What can you do with a bell pepper?

I mean, besides eat it.  The photographer Edward Weston took a very famous photo of a bell pepper, after which the unfortunate vegetable ended up in his salad.  Here you see another pre-salad bell pepper rather close up. I illuminated it from behind with a single light bulb, using blue-purple construction paper as a background. A white card reflected some light onto the front side of the pepper. Producing a compelling image of an everyday object such as a pepper requires no special lighting equipment or fancy backgrounds, just some imagination and experimentation.

Bell Pepper, Canon 450D, Tamron 90mm macro lens