Continuing the theme of photographing my culinary creations, today it was the turn of Rocky Roads!
We had the pleasure of looking after a good friend’s daughter all morning, and while she spent a considerable amount of time like this:
We also concocted the following – if I do say so myself – delicious biccies! Rock on!
One of the frustrating (although not in a bad way) things about the 365 project is the one-photo-per-day rule. I had the fortune to pop down to Cornwall for a few days last week, and ended up at the end of each day with several good (IMO!) candidates for that day’s picture. Only one allowed though.
Other days I’m having to go out and invent pictures in order to satisfy that day’s requirement.
While there is a strong temptation to ‘average out’ the photos, and use the 15 or so I took in Cornwall over the coming days, that would actually translate to a fortnight of not taking photos!
However I’m not willing to let the near misses go to waste either, so here are the ones that weren’t selected on the day they were taken, but which I would have been happy to use if I’d have been allowed!
Interestingly, there’s a shop called “Middleton’s” in Fowey. However it’s a sweet shop rather than party supplies!
Hope I’m not getting boring!! The last 6 posts have been about photography, and this is no exception. I’ll save some bandwidth by not actually including any pictures this time – how about that?
Starting week 4 of my 365 (which in itself is a bit scary), and haven’t particularly struggled so far for inspiration or motiviation. In fact, I still have a fairly long list of subjects I want to photograph, and a fairly long list of photographic styles/techniques to try out.
To whet the appetite for the next 49 weeks, here are some of the photos I want to take over the next year:
Few – that’s a long list!
For no particularly good reason, I have decided to mirror my
Flickr 365 set on a ‘proper’ 365 site, in this instance:
I like 365project because it has a calendar view that shows you the picture from each day, and it allows e-mail submission (but haven’t tried that yet!)
[Edit – note on flickr anymore. Now hosted on photo.eutony.net]
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m working my way through the Practical Photography’s DSLR Skills Bootcamp. This month is about creative metering and exposure, and the assignment is to take a long exposure shot of a moving car, but panning it so the car is sharp and the background is blurred.
So I spent lunchtime today shivering in the wind and the rain beside one of the arterial roads into Harrogate honing my skills.
I’m only allowed to choose one as my submission for the bootcamp, and I’m only allowed one for the 365… but I had so much fun I’m going to put all the better shots on here.
I particularly like the bin lorry – I didn’t notice the driver was waving until afterwards!
Managed my first week of 365, and have more or less uploaded a photo every day!
The only doozy was the “bags 2 school”, which I think I can improve with a bit of cropping – see below. [Edit, now using cropped version!]
I’ve also entered a photo competition, but I’m not going to say which one to try and minimise the competition!
So anyway, here’s the first week:
I’ve add a slightly more convenient ‘in’ to the 365 photos, although it does require Flash.
Point a browser at www.eutony.net/365 to see the pics, and that page also has a direct link to the set on Flickr (the less than memorable www.flickr.com/photos/66189293@N00/sets/72157626684135070/).
I’ve also added it to the left navigation panel. Aren’t I kind? 🙂
[22/09/11 Edit – As Flickr only allows 200 photos, I’m now hosting them myself! Check out photo.eutony.net/365/.]
I started a “365” project yesterday. The idea is that you take a photo every single day for a year, and at the end of the year you can look back over the year, and have a record of highs and lows, and changes. You also should improve your photography by taking photos every day!
The photos can be of anything at all, although some people approach it in a time-lapse fashion, taking the “same” photo ideally at the same time every day for a year (for instance to document the changes in a garden). I’m not going to do that, because I think it will be more fun and less effort (and hence more likely to succeed) to just snap whatever captures my fancy on a given day.
People on the web seem to suggest that doing a “selfie” (a self portrait) once a month is a good idea, so you capture how you have changed as well. May 9th is a fairly random day to start a new project, but I seem to be particularly enthusiastic about photography at the moment, and wanted to strike while the iron’s hot. Also, the “traditional” start for this sort of thing – 1st Jan – strikes me as a really bad time to start something now, especially a photography project. There’s the whole resolution thing already going on, and you’re in the darkest, coldest, wettest months of the year.
My self-imposed “rules” are (i.e. The criteria I am using to judge whether I managed the project):
I also intended to blog on here once a week or so with the new photos, but I may not manage that. That said, here’s the kick-off photo:
I’ve been taking some random still life photos this evening, and I couldn’t resist posting this one here.
[EDIT: This photo has been lost to the mists of time! It was on flickr, but I can’t find a local copy anymore!!]
Phew, what a week.
Absolutely manic at work at the moment (which is a good thing really – better than having no work), and No. 2 son has been an absolute tinker recently. Here’s when he’s woken up and required some intervention (milk/water/change/snuggle):
What this doesn’t include is all the times he’s woken us up and not required intervention – for instance at 4.30 this morning, when he woke up, chatted and bashed around in the cot just enough to wake us up, then went back to sleep.
I’m not complaining (really) – I know we’re very lucky to have a baby. To be fair he is teething, and we still haven’t quite got around to moving him into his own room, so the non-interventional disturbances are our fault really. He’s actually pretty good ‘normally’ (although I’m wondering if ‘normal’ is a sanity-preserving myth I’ve invented). He’s in bed by 18:30, and usually asleep within 5 or 10 minutes, and we usually don’t have to do anything again until 06:30 / 07:00 the next day.
On a happier note, I’ve been inspired by Lorraine Pascale to put foody photos on here. She says that she photographs everything she bakes, and I thought that would be a fun little project. I don’t know if she meant literally everything – I’m chosing to only photograph interesting or noteworthy creations. So you’re unlikely to see baked potatoes with tuna and sweetcorn on here. That said, it might be interesting to photograph every meal I take for a week….
Anyway, you’re hopefully already seen my Treacle Tart, so now I present with you banoffee pie. I sadly forgot to photograph it before I took out the first slice, but I still think it looks good.
Oh go on then – have the recipe too!
Banoffee Pie
Serves 6-8
This is a great “store-cupboard” pudding, as the main ingredients last months, and bananas and cream are pretty easy to get hold off if they’re not in.
Ingredients:
You will need a 23cm / 9in loose-bottomed tin or pastry dish (I quite like it served in a fluted dish as pictured).
Method:
One website I saw suggests boiling several cans at once, as they will store for ages once caramlised, but the advent of caramel
tins lessens the usefulness of this option.
caramel, just open the can and spread on the base.
I would like to acknowledge the Co-operative magazine, for inspiring me with their chocolate and ginger banoffee pie recipe (even though I didn’t follow it), and The Banoffee Pie page for re-assuring me that I wasn’t mad to boil an unopened can of condensed milk for hours!