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February 24, 2011

Sweet Disposition

This was my favorite song of 2010! The singing starts at 2:14 seconds
Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition (Dirty South Rmx)

February 22, 2011

Weekly Assignment-Recreate the Masters

Every week I receive a newsletter from The Digital Photography School and along with tips and tutorials there is a weekly "assignment" that is included.  For the last year, I had been telling myself every week "I'm going to start a blog and post these pictures on it" but obviously, I did not  :P
Last week was when I decided, this is the time! And that's when and why (for the most) this blog was created, for these assignments.
This week's assignment was to "Recreate the Masters" and I decided to recreate a very iconic image from the creator of Pop Art, Andy Warhol, using my favorite flower - a calla lilly
The link for the website's assignment is: Digital Photography School - Recreate the Masters
 























The original of this picture was taken on my phone. I have an app called "Fx Camera" which switched it to Pop Art.

February 21, 2011

February 20, 2011

Flourless Chocolate Cake

I'm obsessed...with chocolate!  A couple of Sundays ago, I was reading the Parade magazine and saw a recipe for an easy Flourless Chocolate Cake recipe.  I knew I had to try it.

Ingredients: 
7 ounces of dark chocolate (50-60%)
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
4 eggs

Ingredients






Melt the butter and chocolate in a double broiler

 Separate the 4 eggs.  Add half of the sugar to the egg yolks.  Then add this mix to the melted chocolate (make sure to temper the eggs before pouring all of it in the chocolate - scrambled eggs in this would not taste good)
Beat the egg whites and slowly add in the remainder of the sugar until stiff peaks form
Fold the chocolate into the egg whites then pour into a greased 9" cake pan and bake at 350 degrees for approximately 40 minutes
 Ta-daa! Serve with powdered sugar, fruit, whip cream...whatever pleases your taste buds!

Might I add, it's hard to bake and take pictures of the food!


February 16, 2011

Bow-tiful Bows

If you don't know already, I love making things.  My latest thing: HAIR BOWS! I have two delicious little nieces and here are some I made for them (and maybe the moms) :)

February 13, 2011

Town Center

I took a photography class a few months ago and we had homework! Here are a couple of the pictures I took using the techniques we were taught.
Vino! (for this picture: White Balance was changed to "cloudy".  Afterward, changed it to black and white and saturated the shadows)

Sunday Meditation..Aum. (for this picture: kept the white balance at cloudy, increased the ISO a notch and then saturated the colors slightly)

February 12, 2011

Enjoying the scenery

Taking it back...to September :)
Some pictures I took on the way to New Jersey