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The crew laying our new stamped cement driveway, entryway, and walkway.
iPhone 5
Category: Photography
Crispy Fried Zucchini with Tzatziki Sauce
It looks delicious! If it wasn’t fried I’d be all over this. I gave up most fried foods in my early twenties. I splurge with French Fries once or twice a year. Maybe there’s a baked version? If so you two are the ones to find it and make it delicious! I hope you do cause I love zucchini!
One of my favorite summer vegetables is zucchini. Don’t be surprised if you see several zucchini dishes from me over the next few weeks. I have 5 zucchini plants producing right now and boy are they producing. This is one of my favorite dishes with zucchini. I served it as an appetizer on this occasion because it is so good. The tzatziki sauce with the fried zucchini creates an excellent flavor profile and is great for a meatless meal too.
Crispy Fried Zucchini
1 large zucchini
2 egg beaten
1/4 cup half and half
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup bread crumbs
1/2 cup olive oil
2 tsp granulated garlic
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
Slice the zucchini into pieces about a centimeter thick and set aside. Set out three separate shallow dishes or bowls. In the first bowl, beat the egg and half & half together with 1/3 of…
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Monochrome Madness 2 21/52: Harbor Seals
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It’s week 21 already for Monochrome Madness 2! Time races onward no matter what we Humans are doing, or are hoping to do each day, week, month, or year. I present my contribution to Leanne Cole’s MM2 project.
This is an image I made while out on Elkhorn Slough on a Pontoon Boat with 17 other members of a Favorite Photography Meet-Up group. It was a lovely morning for me, and a very relaxing Summer morning for these Harbor Seals who are on the bank basking in the morning sun.
Nikon D300s| AF-S Nikkor 300mm f/4| Lexar Professional Digital Film| CS6| Hand-held
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Our Work Has Been Stolen
I’m reblogging this to spread the word!
I think I always knew this was going to happen. In fact, I caught someone a few years ago that had stolen one of my iphone photos and was distributing it to people that wanted to create composites. I wasn’t too upset about that because it wasn’t a great photo, and it probably wouldn’t have been used for anything since it was heavily edited. At any rate, a simple cease and desist worked.
This recent discovery is much more upsetting. It’s a bit of a rabbit hole that myself and other artists have been delving into the last few days. At first it looked like another poster website selling photographs that didn’t belong to them. A bit of research has lead us to believe its much worse.
I actually found some of your work on their site too. I’ll mention the names in a minute, but I honestly don’t want…
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Sunset over Santa Clara County Hills
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Another little tree alone on a hill. This is an image I made a couple of weeks ago. It was a lovely evening: warm, with a cool breeze, and the color glowed in the sky for hours; until well after dark. A rare thing around here.
This image is a composite made from two frames blended in Photoshop CS6.
Nikon Df| AF-S Nikkor 17-35@30mm| ISO 100| Manual Priority| Tripod| Singh-Ray 2 stop Reverse Grad ND + 3 stop Grad ND filters
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In the Rose Garden
The roses are at peak right now. I spent a little while making macro images before it got too hot this morning.
My rig with my macro rail and two images in the garden using my cell phone.
More to come…
Addendum: I have given the links to the 4-Way Macro Rail, Quick Release Plate, and Quick Release Clamp on an earlier blog post here. I am not an affiliate of any of the Vendors I have links to. I provided the links for reference, and to share the information of what I’m using.
Happy Summer Solstice
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This was taken on the Summer Solstice last year (2014).
I really wanted to meet my friend Anne and go back to this area and make another Summer Solstice image from
here, but I’ve been swamped moving out of two of our 3 bdrms. We’re down to 1 bdrm now. I fell into bed last night exhausted, and slept until 7:30 this morning! So, I didn’t go out with my camera for sunrise this morning and am reposting the image I made last Summer Solstice.
UPDATE on our Remodel: The construction crew are planning to break into the interior walls of the Master bdrm, front bdrm, and entry hall tomorrow (Monday June 22,2015), and demolition of our Master bathroom begins tomorrow as well. He-Man and I are almost completely moved out of our room and will be using the Living room as our room. Only our bed, and a few things in the closet need to be moved out today.
Baby Girl, and #1 Grandson have moved to the back bdrm that I’ve been using as my retreat for years.
The roof of the house was extended and roofers finished laying on the new roof yesterday, two of the new windows are in, but the door they’re waiting until this week to install. It’s really pretty, has glass, and they didn’t want to risk any damage to it while framing and putting on the roof. YEAH!
Here’s how the house looked on the 18th of June.
…and this is where it came from. Day of Phase II back on April 30, 2015
My Summer will be largely spent in disarray, and chaos with this remodel and addition, but it will be worth all the inconvenience when it’s finished I have no doubt. Today I’m excited because we’re entering the final phases of the construction, and getting closer to having the house done.
Happy Summer Solstice Everyone!
Nikon Df| Lumix DMC-Fz200| Hand-held
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