a tea party and cake

A good friend had a tea party yesterday for her 21st birthday. I took my camera. Apparently I am incapable of taking a good photo of a person, but here are some tea cup photos for your enjoyment.

There were many teas and teapots.


This one is basically straight out of camera. Can't believe it turned out so well. Also, the cake was amaaazing.

I was mega dainty and lady-like in my jeans.


Note to self. Don't sit facing the sunniest window. Makes for... interesting light.

pumpkin pie, tassie style

Step One. Decide that it's a good afternoon to cheat, and buy pre-made pie crust.


Step Two. Make pumpkin pie using awesome and super simple recipe.


Step Three. Realise you have boatloads of pie mix left over. Add a bunch (that's an exact amount, no really) of SR flour and make pumpkin pie mini-muffins.


Step Four. Stare in horror at the mess you've made. Decide to blog instead of cleaning up.


Step Five. Eat pie for dinner (no-one wants a photo of that).

i sort of wish i was a food blogger

It turns out that I have a slight Joy the Baker obsession. Not weirdly, and it's only slight. But I love her recipes, and it would appear that they're the only things I've cooked lately that I've taken photos of.

(cinnamon sugar pull-apart bread)

It's possible that most of the rest of what I've cooked has been toasted sandwiches, but I digress.(mustard roasted potatoes)

Anyway, again with the pretty new camera and photoshop. It's quite hard taking food photos at my house because there's not a lot in the way of natural light. We live in the shadow of a mountain in half a house with very few windows. And according to practically every food blogger I've ever heard talk about photography (which is THOUSANDS*), natural lighting is best. Luckily, photoshop is my friend.


* Joy, shutterbean and the pioneer woman. Ok. Three.

sum fotos

I bought a new camera a couple of months ago. Have I said that? Anyway, I've been experimenting a bit, cos it's a digital SLR and has about a thousand settings to play with. And then there's photoshop :)
Love.
Anyway, thought I should show y'all a few.

Not quite in focus. Silly little moving insects.



Saturation!

Actually, I think I'll post the rest later, they're mostly food-y.

new camera

Having muchly fun playing with my fancy new camera. Took this on Saturday night at Humphrey's birthday party.

pretty :)