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Taking food photos is a bit tricky.

I admit this is what I need to work on, taking food photos. I have never quite made myself good at this. It is all trial and error of course, which makes me frustrated at times but I am willing to work on it.

This got me thinking about how to take better photos of food.

I think one of the things that make food photos look good is the way it was prepared. Food styling is an art in itself, I believe.

Another thing that makes food photos look good is the lighting. There are restaurants that have good lighting one would think they got maxim lighting stuff.

Let’s take a look at these two food photos that show how lighting make the food look better. These were not altered in any way except by cropping and putting my blog’s name on it:

Arni Sto Fornou or slow roasted leg of lamb served with potatoes and lemon au jus from Cyma in TriNoma during the Bloggers Spot Pass Food Tour last summer

This spread from Mamou in Serendra was for our perusal. I took photos here because the lighting was better than the one where the food were for taking photos. This reminds me that I have not written a post about this leg of the Bloggers Spot Pass Food Tour in Serendra, my bad. I have a post for the Spot Pass Bonifacio High Street Bloggers Food Tour restaurants though for the same blogger event

There are also restaurants with bad lighting that no matter how delicious the food is, and how well it looks, and how wonderfully it was presented, the photos do not do justice to the finished product and that is a sad thing.

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I posted early because I have work tomorrow and may not be able to put my link.

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We live in a country where the summer is humid and very hot. When its summer, we sweat profusely and do everything to ward off the heat: eat ice cream and other cold food and drink very cold ice-cold drinks, the air-conditioner is turned on, we go swimming and even wear clothes that will make us feel cool. Others even would not readily go out of their house during these days and wait for the dusk to bite before they do go out.

It really makes me wonder why there are so many comforters where we have our laundry brought because the weather can really be very humid. What gives?

When the rainy seasons come, we experience cold weather but not cold enough to use heaters, fireplaces, comforters, or electric blanket. We do not use these things where we are located but up on the mountains where lovely vacation homes can be seen, they do use these things.

How I wish we have a home somewhere where the air is cool.

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There are a lot of people who made the mistake of getting a substance abuse habit. They thought that maybe they would be able to fight it but they got hooked.

What happens when people can not get out of this substance abuse habit?

They become different persons. They do not function like they use to be, when they were free from these habits.

So what are the best ways to help them? Through drug rehab, through drug treatment, through counseling and by showing them that they are still loved.

Going back to the old routines and getting out of the habit and starting a new life is not easy. But with the help of their loved ones, they can start anew.

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One of the things that children do not experience these days is going to the park to play, well, at least, where we live. One either has to live in a gated community with complete amenities like a clubhouse and a playground or one has to go to malls and pay to play in these playgrounds. Most of the children around us do not have readily have access to a park or a playground. They usually play on the streets when school is out.

As a child, I remember going to the park at the plaza, the one in front of the church. My favorite spot was where the swings were located. I loved sitting on the swing, holding on tightly to the chains and kicking the ground to hoist myself up and down, feeling the wind on my face and on my hair.

Didn’t Robert Louis Stevenson write in a poem The Swing:

How do you like to go up in a swing?
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!

I would like to have my own garden one day with wooden swing sets. Even if I would not be able to swing as swiftly and as strong as I used to, I would still sit on my swing and spend quiet moments with my love ones. I have seen several gardens where there are wooden swing sets which are just there as decorations and this saddens me so. Swings should be sat on, used and not used as decorations.

Would you like to sit on a wooden swing?

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I am sure by now you are “umay” already with my posts featuring the food from Burgoo. Just to make it clear, we don’t regularly eat there (its not the food but definitely its not inexpensive) I just happened to take some photos in the few times I have been there 🙂

Here is a meal that you won’t probably say no to: Chicken Barbecue

Sarap to the bones?

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