of peppers they are.
thanks for the info.
what do you have to do to get a nickname like “Saint” ? 😀
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Just do everything Jim does and you’re getting there 🙂
Those are very cool. I just got the second one down.
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Jeff,
Can we get them in a RAW, TIFF or JPG format as well??
I’m thinking I’ll take one of each if you can give me one of those formats
Let me know.
Thanks!
i second UBK’s comment. i want all. 🙂
UBK, can you “name those peppers?”
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Not right now, I’m on a conference call.
Let me think on this.
What do I win if I’m right?? A Fallen Angel Set? 😉
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TIFF and JPG are no problem… I can get them in DICOM format for anyone wanting to display the original x-ray format on a medical archive system 😉 drop me a note if you’d like any different formats. It’ll have to wait til I get home tonight though.
the proto set. LOL
I’ll give em to you when you meet me at the finish line.
along with my shoes and socks if you want em.
hey parker, look, i reached “420” posts. 😀
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What are you trying to say troy?
just trying to get your attention to see if you’re out there. been missing you with no return emails.
This Look great in my office on glossy paper!!! Great job guys
Nice Pics…. Dougie (yes, the truth) donated 🙂
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I’m sure I’m going to embarrass myself by trying to identify a 1 dimensional black and white X ray of chile peppers (of which there are hundreds), but what the hell, I’m game if you are. Here’s my guess:
Pic 1 and 2
Ancho and a New Mex (pic 2 is inverse exposure)
Pic 3
Habanero
Pic 4
Red Savina Habanero
Pic 5
Datil
Pic 6
Jalapeno
I’m sure I’m completely wrong, but the more I stare at those pics, the more confused I’m becoming.
If Jim or Jeff would clarify what I’m looking at, that would be great.
Regardless, this is one hell of a great idea. I’ll be in touch for sure.
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Pic 1: Correct
Pic 2: Correct
Pic 3, 4, and 5: All orange habs and #5 is “Pregnant” (small pod within normal pod)
Pic 6: Yellow “Wax Pepper” as labeled at the grocery store
Pretty darn good for a non-radiologist! Of course it would have helped if they were all shown to scale.
I think one of the most interesting aspects of these pics is how you can see the seed distribution… from a cluster at the stem end to those with seeds scattered throughout.
1 and 2 – dont have a clue (maybe a skinny bell pepper and serrano)
3 and 4, i agree with you
5 chinese
6 bhut jolokia
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So other than missing the nit picky details on the Habs (that pregnant pod threw me off) and being wrong on the Jalapeno, UB did pretty good hey general?
I was more right than you, so I’m good with that.
See you at the finish line general!
Jeff, are these chiles sliced open or whole? You’ll have to forgive me if this is a stupid question, I know nothing about x-rays.
bring a nose clip. 😀
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These are completely whole. I didn’t know what the results were going to look like until the image was done.
I tried to lay them out so that the resulting image would be as artistic as possible… making sure the stems were in profile, pod shape was recognizable, etc… but what was going on inside the pod was a complete mystery. I just got lucky in getting the “pregnant” hab shot.
how do peppers get pregnant?
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Lee, have you ever had an Xray? Did they cut you open to take it? 😉
All I know about X rays is, the room is usually freezing and make sure you cover your ‘nads if you ever want to have kids, or wear lead underwear.
These pics rock, this is one hell of an idea. I like the whole X ray thing, like that Ministry album cover for The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste, too cool.
Rock on!!
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First you take the peter pepper, and grasp firmly but kindly. Once the seeds spill out you approach….. And you can take it the rest of the way (if you choose to) 🙂
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Candle light………A little fertilizer…………..some Barry White……….and it’s sexy time!!
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Wow, that was effectively graphic. Well done.
So…what’d you name the baby pepper? 😉
i guess the male peppers have an abnormally high sperm count?
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I called it “Snack” and it’s mama was “Lunch”
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Nice. Aptly named and I’m sure the entire family was scrumpdillyicious!
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have you ever eaten 3 or more hab’s and thought they were delightful?
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Yes, but they were basic Orange ones and they were mixed in with other stuff. I’ve never cared much for just munching raw peppers.
my thoughts exactly.
who’s x ray machine did you use?
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I work for the VA Hospital in Milwaukee, WI and have been an X-ray Tech for nearly 30 years. For the last 8 I’ve managed their computers instead of patients but still have full access to the machines.
Wow, awesome pics! I will definitely have to order some, whenever I find the time. Very cool idea, Jeff, and very well executed from the looks of it. You could start a “line” of artwork, featuring all x-ray’d chiles!
how many varieties of fresh peppers can you get your hands on? maybe you can get a whole slew of em and do pics like these and make a coffee table book out of em with scientific name, description, etc.
i am sure it would do well with all these chiliheads on the blog here.
all profits go to step up? just a thought.
