food, photography and my creative life
Last week’s photo was an easy start. It was pretty decent looking to begin with. So this week I thought I’d pick a photo that needed a bit more work. And the funny thing is, it took barely any longer to fix this one than last week’s. I have tons of mint so I decided to brew up a batch of mint syrup. This
I thought I’d try something new here on the ol’ blog. I take a lot of photos. I actually take a lot of food photos that never make it here because they’re not attached to a recipe. And let’s all be honest, readers want recipes. If traffic is your game, then it’s scary to do a post without a recipe (although, to be honest, 4
Food and photography seem to seep their way into every corner of my life, which is just fine with me. I can think of much worse things to fill your dreams with! This past weekend it did so in a new way that I hope I’ll get to do more! I don’t talk about it very often here but, running my design business is only
I’ll admit it… for a while I’ve been struggling with my feelings for mobile phone photography and reconciling it with my feelings for SLR photography. I’m not really even sure how to write about it because it’s a much bigger struggle for me that revolves around capturing images in camera and/or the post processing that happens later – one I have a hard time verbalizing
I think… I hope… that honest to goodness spring has arrived here on the west coast. I don’t want to get carried away and cause too much fuss in case it scares it off… but it’s actually possible we may get summer like temperatures this weekend! What better way to kick it off than to start experimenting with salads? Salads are great because the possibilities
It’s funny that most of the recipes on this blog are baking recipes. In actual fact, I’m a much better cook than I am a baker. And I’m a much more adventurous cook than I am a baker. Pastry eludes me. I have yet to make a really good muffin, despite 100s of attempts. Cupcakes and icing aren’t even in my repertoire and I hate
There’s not much that will get me out of bed early on a Sunday morning – especially a dark, rainy Sunday morning that should be spent curled up under the duvet. But, a day learning from one of the world’s master photographers, Joe McNally, well, that’ll do it! If you’re a photographer, you already know who Joe is. If you’re not, go check out his
Last week I received a couple of reminders that I promised a post on food photography tips for winter so I thought I better get cracking before it’s already spring (or at least before the days officially start getting longer!). I have the great fortune of living in what may just be the gloomiest winter city in the world. Vancouver is located in the heart
There is no recipe in this week’s post. I haven’t been in the kitchen much to bake. I did create a pretty tasty new Mac n Cheese concoction earlier this week but I never photographed it. It was good stuff though. I decided to take some time to play on the weekend without the pressure of having to come up with a recipe or making
If you read this blog with any consistency, then you probably know more about my dog than you do about me. People, who are not dog people, tend to think a dog is a dog. If you’ve owned one, or been close to one, you know they’re so much more than that. They have personalities as unique as yours and mine, complete with quirks and
I'm a designer, small business owner, photographer, creative, food lover, traveler, dog human, self confessed geek, music junkie, book devourer, and art enthusiast among a million other things. The full bio...
