Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Friday, February 20, 2009
Saturday Morning . . .
. . . a beautiful morning, Walking the Earth with my little Canon G-9. Random images of the World I see around me, things big and small. Hope you have a beautiful day too! (click images to enlarge)
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Saturday Morning . . .
. . . in Glenwood, MD. With my amazing little G-9 . I carry this camera almost everywhere now As I Walk the Earth because everywhere I go I see photos of everything around me all the time.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Spring Blossoms
The Azaleas, Dogwood, and Lilac are in full tilt bloom throughout my yard. Took advantage of the beautiful day and shot a whole mess of images. Think I'll do more today. Here's a few from yesterday.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
Spring has Sprung
Saturday was one of those wonderfully perfect Spring days. A beautiful afternoon, the sky was on fire above my yard as the day ended. All of these (and the previous post) shot with my amazing little Canon G-9.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Thursday, April 3, 2008
SpringTime in DC
After a shoot downtown yesterday thought I would stop by the Tidal Basin and try for some Cherry Blossom photos. With all the Cherry Blossom mania I couldn't even get close to parking anywhere remotely nearby. I gave up all hope, convincing myself I had plenty of Cherry Blossom images from that area already and headed towards the US Capitol Grounds where I knew there would be blossoms. Little did I know that on Capitol Hill they were evidentally celebrating National Penis Day, what a bonus. Yesterday was the only day this week predicted to be sunny and beautiful. These Cherry Blossoms happen but once a year. They are such iconic images of Washington DC but come and go so quickly. You have to get them while they're out or wait again until next Spring. I made so many good images but it's so easy when it all looks this good. Here's a few from yesterday.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Friday, March 21, 2008
The Joy of Cooking
Well, it's been to long since I checked in here, and with good reason. A week ago Monday we had to take my Father to the hospital for complications due to his chemotherapy. I'm not sure if anything sucks your soul dry as sitting in a hospital room all day for 9 days. I am in serious need of getting my groove back on.
Two activities I love in life, photography and cooking. I haven't done either in almost two weeks. In a perfect world for me I would make images all day while they are aggressively marketed, distributed and licensed worldwide, then make dinner for my family. I love to cook, I really do, it makes me happy and yesterday I needed to be happy. Also, I just happened to get a call from my friend, the ever delightful and fabulous Renee Comet, an outstanding food photographer. I told her how I felt, haven't been working, ect, was going to cook dinner and she suggested I cook, photograph the results and put it on my blog. I instantly felt better, I now had purpose and motivation. Thanks Renee! (btw- Renee we had no budget for props, food stylist or assistants on this shoot, it's just the plate of food by the kitchen window)
I decided to try Roasted Mahi-Mahi w/Fennel, Olives, and Oranges. Wanting some fennel is what inspired choosing this dish (and Mahi-Mahi was on sale at Safeway). If you've never cooked with fresh fennel (the bulb, not the seed) it's wonderful. Also read of it's medicinal properties here. Now I never follow a recipe exactly, what fun would that be, so I did a few thing differently than the recipe above. One thing I decided was to not bake the fish, I prefer mine with a little pan roasted searing action and brought into play my beloved Sauteuse my Mom gave me for Christmas. I decided to add a little wine while roasting the fennel to ratchet up the sweetness but more importantly to give me an excuse to run out to the liquor store (Honey, I need one of those really big bottles of wine for this recipe). I chose a playful Mouton Cadet Bordeaux, an amusing little wine, a tad bold yet refreshingly unpretentious. 1 cup into the pan while roasting, remaining liter straight down your gullet. Even though this dish has a Mediterranean flair I thought I'd try including popovers. If you like popovers, and who doesn't, here's a pretty simple recipe for Easy Ethereal Popovers . I grated some fresh Parmesan to sprinkle on top before baking but that's just how we roll up in here.
Cooking for me is great therapy. Like photography I am creating something I enjoy, another form of creative self expression. These are important things to have in anyone's life. When you don't have them, or are missing them, you realize how important they are. Without them I would dry up into an empty lifeless husk and blow away.
