Halloween treats for adults

I thought I would share some of the food treats from our Halloween festivities.  These photos are from my 7 year old Sony P&S and my iPhone.  I hurt my wrist the other day and the DSLR was a bit to heavy to use today, but I didn't want to miss sharing the fun.

StarryNews made this veggie skeleton, which had dip and broccoli for the head, apparently I jumped the gun with the photo here.  Really, I wanted to catch all the creative food before we ate it all!

Here the pizza cheese was dual color, like candy corn.  The mini-dogs were wrapped and called "monster toes", but I also thought they looked like little mummies.

My contribution this week was pumpkin pie pudding.  Not nearly as creative as the first few, but delicious.  I used gluten-free cake mix on top (to meet some dietary needs of our group) and I really liked the texture better than with the regular mix.  Also, I don't use the entire box, just enough to have an even covering over the pudding and then drizzle on the butter.  I recommend it!

And to top the evening off, Carmel-Apple Cider-Vanilla-and Brandy drinks!

These were served in double shot glasses which made them adorable.  A good time and great food was had by all.  Happy Halloween!

M.E.

A seasonal project

I have decided to take a picture at the same location one time each season, then

I will frame them together.  Here are summer and autumn, so far in my series.

Okay, so apparently I didn't stand in exactly the same place both times, but you can still see the comparison.  I will take several during the next two seasons and try to find the happy medium of these locations.  (or I'll just post-edit a little more to line them up!)

M.E.

Playing with Bokeh!

After storms and wind Tuesday, today was another fantastic day outside, so I went out to the park to play.  As I was finishing up, 3 more folks with cameras, tripods and the like were headed in.  See, we understand that some time in February we're going to pay dearly for this 70+ degrees and sun in October...we'd better enjoy it now!

Here's a self portrait of sorts.

Over at Katie Lloyd Photography blog, she was kind enough to provide some ideas about how to get some good bokeh and then use it with overlays.  Well, I'm still pretty new at this whole photography business, so I thought I'd start with intentionally looking for the light sources and get base shots.  I don't have a software program on my Mac that will do overlay yet, so I may have to resort to the PC netbook to complete the second portion of the tutorial.

Picture 1: what you see in nature
Picture 2: bokeh

I may use some of these as background for Christmas cards.  I will need another image to overlay or perhaps I can use some punchs or die cut designs to make a 3D overlay.

These are all SOOC, as I am trying to see what playing with the manual settings does to the photos.

I had so much fun playing with the light and nature this afternoon.  I have lived here more than 11 years and just found this adorable little park this summer.  I credit getting my camera for that - it's made me seek out new locations to test out color, light, and shutter speed.  Also, I am going to take the same photo in all four seasons.  I'll share that later in the week.

M.E.