Dinner is Served

Sunday I had the house to myself.  Mom and Dad were camping, Christopher was at the races, and Adam was in Mount Pleasant.  So I stopped at the store after church and picked up a NY Strip Steak and a potato.  Mom had made a really yummy veggie side salad for Opa's birthday party.  I was very much looking forward to my dinner and I knew it would be a nice looking plate of food. :)  So I put the potato in the oven and a little while later, fired up the grill.  Once everything was done I plated my food, made sure the plate was clean, set it on the table and started taking photos.  Then, once I got my shot, I dug in.  It tasted just as good as it looks!  Don't be jealous :)

Random Plate of Color

I could have taken a photo of my diner, I had steak and potatoes, but that would have been too easy.  I instead took a photo of this plate of color food.  The plate is a representation of what was in my fridge after a trip to the store and before I made diner.  I went with color over practicality-I laughed to myself that I should cut everything up and make a salad or have to use everything on the plate in a meal-like the show Chopped.   I did eat some of the fruit on the plate and for some reason everything had a strong onion taste.

Yummmm

This weeks topic involves, food, cooking, a plate and eating.  This weeks topic is an Adam topic:

A PLATE OF FOOD

The fun with this topic is not only do we get to photograph something, we get to eat and enjoy what we photograph. :)  Stop by later to see what our plates of food look like.  

OFF!

I will be honest, there were a lot of ideas that went through my head.  A condom....birthcontrol...a US ARMY tank....a bible...but last night at my Opa's 83rd birthday celebration I looked over at the picnic table and there sat 3 bottle of OFF bug spray just begging to have their photo taken.  So being the nice photographer I am, I obliged their begging and took some photos.  Then, after talking to Adam he told me it better be an interesting photo.  Therefore, I played around with some photoshop stuff and came up with this.  Probably not as "shocking" as a condom, but it's still PROTECTION :)

No Pass Protection

There were a lot of funny ideas for this weeks topic, (your mind can wonder) but the idea I had didn't work out.  I drive by a high school every day and on Monday their football was practicing.  I thought to myself I will come by tomorrow with my camera and photograph their practice and call it "Pass Protection".  Well from my photo you noticed that didn't happen.  Long work days, dinner parties and the team not practicing I never did see that team again.  That gets us to this photo-My apartment protection.  That folks is a state of the art dead bolt.  It protects me from intruders and the common thugs that hang out in my apartment building hallways.  It makes me feel safe.

Laughter...

that's not our topic this week but the reaction we both had when the topic came out of the hat.  PROTECTION, is this weeks topic.  How does our mind work?  Come back later this week to find out. 

Done

I needed Erica's help for my self portrait, and hopefully you can tell why.  I am always entertained when I have to stand in a photo and the self timer is set so the photographer has time to make it into the photo.  Thus i had an idea;  Using my self timer how far away could I go.  We went over to the soccer field to try it out.  Took some trial shots, set the timer and took off.  Here is what you get.  What I can say now, you can make it pretty far.