Short Picture Stories from Noble Coast Photography: food photography

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Friday, April 11, 2014

Easter Egg

Not sure where the Easter egg tradition came from, but who doesn't love to color eggs?

Have a Happy Easter!

Canon 7D, ISO 100, 100mm, f2.8, 1/200, and a nice strobe

Canon 7D, ISO 100, 100mm, f2.8, 1/200 and the nice strobe

Canon 7D, ISO 100, 100mm, f2.8, 1/200, and the strobe

Peace

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Dark Companion

Swing Time

Canon 7D, ISO 200, 16mm, f/8.0, 1/400

A Sip of Wine

Canon 7D, ISO 100, 85mm, f/16, 1/200

Black and White photography and a shadow

Have a great week!

Peace

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Who out there doesn't like eggplant? Too bad for those who raised their hands. Didn't you know that eggplant has become a favorite in a home vegetable garden and they are quite delicious!

Also known as "aubergine", "garden egg", "egg apple", or "Guinea squash" the eggplant has it's origins from India and was introduced to the West in the 1500s. Like many "vegetables", eggplant is, botanically speaking, really a fruit. Huh? When picking an eggplant, go for the smaller immature plants. These tend to be less seedy and somewhat sweet. Try to get the eggplant with the shiny purple surface, once the color becomes dull, the eggplant has become over mature. An eggplant should be firm with a smooth skin. Push the surface with your thumb, the flesh should give a little then bounce back to shape.

Sadly, we shut down the family garden a few weeks ago but we were happy to find our last eggplant. I just had to take a few food photography shots of this beauty. Eat your vegetables please! Yum Yum!

Thanks for visiting the Blog and have a great week!

John

Web: www.noblecoastphotography.com

Phone: 704 905 9403

Email: noblecoastphotography@gmail.com

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Have Phone Have Camera

It's incredible how easy it has become to record memories today. It wasn't long ago that we would say "If only I had my camera!". In 2000, the first camera phone was introduced in Japan. By 2002 smart phones were entering the market. Of the 330 million wireless phones in the USA today, half are smart phones. World wide, more than 1000 cell phones are activated every minute, most with a camera!

I have found the camera in my iPhone to be a good enough camera that I no longer carry my point and shoot camera. Although I certainly wouldn't compare my iPhone camera to my Canon DSLR, you can't beat the convenience of a cell phone camera. For the most part, I use my iPhone camera for taking candid shots of family, recording a random adventure, or photography at venues that don't allow DSLR cameras.

I recently received an invitation to submit 3 camera phone shots for a contest http://bulb-photo.blogspot.com/2012/07/exciting-news-second-annual-cell-phone.html organized by Sarah Baron http://www.sarahbaron.com/. I first met Sarah at the Light Factory http://www.lightfactory.org/ where I attended her class on Composition in Photography.

The contest forced me to take all 900+ photos I had on my iPhone and import them into my photo library on my desktop computer. After reviewing the photos on my desktop, I realized there were some pretty good photos on my iPhone. Good exposure, good composition and lots of fun memories came out of that phone. Thanks to Sarah I'm looking at my cell phone photography much differently. Here are my three selections, I hope you enjoy them!

"Golden Gate" May 2011.

"A Glass of Bubbly" July 2011. http://www.ansonrestaurant.com/

"Self Portrait with Jack" August 2012. On a ride at Carowinds.

http://www.carowinds.com/tickets/

Thanks for viewing the blog and have a great week!

John

Web: www.noblecoastphotography.com

Phone: 704 905 9403

Email: noblecoastphotography@gmail.com

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Home Grown

During the first half of the 20th century communities in the United States established "Victory Gardens" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_garden. The Victory Garden was a private or community vegetable garden planted and harvested to reduce demands on the country's resources during the war years. In 1943 Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt planted a Victory Garden on the White House grounds. The Victory Garden movement proved successful as more than 20 million home gardens supplied 40% of the produce consumed in the United States. Many things changed after the end of World War II and the White House Victory Garden was replaced with green lawn. The Clintons brought back the idea of a White House vegetable garden. This effort was mainly resigned to potted plants on the roof of the White House because the White house grounds were deemed too formal for a full vegetable garden. Since then, with the many benefits of a home vegetable garden now rejuvenated in public opinion, the Obamas have planted the largest White House vegetable garden on the south lawn.

As vegetable gardens have made a comeback at the White House, so have they in many private homes all over the United States. It has been reported that the demand for vegetable seeds is up 22% since 2008. Because of economic and environmental reasons, the number of homes planting a vegetable, fruit and or a herb garden is growing at an approximate 10% rate per year! For the people who don't have room in their backyard or don't have a backyard, a community garden is often the answer. Today's community gardens are usually managed by a professional staff and sometimes require a membership fee to join. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/victorygarden/

The number of families planting a summer vegetable garden continues to grow every year. And why not? People are looking for healthy organic alternatives to what they find at the local supermarket. Whatever the reason, the increasingly popular home vegetable garden can provide families with local grown fresh vegetables and a healthy safe source of food. Anyone want any tomatoes?