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Saturday, February 18, 2006

The New Fad of Amateur Food Photography

A few months ago, Grant Ellis, a freelancer writer for the Canadian Globe and Mail newspaper, interviewed me for an article about food photography, and the new tech infatuation of people whipping out their digicams before their fork at the restaurant.

Cruising around on Google today, I found the article got finally published, and it's indeed quite interesting - and at times hilarious.

I quote: I'm reminded of my own trip to China two years ago and the moment when I started taking pictures of my food. Afterward, I had trouble reasoning with myself. Why had I just taken a half-dozen photos of a bearded Shanghai crab, soon to be dismembered and devoured?

Eating I understand, but why did I feel the need to immortalize this transient, perishable subject? After all, by the power and pleasure of my consumption, I was essentially just conspiring to turn the thing into poop.

Thank you, Grant. I really needed this most inspiring mental image for my next assignment ...

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006

New Life

One of the reasons for my recent lack of blog posts was an almost one-week long trip to Seattle to see some friends.

As it sometimes happens in life, things go upside down, and our friends had their baby a bit earlier than anticipated. So I got to see (and photograph) their brandnew baby - a girl with the lovely name of Sophia Lilly - up close and personal.

Sophia, less than 24 hours old, holds her mama's finger.

Sophia on her first photo shoot.

Being born a bit early brings on the conveninence of being able to hang out in a tiny and really cozy warm see-through box for a while - although her parents were anxious to take her home.

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Thursday, January 19, 2006

Scanner-based Photography

Found today on JWZ's blog: Digital Camera made from Scanner.

What a neat idea. Reading up on it some more (note: this is only a mirror, as the original site seems overwhelmed right now) it made me wish I had kept my old, but still working, flatbed scanner instead of donating it to the Goodwill...

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