Charlie's Worldmissed a post
Posted on November 10, 2009
I forgot to write about this in the excitement of something or other..
Went shopping for wedding suits with my best man (Jay’s ex) on Saturday up in Perth.
The whole thing done and dusted in a morning including 2 coffees and a trip to Lomovember, a Holga and Lomo exhibition arranged by the fine chaps at Pigeonhole Awesome.
We now have matching fantastic dark grey pinstripe suits and gorgeous white shirts, just need for me to get a tie to go with the bridesmaid colours and some swanky shoes and its all good 🙂
food photography
Posted on November 10, 2009
Jay and I were talking about this a while ago – we should really document our food preparation!
Jay’s gone back to being Vegan again and I’m edging in the Veggie direction, although having been there and done that for 2 years, I know I’m never going to go that far again.
With all this new found healthy food comes preparation. Lots and lots of it.
So I’m going to document some of the more good looking food.
“Thats great love, hold it, pout, yeah, you’re a tiger *ceerrchick* (is that how a camera sound gets written?)”
Ok, I’m taking the piss a little, but I do love looking at people’s blogs where food is a strong theme, especially when backed up with photography 🙂
some excellent examples of this:
The Kitchen Wench – Ellie makes the best food and takes some wonderfully appealing shots of it too. Tell me you’re not hungry just looking at it?
Lauren – she’s into baking – cakes of all kinds, cookies and cupcakes. Nom nom! Really looking forward to more from her (and not looking forward to resulting exercise I have to do in order to not become a total lard-arse 🙂 )
Ok, its not a huge selection so far, but I’ll add to it as I weave my merry way though the hallowed halls of cooking blogs.
My first effort for this was posted way back on an old blog I used to have, the one where I met Jay, no less. Thats a story for another time 🙂
Apple Crumble
Ingredients: some apples, plain flour, butter and sugar, cinnamon.
the ingredients
Peel and and core apples
how'd you like them apples?
Chop apples into small bits, place in pyrex dish
Add a desert spoon on sugar and stir in well
Microwave for 2 mins to soften then add 1/2 a teaspoon of cinamon powder to apples and mix in well
an apple a day keeps the doctor away
In a mixing bowl, add together 6oz flour, 4 oz butter and 3oz sugar. Mix up with fingers until all the butter has broken up and you are left with a fine crumble mix. Taste to check sweetness (shouldn’t be too sweet, its not a cake!)
mix mix mix
Place crumble mix on top of apples and level out
smoooooooth
Place in oven at 200ish degrees for 30 mins until crumble is brown
ready for eating 🙂
Serve with custard (and red wine, apparently)
and scoff
Now, clearly I wasn’t focussing on the presentation and photos back then when I did this (more than 3 years ago) but even so, I can *taste* it from these pics.
So, watch this space!
claps hands with glee
Posted on November 10, 2009
No, not the High School Musical cheerleader-style TV show, the proper dance and jump around kind. Only not so much of the dancing. Or the jumping, come to think of it. I’m not much of a jumper really. There was hand clapping though, only in a manly kind of a way.
The subject of the excited hand clapping? my wedding ring arrived this morning in sunny Perth from San Diego – Kathleen @ http://www.etsy.com/shop/studiometalsmith makes some lovely stuff, including this 🙂
wedding ring
Its amazing in the flesh, very chunky and solid with such a nice finish – well worth every $
Not that long to go now..
I don’t get Flickr sometimes..
Posted on November 8, 2009
Popularity, its a funny old thing.
Sometimes I think I take some really good photos, but get only a small amount of views and no comments on them, and other times, a shot I think is nothing special gets hundreds of views and favourites and comments really quickly.
Is it my perception of what’s good that’s off base, or do people really like average shots more than the truly good ones?
What’s that Skippy?
Posted on November 6, 2009
We had a stray kangaroo in the road today. First I saw of it was the dog going nuts at the window and the ranger pulling up outside. Followed by another one. And then the police and the wildlife officers
The roo was in the road opposite my house, so I popped out to see what all the fuss was all about. Together, the throng of roo catchers advanced down the road whist the wildlife officers prepared the tranquilliser (which took aaages, mixing this and that into a never ending set of vials).
Eventually, they set off down the street to shoot the critter full of slumber inducing drugs and hopefully catch and remove it.
After a while, the deed was done and the guy with the gun came back to the car
leaving the rest of them to try to corner a drug addled and frankly probably pissed off kangaroo.
Now, bear in mind that roos can jump 6-8 feet with no problem and can run 30/40mph easily. So there began a comical stand off between the rangers/police and a few residents, including myself by this point as the roo dashed this way and that, quite unaware that it should be counting sheep by this point.
They fetched the big net ready to capture it, but it bolted up towards where I was standing – I managed to stop it escaping and it stopped for a breather
it soon bolted away again and despite the best efforts of the team, it leapt clean over the net, got upto full speed and shot past me doing huge random bounces.
And off the team scrambled in hot pursuit
Bit of fun for the day..
more holga goodness
Posted on November 4, 2009
so, some of the other half – temptingly tasty shots with the Holga and Trip 35.
These were taken in yee olde towne of York, WA. We only took film shots whilst we were there – so its good that a few came out well then 🙂 I’m going to have to either calibrate the scanner or buy a decent negative scanner – I’m not so convinced after all about the colours from the the Trip 35 set. Maybe I should use more black and white :))
I think this one was taken at the train station on the way up to the Perth Art gallery and to see Kevin Ballantine’s awesome Holga exhibition at the Spectrum Project space.
the green green grass of home
Posted on November 3, 2009
Tom Jones would be proud.
Now the reticulation is well and truly working and fixed, just have one duff sprinkler to change in the front, I can get on with the job is re-seeding the lawn
I’ve weeded and feeded until all I can taste is the ruddy granules up my nose. The weeds out the front are particularly stubborn and I’ve had to treat them 3 times and still they grow. Another few blitzes over the coming weeks will sort them I think.
I’ve dug in wetting agent to the dry bits, adjusted sprinklers till they cover just about every square inch of grass and yesterday, me and the little ‘un raked and turned and sieved the soil and liberally sowed the grass seed.
2 weeks, the packet says, before germination. Hopefully I put down enough that the birds dont steal it all before then. I’ll take some piccies and let you know how it goes.
talking to myself
Posted on November 3, 2009
I caught myself thinking out loud this morning.
Its healthy, right?
new toys
Posted on November 1, 2009
Went up to Perth on Saturday to the wonderful pigeonhole and the crumpler store to check out some funky ideas for Christmas presents and caved in horribly at the sight of lo-fi camera goodness.
I got a Diana Mini – a teeny plastic 35mm 1/2 frame toy camera – takes Holga-esque shots but in an easier to get processed film format. We’ll see how it fares against the mighty Holga
Jay fell for the Lomo Supersampler a dinky little camera that takes 4 shots in quick sucession – very cool and very different.
glossy
Posted on November 1, 2009
The only trouble with the latest batch of films is they are printed on glossy paper. It makes them look beautiful, so sleek, rich and deep, but they pick up fingerprints like a brand new black iPod.
Anyway – I’ve scanned them all in now, Holga and Trip and I have to say, I’m really happy with them. No post processing on them, only on a couple just to correct some slight washing out from the scanner, not to enhance the final result.
The Olympus Trip 35 shots that I was disappointed with initially have scanned from the print really well and come out with a definite vintage feel that I didn’t pick up from the print itself. Maybe its something in the scan process, they look very close to the prints to me, but somehow have picked up a little magic on the way.
The Holga shots were wicked, and I’m finally digging black and white – I might have to buy some more Tri-X and shoot off a load more
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