The September Home Grown Challenge. Yes, I am still eating off the farm and have decided that when I do this for a year (feed myself only from my own farm) it will be BOREDOM that gets to me in the end. I do have food, but it is the same food over and over again (except I have run out of potatoes and onions). Hilarious really. Tasty. But I am longing for strong cheeses and salami and fish, etc
Then there is The Food Photography challenge to improve my food images. Yesterday I was working on Depth of Field so more of the image is in focus. But not much to show for my efforts yet. Though I do feel a style developing, simmering.
This is my only food shot from yesterday. I am making yoghurt so that I can use it to start a farmers cheese tomorrow. Then I am going to make a pizza so I can take a photo of it!
Do you want to make a pizza too? On Friday? We could have a pizza date and take photos of our pizzas and link them up for Saturday morning. Pity we can’t have a taste test. I don’t know about beetroot on a pizza though! Could be interesting. I will start a fresh pizza sauce today.
And then of course there is the challenge of the daily chores. I am training the piglets who are no longer piglets to graze in a new field. I only let them out when it is almost feed time, so they go out and forage for greens as fast as they can with one eye on my movements over in my feed corner. This way they will not get into the habit of going under theses fences and causing trouble.
In the Comments Lounge of yesterday’s post are some new food photography links plus a few good technical tips from our Mentors. And one comment that is very important is from Roger. He said that the camera does not matter, it is all about the seeing. He is right too. I have seen some fantastic shots taken with a phone. Though not mine, as I have yet to work out how take photos with my phone.
A related post. This post I wrote a few years ago on how to take good shots with an ordinary camera. There are a few nice shots from Route 66 if you feel like a wee look.
Which leads me to picmonkey recommended by Barbara yesterday. I went to have a look and it is great for simple post production. I am looking forward to playing with their gallery feature.
And what were we doing on the farm a year ago today? Our first frost. No sign of that this week though. Nice.
Good morning. I hope you all have a lovely day.
your friend on the farm, celi
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99 responses to “Life is One Great Big Exciting Challenge”
Did you ever get around to the violets or milkweed? Just curious! I taught Edible Wild Plants to my Pathfinders on Sunday and ate them both (along with several other things).
Violets candied look lovely on cup cakes!!!!
Thanks for sending me back to the photography tips. I picked up some bits that I missed the first time round, including the bit about your mother being an artist. My mother was too! And so we both grew up learning how to see in imaginative ways. How lucky we were.
Those are words for success “Life is One Great Big Exciting Challenge”… 🙂 It’s a fair bet in our house if it’s Friday it’s pizza. I’ll see how the prep and pics go. I wondered what you did, if anything for fish. As we are this month eating from the pantry/freezer there were tins of tuna and salmon for my lunches, sardines for pizza, and a lucky packet of smoked salmon in the fridge. The farmers markets have great smoked trout, which we eat with fritters and salad, but like you I’m looking forward to the end of September and broadening our food scope. As well, we will be off to our house in the country (near the coast) so the change of scenery will be most welcome as well as a visit to the seafood co-op.
Quite a few years ago I went on a 6 week meat, eggs, plain yoghurt, select veges (no potatoes or avocado), black/green tea, water anti-candida diet… it was BORDEOM that made me lose so much weight, not the food, I just couldn’t be bothered eating.
Actually, beet root on pizza is delicious! Not a traditional tomato sauce pizza, but I made one in August like this: roasted and peeled the beets, sliced them thin. Topped the crust with those, some of the chopped beet greens, and a balsamic glaze. Well, then there were also walnuts and a blue cheese crumble, and I’m not sure that fits with your “eat from the farm” philosophy, but you maybe can improvise with something else. Yum!
Also: just caught up on yesterday’s post. Thank you for the photography tips and inspiration! My food photos are amateur and icky; now I’m determined I can improve.
I always so enjoy your photos. You capture the mood and personality of all the Farmy’s inhabitant very well. You give them a voice with your photos.
I agree!!! I have tons of photos of our place and everything on it…friends and family love them! I love all the photos Ceci!!! 😀