Photo Walk Chicago – Trees
I shot this when returning back from my photo walk session. I believe this is in Millennium park.
Photo walk Chicago – Agora sculpture
More information on Agora sculpture here.
Located at Chicago Grant Park along the Michigan Av. and Roosevelt Rd.
Photo 365: Day 143 – Sarah Bernhardt Peony
I was pleasantly surprised this evening when I saw all the blooms in my yard – it’s been just 2 days since I was out of town and it just feels like a long time.
All the peonies were in full bloom and I couldn’t resist myself with shooting Sarah Bernhart Peony for today’s post. Just followed the same procedure as detailed in my earlier Peony posts to shoot this.
Photo 365: Day 142 – Photo walk along Michigan Lake
I went on a photo walk this morning by the Michigan lake. It was rather a foggy day with limited visibility, so I wasn’t expecting much from today’s photo walk. But right by the lake I found this real inviting rows of trees. It was quite a contrast with the dense fog and vivid green trees.
Photo 365: Day 141 – Photo Walk
I am blogging from Chicago today/tomorrow.
I had a chance to go on a photo walk this morning in Michigan Ave. It has been quite some time now since my last photo walk in St. Charles, MO. Photo walks are fun – I feel like I’m a tourist during photo walks 😉
I took this picture in the park located next to the Art Institute of Chicago. I really liked the atmosphere there – it was calm & relaxing. I ended up going there again this evening with my daughter.
Photo 365: Day 140 – Flight
Today is theme Thursday and the theme is Flight.
As my wife and kids are leaving to India this weekend on an early summer vacation, doing a photo post with Flight theme turned out quite easy.
Basically I started collecting materials for the past 3 days – my daughter had a world map she had got from Subway with her meal. I used this as a base. Then used the e-tickets, motion sickness chewables, and my little boy’s toy to put this together.
On a related note, I used flash based Picnik (online photo editor) for editing this – since I am traveling this week, I am traveling lite and didn’t want to load CS4 on my laptop. I was amazed at the features Picnik offers and it’s free 😉
Photo 365: Day 139 – Sewing Mechanism
We have this old sewing machine that’s about 7+ years old. We were cleaning up the closet and the sewing machine mechanism caught my eyes. The moment I saw it, I knew I want to do a macro shot of the needle plate, foot and transporter of our sewing machine.
Used natural window lighting to shoot this at f/16 for 1/2s exposure.
Photo 365: Day 138 – Houston we have a problem!
Houston we have a problem – that’s what came to my mind when I saw my little kiddo watching his favorite TV program Cailou on You Tube. He was sitting so close to the monitor and watching with his eyes wide open like he was waiting for an event to happen…
Today is tasra365 Twitter Tuesday
Photo 365: Day 137 – Got Tempeh?
Tempeh? – it’s fermented soybean.
Last week I had a chance to meet one of my former colleague on my train ride home back from work. He happens to be a vegan and we were talking about Tofu and ended up him mentioning tempeh. It happens to be high in protein, fiber, and vitamins. So we bought a couple of packs of 3-grain tempeh from Trader Joe’s during our grocery shopping on Saturday.
It has a nutty, chewy texture and we tried it with stir fried vegetables this evening. It was delicious and will definitely be part of our diet moving forward.
So this evening, I tried shooting this (I’m always challenged with food photography). I was able to capture the details but I think I failed in plating this – lots of white space. Will have to keep trying with food photography in the days to come 🙂
Photo 365: Day 136 – Carpet rose
Another gloomy day here in St. Louis.
It was drizzling on and off and when the sky had taken a break from raining, I went out to my backyard and took this macro capture of carpet rose.