Juniper, Lemon and Sea Salt Cured Salmon I have been doing a lot of research on food photography and I thought I would try to use some of my new found knowledge with a post on gravlox. I picked gravlox for two reasons, one because I used a Tasmanian Salmon that  I purchased from Honolulu Seafood company which turns out  a bright red color for my photos and the other  reason is that my wife and I like to sit around Sunday mornings eating gravlox with mustard sauce while watching the early news or a movie. Tasmanian salmon swim in very deep and cold water off the coast of Australia . The...

Two new photos that I really don’t like, but these dishes are fantastic if cooked correctly and  the pictures are taken properly. The pictures are terribly off. I got so caught up in all the functions in the “M” mode ( manual mode) that I actually have no idea what I am doing. This will get better. Since purchasing my camera, the Canon Rebel EOS XSI,  I have taken one class and really thought I new what I was doing and as you can see I need work. So what to do! I guess more classes are in order. I don’t need a photographer and a food stylist. I want to learn to take great...

     This post actually has two parts. The first part is about my blog, the second is about my grandmothers chocolate brownies and the next post will be about her blond brownies. I started a blog about two months ago with absolutely now knowledge of what I was doing. I even wrote a post on my blog about my first blog.  As I enjoy other food blogs, I noticed how crisp and clear their pictures were and what I was doing was not even close. How can someone have better pictures than me, this can’t happen. As I was reading a blog that I follow daily, I noticed that one blogger talked about...