[Comment ID #114095 Quote]Smart-ass Canadian. You know Canada is just America’s hat, right? Lol. I just couldn’t believe how well they turned out – it looks like they were sliced in half.
[Comment ID #114108 Quote]That is a fantastic idea. It could have a regular picture, and x-ray so you can see the insides, a picture of the plant. Then you could do the scientific name, common names and uses, scoville rating, and a sauce recipe! Jim, you should do it for Step up!
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Chiles… The Inside Story!
I don’t have access to much but with the help of a few well places chilehead amigos from here and other lists we could probably come up with quite an assortment.
How about a color photo overlay, and when you flip it back there’s an x-ray of the same pepper underneath? Sounds expensive but fun.
“I like the whole X ray thing, like that Ministry album cover for The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste, too cool.”
Uncle, you’re a Ministry fan? Awesome!
Y’all can’t truly appreciate how talented this Jeff guy is 🙂 He’s also even more modest than me! He does the Open Fields posters as well (all except one) and refuses to take anything for all the work he’s done on the StepUp site.
The pics really don’t do credit to the things either. When they were laid out on the table at Open Fields, jaws dropped & everyone went ‘whooooh’. They were the first six items chosen IIRC, even ahead of some nice pottery and plates!
I can’t possibly thank he (or Nick!) enough for all they’ve done.
Loading up the truck & headed down to Gatlinburg to party for the weekend with CaJohn & crew before the CHRISTmas season rush hits.
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Stop it Jim… People won’t believe a thing you say about me anyway…
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Well if Canada is the hat, what would that make Colorado?? The butt crack of North America?? I wear my pants low to recognize my incarcerated brothers from another mother. I’m just kidding ya, hope things are well in CO. Give Danny a slap in the head for me would ya?
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I’d buy that FOR SURE. I’d even sell them up here in the store. Very cool idea.
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But of course UB likes Ministry, Skinny Puppy too Creator.
I used to have long hair dontchaknow. I’m still a closet head banger (not that there’s anything wrong with that) even though our new baby prefers Chamber Music (ick).
I’m seeing these pics on a t shirt. You should X ray Jim biting into the peppers and pop that on a t shirt. That would be way cool.
hey jim, with all your free time, maybe with your vast resources, you can get some or your grower buddies and contribute some fine specimens aafter next years harvest and got Jeff to do the xrays and sell the books at FF and ZF.
then maybe after that book went to the top seller list, do a “where’s pepper” instead of “where’s waldo?” concept book.
maybe a pepper dressed in swimsuit calender?
“Well if Canada is the hat, what would that make Colorado?? The butt crack of North America?? I wear my pants low to recognize my incarcerated brothers from another mother. I’m just kidding ya, hope things are well in CO. Give Danny a slap in the head for me would ya?”
We’re doing great, buddy. You? How’s the family?
[Comment ID #114118 Quote]Okay, but for March it’s gotta be Pepperman in his pepper suit with a bikini on, laying sideways posing on a table drinking a beer! Ug, that’s wrong.
you thought it first you vegetablephyle.
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Family is great, weather sucks. Workin’ on some new stuff.
Lovin’ the pic ideas. I can see a whole line of xray peppers products.
name 21
Is it me or when you look at the fifth Pepper picture long enough, I swear I see Anthony!!!
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21? I’m trying to work here. Customers to look after.
There’s more than 21 ideas for these products.
Jim and Jeff need to make this happen.
I’ll give Jim my ideas directly, thank you very much.
It’ll be our little secret. 😉
Oh look at that according to my watch, it’s 4:20, gotta run.
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Why? Is he pregnant too? Enough hot sauce may cause mutations!
Mr. Nick Lindauer:
I also have an idea for a show for the Food Network, specifically for the overworked Bobby “BBQ” Flay. I’ll settle for any other chef for this idea, though. I contacted the Food Network website, and learned that they only take ideas from Production Studios. I have a cousin in LA who is a Producer himself. Maybe we could pitch the ideas to him! Good luck and let me know if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Mike Carrieri
Oh! By the way, my favorite hot sauce is Pepper Plant Sauce from here in California. My other favorites: Sriracha (the rooster), 100% Pain (a punch in the gut!), Tapatio, and Tabasco.
Mike
I have just bought the photos, going to look great in my office, but need them sending to a different email address other than my ebay one!
Could you please send them to enquiries@chileseeds.co.uk
Thanks
Gerald
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Files have been sent to the email address requested. Thanks!
Just came through, thanks
If we guess the name of the pepper right do we win a prize, forfeited to charity of course…..
The guessing took place about 40 comments ago but if you promise not to cheat you can guess again…
Love the pics. Gonna pay for my laptop background real soon. (I’m poor.) ((. . . Saw the original x-ray pics up close and in person at the raffle.)) (((They were gone by the time my number was called but I still made out.)))
Now put away the Ministry and put on some Pantera, would ya? <—that little smiley thing here.