I found the time this week to join in the fun of another Scavenger Hunt Sunday. Every Sunday photographer Ashley Sisk invites photography buffs to join her in interpreting five words or prompts in a photo. I love to combine my photos with some of my ...
Scavenger Hunt Sunday
It is time for Scavenger Hunt Sunday when Photographer/Blogger Ashley Sisk assigns list of items for participant's to interpret through photography. Here's this week's list: Dress Up Candy Fall Colors ...
Animals, as usual.
This was the perfect autumn morning for spending time with the animals and my camera. Extreme caution is always the order of the day with emus. They eat cameras for lunch! Everyone else takes it in stride. I am sure under their breath they are ...
Smokey Sunrise… gone wild!
The King Fire has raged in our neck of the woods for nearly two weeks. The smoke has created air quality of the worst extreme for us, forcing us indoors much of the time. Yesterday was the worst and I ventured out only to care for the farm animals. ...
Scavenger Hunt Sunday
It's that time again, Scavenger Hunt Sunday! Here are my interpretations of this week's items: 1. Table Setting 2. Flowers 3. Children 4. Running 5. Photographer’s Choice The items for next week ...
Scavenger Hunt Sunday!
Today is SCAVENGER HUNT SUNDAY and the items to interpret through a photograph are: home guilty pleasure lucky heart window These are my interpretations. Home is where his blanket is. Canon is my guilty ...
Book Give-a-way! Signed Copies of “Chickens in the Road”
Congratulations to the 4 winners of Chickens in the Road. Thank you to all who participated and we look forward to seeing you at the next giveaway. Michael and Mary O'Brien Farm blogger Suzanne McMinn from Chickens in the Road just ...
Rose Bushes 1, Deer 0
The rose garden has managed to escape the night-time marauding deer. The tomato plants have not been so lucky. The game camera will be out tonight to see how they are getting in. But, this is about the roses. The drift roses we planted along the ...
Lowell Ego lights
I have wanted a pair of Lowell Ego lights for tabletop photography since I first saw them. Frankly the price and the reviews scared me off. People described the assembly of the lights to be quite an ordeal, requiring the assistance of a second ...
Final food photography class.
I was given free access to a two week online food photography class and I just turned in the last assignment. I am not very pleased with my results but I was rushed for time becuase of this being a very busy weekend. Anyway we had to take a low key ...
I’m a tweaker, man.
Please bear with me as I tweak my website. I love the Wordpress theme I am using now but, as always, I want to make it my own. You might notice I replaced the beige background with a chicken wire image. I was missing my chicken wire. I spent ...
Food Photography for Bloggers, Week 2
On Sunday I submitted my photos for week two of the online class, Food Photography for Bloggers. The assignment this week was to work with two foods that had been difficult to photograph in the past. I chose meat and pie. After cooking, meat can ...
Food Photography for Bloggers, Week 1
Last week I started another class, Food Photography for Bloggers. It is being taught by the same instructor as my last class, but the emphasis is on photographing food for blogs. If you have been here more than once you can understand why I need this ...
Food Photography Class Week Four
These are the photos I submitted for the last assignment in my Introduction to Food Photography class, followed by the critiques. I have signed up for another class, Food Photography for Bloggers, so I will be back posting my assignments for the next ...
Food Photography Class – Week Three
On Sunday I submitted my photographs for the third assignment of my Food Photography class. One requirement was to shoot a translucent subject with backlighting. I chose seaweed sale. Critique: Nice job with the back lighting! Beautiful subject ...
Food Photography Class – Week Two
Today was the deadline to submit three photos for assignment two of my food photography class. Here was the task: Set up some simple still life images and shoot them from many different angles. When you think you have captured your subject every way ...
Food Photography Class
Growing ever more tired of my poor quality food photos, I recently enrolled in a four week, online Introduction to Food Photography class. Last week's assignment was to take food photographs using natural light and a reflector. We were instructed to ...
I’m a hoarder. It’s official.
No, I haven't been contacted by TLC to schedule filming an episode of Hoarders but I worked fifteen hours yesterday unpacking 43 boxes and I still have more. A lot more. Mostly kitchen stuff. Who needs that much kitchen stuff? I have a small kitchen. ...
This one’s for Mom…
I have done water bath canning of jams and jellies but my propane stove never seems to get a huge canner full of water to come to a full boil. I mentioned to my dad that I wanted to buy a pressure canner. No sooner had I hung the phone up than he ...
Playing with Food
Since getting new photography lighting I have been doing a lot of reading and practicing food shots. The first set-up was in my dining room which did not work at all. The table is huge and I couldn't get the lights close enough to the food. There are ...