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Love affair with coffee and light

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
Cream in my Coffee 

Cream in my Coffee

Reflecting back, I’m noticing that I seem drawn to taking pictures of my coffee. I’m sure I could dig in deep and psycoanalyze the reasons, but in the end I think it’s one of my main joys in life. I’ll pass on the booze, the rich and sweet foods, the travel – so long as I can have a leisurely cup of coffee, I’m in heaven.

The caption image to the right is doubtlessly my signature coffee image. Stolen worldwide and still driving most traffic to my Flickr stream. Earlier last week you might have seen another cup of coffee. Saturday morning, it was this:

Latte, technically

Latte, technically

It’s interesting that the only fully successful image (in my mind) is my first. I really like the last image, but it’s really a portrait of a cup, not coffee. I suppose this

really requires more thought…

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Cup of Coffee

Monday, June 13th, 2011

From this morning:

Mug and a spiderweb

Mug and a spiderweb

The setup: my daughter woke me up early, and insisted on a fresh-grilled hot dog for breakfast.  I’m cool with that – I mean, we only have certified parve hot dogs* (all beef), so we consider it kosher to have them at any time.

Yes, that pun was deliberate.

So I go out, and see a deliciously sunny morning. Ran for the 80-400mm lens & looked around for interesting things while the grill warmed up, then while the hot dog roasted. One of the first things I noticed: the spiderweb, which isn’t that sharp here. It was kinda insignificant, unless against a dark background.  But when I placed the mug next to it, I noticed a wonderful reflection of light coming off of our home.  Yes, I was using the side of our home as a reflector.

And I thought that was cool enough to post in its own right.

Another thing that I liked about this: when thinking about Jay Maisel’s philosophy of watching the edges, I felt that I pulled this one off just a bit better than I have in the past.  It’s like I’m on the very edge of understanding how to put these together without adding in distracting elements.

And that feels pretty damned good.

* Hebrew National, in case you care.

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