Two activities I love in life, photography and cooking. I haven't done either in almost two weeks. In a perfect world for me I would make images all day while they are aggressively marketed, distributed and licensed worldwide, then make dinner for my family. I love to cook, I really do, it makes me happy and yesterday I needed to be happy. Also, I just happened to get a call from my friend, the ever delightful and fabulous Renee Comet, an outstanding food photographer. I told her how I felt, haven't been working, ect, was going to cook dinner and she suggested I cook, photograph the results and put it on my blog. I instantly felt better, I now had purpose and motivation. Thanks Renee! (btw- Renee we had no budget for props, food stylist or assistants on this shoot, it's just the plate of food by the kitchen window)
I decided to try Roasted Mahi-Mahi w/Fennel, Olives, and Oranges. Wanting some fennel is what inspired choosing this dish (and Mahi-Mahi was on sale at Safeway). If you've never cooked with fresh fennel (the bulb, not the seed) it's wonderful. Also read of it's medicinal properties here. Now I never follow a recipe exactly, what fun would that be, so I did a few thing differently than the recipe above. One thing I decided was to not bake the fish, I prefer mine with a little pan roasted searing action and brought into play my beloved Sauteuse my Mom gave me for Christmas. I decided to add a little wine while roasting the fennel to ratchet up the sweetness but more importantly to give me an excuse to run out to the liquor store (Honey, I need one of those really big bottles of wine for this recipe). I chose a playful Mouton Cadet Bordeaux, an amusing little wine, a tad bold yet refreshingly unpretentious. 1 cup into the pan while roasting, remaining liter straight down your gullet. Even though this dish has a Mediterranean flair I thought I'd try including popovers. If you like popovers, and who doesn't, here's a pretty simple recipe for Easy Ethereal Popovers . I grated some fresh Parmesan to sprinkle on top before baking but that's just how we roll up in here.
Cooking for me is great therapy. Like photography I am creating something I enjoy, another form of creative self expression. These are important things to have in anyone's life. When you don't have them, or are missing them, you realize how important they are. Without them I would dry up into an empty lifeless husk and blow away.
Friday, February 15, 2008
We had such good times together
Polaroid quits the instant film business.
Even though I haven't actually used Polaroid film in years it's sad to hear this news. Some of my earliest memories are of pulling Polaroids apart and seeing instant photos. It was like magic, my first real exposure to photography. Up until just a few years ago I would go through boxes of 645 (? I forget the film type now) on shoots. I went through a phase in the 80's of doing image transfer onto watercolor paper and loved it. Anyone remember that trend? I also went through another phase of taking the sx-70 type film, squishing and moving the emulsion around with a little spoon or something while the image processed. I did that alot, it was great fun, But, like most things I do, I over did it, then tired of it.
Here are a few old images with the sx-70 type film I fooled around with while on a shoot in the Greek Islands in 93 (?). I have stacks of these somewhere, these are just a few I could find and scan quickly.
An old photographers joke: What do Eskimos get from sitting on the ice to long?
- Polaroids.
Even though I haven't actually used Polaroid film in years it's sad to hear this news. Some of my earliest memories are of pulling Polaroids apart and seeing instant photos. It was like magic, my first real exposure to photography. Up until just a few years ago I would go through boxes of 645 (? I forget the film type now) on shoots. I went through a phase in the 80's of doing image transfer onto watercolor paper and loved it. Anyone remember that trend? I also went through another phase of taking the sx-70 type film, squishing and moving the emulsion around with a little spoon or something while the image processed. I did that alot, it was great fun, But, like most things I do, I over did it, then tired of it.
Here are a few old images with the sx-70 type film I fooled around with while on a shoot in the Greek Islands in 93 (?). I have stacks of these somewhere, these are just a few I could find and scan quickly.
An old photographers joke: What do Eskimos get from sitting on the ice to long?
- Polaroids.
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