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Photo 365: Day 180 – Hearty vegetable/tempeh soup

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Now that I am on a mission to get healthy, tried making tempeh vegetable soup this evening. Took a basic chilli recipe and made some changes to suit my taste buds and made this into a hearty tempeh vegetable soup. Turned out pretty good 😉

To shoot this, I want to try a different pov and thought I should try shooting it looking top down. To fill the white space, added couple of Indian spicy dried chili peppers – although I only used jalapeño pepper on this recipe 😉

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Photo 365: Day 179 – Spent flower

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As I was watering the plants in our yard this evening, I saw the spent flowers in our rose bush and one of them has shed all it’s petal and had this ‘star’ like pattern – I am guessing Japanese Beetles have devoured the flowers.

Had this shot with Nikkor 60mm macro – originally tried with Sigma 150mm and 50mm prime but I like the  one shot with Nikkor 60mm macro better than the others.

That reminds me that I am behind on dead heading the spent flowers 😉

Photo 365: Day 178 – Pepper blossom

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Our pepper plants have started blooming. We started hot peppers and sweet bell peppers from seeds in late spring and so far they seem to be on track 😉

It was quite windy outside this evening and as we are growing these in containers, I had to bring them inside the house to shoot the bloom. Used Sigma 150mm macro to shoot this.

Photo 365: Day 177 – Ice water & Soccer

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I briefly watched world cup soccer this afternoon as US played Ghana. I got back from my yard work and heard the score was 1-1 and thought I should check it out. Too bad US didn’t win but it was a good match.

It was a hot day and to cool off I sat down with ice water to watch soccer. I had this idea to shoot the ice water glass & soccer on TV – I want it to tell a story. Initially I tried with 50mm prime but I didn’t like the outcome so had to settle with 150mm Sigma.

It was a bit tricky shooting the water glass with the bright background images on TV. So used spot metering to take the reading on the glass but later switched to manual and adjusted the aperture/speed until I got the desired photo.

I like the way it turned out.

Photo 365: Day 176 – Abstract

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As I stepped outside to take photos for my 365 project, I had in my mind to do abstract theme for today’s post. Asiatic lilies are in full bloom in our yard and I noticed evening sunlight filtering through the petals. So found a spot to rest my tripod/camera, and shot this using Sigma 150mm macro lens.

I like the way it turned out this evening.

Photo 365: Day 175: Shrimp salad

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It’s been quite some time now since I have last done food photography. So decided to try with food photography this evening. Picked a recipe for shrimp salad online and tried it with lot of summer veggies. It turned out pretty good 😉

Photo 365: Day 174 – Feeling toasty

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Another hot day here in St. Louis. Temperature was in upper 90 F and the heat index was 105 F

Got back from work and didn’t wan’t to go out again for a photo shoot. Just stayed home and shot this, that depicts the weather today in St. Louis. A bit of rain could help 😉

Photo 365: Day 173 – About time to get fit

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Yep it’s about time to hit that weight bench 😉

This photo 365 project has really kept me busy this year and my priorities have definitely changed with this project – my time back from work these days are spent on photo project.  Couple of days ago there was blog post on tasramar.com titled SPRINT TO THE FINISH and the goal is to get fit again.

My goal is just as simple as exercise 6 days/week and get to bed in a reasonable time.

As I was on my workout session this evening I decided to shoot my weight bench for today’s photo post 😉

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Photo 365: Day 172 – Marigold

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Our Marigolds have started to bloom. We have started mixed Marigolds from seeds late spring and finally we are seeing colors. These are miniature ones and are real pretty.

Photo 365: Day 171 – Texture

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I had originally thought of shooting flowers from our backyard but it was too hot and muggy outside and decided to go with the texture theme for today’s post.

We have this old garden pot about 6+ year old that we had originally bought for growing Amaryllis bulbs – it has gone through harsh winter, summer, rain and starting losing it’s paint. So for today’s theme I though of shooting this pot as it has wonderful texture and some nice colors.

Had this sit in the patio steps and shot this using my favorite 60mm macro Nikkor lens.