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…
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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 🙂
That’s a picture of my little boy having his hair cut this noon. Somehow we didn’t like his hair cut from last time. His hairstyle started looking more like a “bowl cut” – if you want to picture this, think of Moe’s hairstyle in the 3 Stooges 😉
So I was on a mission to fix his hair this noon. Typically I don’t take my Nikon D70 to stores. But decided to do so this noon and I’m glad that I did. I just talked to the hair stylist if it was OK to take pictures and she was quite OK with that idea. So I started snapping pictures – as I didn’t want to scare other customers in the store, I decided not to use flash. So I had to bump up the ISO to 800+ to take the pictures.
Back on my little boy’s hair style – it doesn’t look like a mushroom cut or bowl cut anymore. We will give it couple of days, and he will be cutest kid on the block 😉
Another busy Wednesday evening. Had to take my daughter to her math class and go visit a friend this evening. By the time I got home it was almost 9:00 PM and didn’t have much inspiration for today’s post.
The friend whom we visited this evening had gifted “Little People” Noah’s Ark to our little boy and coincidently, we had watched Evan Almighty past weekend. In this movie, Evan gets a visit from God,who instructs him if he really wants to change the world, he needs to build an ark and prepare the world for the flood. So thought I should do something with my son’s new toy/animal set.
So had the toys set-up on white board and shot this using bounced lighting from trusty Nikon SB-600 flash. Not a great shot – with shadows and composition but overall I’m satisfied 😉
It’s another rainy/windy day here in St. Louis and as I already planned to post Peony for Day 130 had to shoot this indoors.
Used couple of black cardboards for backdrop and had this shot using the window lighting. To lit the shadows, my wife helped me with holding the home-made reflector (crinkled aluminum wrap stuck on a cardboard) at an angled towards the window/peony. I really liked the way it turned out.
Mocha muffins – that’s what my daughter and I ended up baking for my wife for this mother’s day. Long time ago I used to write recipes and you can find the recipe for the muffin recipe here.
The sweetest thing was my daughter’s note. She wrote “Mom you are very nice! You are sweeter than cake!“
Another macro challenge 😉
Identify this gear. I will post the answer tomorrow evening.
When I got home this evening, I took a walk around our yard and saw the yellow roses in full bloom. So decided to have yellow rose as a subject for today’s post. As it was a bit windy this evening decided to cut the bloom and shoot this indoors where I could have more control on the composition/lighting.
I didn’t really want to shoot it looking straight at the flower. Shot the rose at different angles and amongst all I liked this one.
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I was undecided on the subject for today’s post when I got home this evening.
I think my legs were in auto-pilot mode this evening 😉
My legs were leading me to my back yard to take floral pictures but had to restrict myself to shoot on something else. It gets boring after shooting with the same theme. So as I was undecided on what to shoot, my daughter was getting ready for her homework and thought may be I should sharpen her pencils, then try shooting the shavings. So that’s how things turned out this evening.
We had some rain last night and I was able to shoot these rain drops on rose petals this morning.
Over the past couple of days I have been taking pictures before 7:00 AM in my yard and that seems to be a good time for taking pictures of blooms, buds, and such. I kind of feel the blooms are fresh and Sun light is quite optimal for taking pictures then. Will have to see how it works out in summer.