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Photo 365: Day 73 – Sweet Bell Pepper

Another bonus picture for day 73 😉

Took a picture of this sweet red bell pepper before dicing it for hearty vegetable soup.

Photo 365: Day 73 – Jalapeno

Another bonus picture for day 73 😉

Took a picture of this mildly spicy Jalapeno before dicing it for hearty vegetable soup.

Photo 365: Day 72 – Portabella

It’s our grocery shopping day 😉

Bought these portabella mushroom caps for grilling and took few pictures of portabella gills this afternoon. Used Nikkor 60mm macro to capture these. I really like the way these turned out – these gills looks like soft pillows 😉

Photo 365: Day 68 – I like Panda; Give me Panda!

Recently purchased soft Panda licorice from Trader Joes. Unlike the mainstream Twizzler, these are soft, made of real licorice root juice and sweetened using molasses (yay no HFCS). Anyway – the very first time my 2 year old boy tried, it was rejected immediately without further consumption. Surly it’s an acquired taste and I don’t blame him.

Then past Sunday, he was standing by the pantry, pointing at the licorice box and was wanting to have some – he sure does have a sweet tooth (I guess it’s in the gene). Few minutes later, he comes back and tells me – “I like Panda. Give me Panda!”. May be I should send him over to China 🙂

Photo 365: Day 65 – Iris again

Here is a picture of Iris (again) which is just about ready to bloom.

  • Shot this as RAW and later tweaked just a bit in Adobe RAW.

Photo 365: Day 64 – Iris

I was pleasantly surprised to see Iris bouquet at Costco today 😉 I love taking floral pictures and bought a bouquet  this evening.

Photo 365: Day 61 – Silhouette

Contrary to yesterday’s post, today’s photo post is not a cheerful/colorful one.

Did some experimentation with lighting this evening to capture this silhouette of netting on the screen door. Focused the camera at the netting towards the bright clouds/sky. Used manual mode and slightly overexposed to wash out netting that were out of focus. As I used 60mm macro with shallow depth of field, all the netting towards the far right and left appears almost washed out.

Later used Adobe RAW to add contrast. I kind of like it 😉

Photo 365: Day 60 – Fruit Loops

It was rather a cloudy, gloomy day this evening and I was looking for a colorful subject for today’s post. Rummaging our pantry,  I found this box of dyed cheerios (a.k.a Fruit Loops) – we are not big fan of cereal fortified with HFCS at our house 😉

Anyway, stacked these up and took the picture with 1sec exposure. And for the backdrop used the cereal box – nice bokeh here 😉

Photo 365: Day 59 – Chicken Noodle Soup

We had a chance to try out Chicken Noodle Soup recipe from ‘The Pioneer Woman’ blog today.

Turned out really good. But I have to admit, it took about 4+ hours from start to finish and we have about 15+ servings of soup in the freezer 😉

Will definitely try this again…

Photo 365: Day 54 – Sign of Spring

Upon returning from picking up our mail this evening, I noticed that the Daffodils have started to germinate.

Definitely seems like a sign of spring 😉