A Favorite Recipe: Braised Pork Chops with Tomatoes, Cream & Porchini Mushrooms

Apr 172011
 

I’m a much better cook than I am a photographer. This recipe is the bomb.  The photo doesn’t do it justice!  Since the recipe comes from my favorite Italian cookbook, Essentials of Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan, I won’t reprint the recipe except to write about it generally. Continue reading »

Four Points

Apr 132011
 

The Challenge: Find and interesting or not so interesting place and stand and take pics of the 4 points of the compass. North,South,East and West.

I’m no photographer. I used to just snap at random. Now I’m learning from scratch. I don’t know the first thing about photography, but I know what I like at least.

The location: Morges Independence Park, Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Lets just say, the location makes up for my horrible shooting skills.   Instead of shooting from one pivitol point,  I shot subjects at one pivitol point at an approximately equal radius from each direction. I’m glad I did it because using the subjects taught me some valuable, albeit entry-level lighting skills.  Later I went back and shot it again as the pivitol point. Here are the shots, as is, no re-touching, and what I learned.

First Set: Middle of the Park, Mid-Morning, Subjects at One Point

 

East (more like South East, but we’ll call it East): Looking toward Lake Geneva and the Alps. We’ll call it East, but it’s more like South East.  Even without obvious sun shine, time of day makes a huge difference. It’s still morning on a different day, East-ish, where the lighting is behind the subjects, making their faces still difficult to see.  Continue reading »