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Welcome to Moments Photography by Sandy's blog about photography and creativity. Always on the prowl for ways to keep learning, trying, inventing and shooting pictures. I will share my adventures, addictions, and antics below. Come visit often and share what you will. Live abundantly, giving, sharing and loving. . .
Change to Stay the Same
I made a change. It helped me to know that I still haven't changed. Sometimes it's just alright to like the same thing over and over. You like it every time, like my Aunt's potatoes and noodles. I know, potatoes and noodles, really? Strange, it's one of those things I changed. Ok, I'll try it. I liked it. Now, I love it. We call those foods, comfort foods. Food can bring comfort. Flowers always bring comfort and joy, with less calories. But if I'm going for it all. Make it roses and cheesecake and time to photograph it first.
Mother's Day roses bloom every year, just in time...and cheesecake.
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Bread of Life
Bread is life. To be more precise, it was life. Bread that sustains life has nutrients. It has fiber. The taste generates a natural saliva upon entering the mouth. That is not what is on the shelf in most stores. But there is hope. Artisan Bread is worthy. It takes us back to the state of natural wellness that food is meant to be. No preservatives, no additives are needed. A pleasure for the mouth and its travels through the body.
The image below has very little post production. The image that follows uses a preset designed by KimKlassen.com. She also offers online classes.
I want a slice of life, shown here.
Gather, Drop, Arrange and Shoot
A collection of found objects and stuff.
Gather, drop, arrange and shoot pictures. In the age of digital photography what a joy it is that you aren't limited to only a few clicks. Now we can take as many pictures as we want. Back in the film days, I was limited to my cash flow. Today I can look and see in an instant the image in the camera. Back then, I had to take notes to match with images. It might be weeks or months before I finished a roll of film and had it developed. Above is a collection of mostly found objects while walking the neighborhood. Below is a simple placement of a leaf on an antique chair. Both have a mood and a place and time to be my preference.
(Check out KimKlaussen.com for photography prompts, textures, presets, online classes and more.)
Pumpkins and Pie, Oh My!
Oh my, I love pumpkin pie. I've loved it all my life. I didn't know how excited I would be to grow a pumpkin and make it into a pie.
Here's my 33.3 lb. pumpkin...
And here is a gem: my grandmother's pumpkin pie recipe. I actually made this pumpkin pie with honey. It was quite good.
"Southern Living" fall magazine for 2015 had a recipes for their pumpkin cookbook. I now have a new favorite and it's a surprise: pumpkin lasagna. I used spinach instead of kale, and it is now a family keeper.
(Organic - photo prompt for KimKlassen.com, "Be Still" online class.)
Still Life - Family Portraits
P.Holley wanted to live by the sea. Now in free floating the seas, she is a mermaid.
Life changes. Everything is life changes. Changes are the constant in life. I know these things, but in the knowing I am still shaken sometimes. My Seoul mate, whom I met in Seoul, Korea is now just that - a soul. Her body left this Earth last May. She had many more things on her bucket list. Many of those things involved travel. Her many friends have continued the journey of her body by traveling to far places and far flinging her ashes. I was one of those friends. We went to the beach. We finally went to the beach. It was a most magical time. A hawk flew with me to the water. Pelicans put on a show of synchronicity that I was able to record on video. It was an overcast day, so we had the place to ourselves. Just her and my best friend of many decades and I were walking the beach. Some of her now rests beneath the white sands, and some of her resides in places the ocean has taken her.
(Image inspired by "Be Still" class by KimKlassen.com)
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