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A Black and White

Filed in photography, photoshop, March 9, 2010, 1:32 am

I’ve been reading a lot of entries at iffles.com lately, and one thing she’s got going there is a monthly theme project, where each month she has selected a theme, and invited her reader to submit photo entries into the monthly theme Flickr pool.

I’ve been a casual observer until this month, which is “Mono” … ie. black and white photos.

Id been wanting to try my hand at some more b&w photos anyways, so figured it was a good bit of inspiration to get out and do it.

So I took my camera with me to work today, as I knew that right alongside of the warehouse I was at had a railway, with a graffiti’d wall, and a chainlink/razor-wire fence… which I figured would make for an interesting gritty b&w photo.

Took a bunch of shots, and tonight I played around with the conversions to greyscale, and worked at trying to introduce a gritty look that I thought fit the ‘decrepit’ kind of scene.

Let me know whatcha think. :)

Please click the image, as it’s better viewed at the larger size.

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Bright-eyed Beauty

Filed in photography, February 21, 2010, 1:22 am

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Filed in fatherhood, February 20, 2010, 11:43 pm

With Emma’s new restricted diet, we’re searching for a wheat flour replacement for baking.

Replacing the milk and any butter is doable… but the wheat is an issue.

Lisa and I have done a lot of reading in the last few weeks, and now have a pantry cupboard full of all kinds of wheat-alternative-flours … rice flour, brown rice flour, sorghum flour, bean flour, corn flour, corn starch, potato starch, sweet rice flour, tapioca flour, etc.

We have tried a few recipes…. we’ve tried some corn meal muffins that were so-so.

I recently found a recipe on a Bob’s Red Mill (Awesome line of product, by the way) package for some walnut cranberry muffins that are wheat/gluten free, and they actually taste good, but are a bit sticky/gooey on the surface.

Lisa made some almond cookies that were basically just almond butter and almond meal, they were pretty good.

Bread is a hassle though. Without wheat, the bread just isn’t… right. I tried a pre-mix (Celimix brand) rice flour bread mix, a couple times, and it’s horrible stuff. Comes out like spongy cardboard, and tastes like it too.

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