The beautiful slightly sunny moody weather this morning beckoned with open arms that smelled of summery winds and fluttered with ripe richness of luxuriant soft sunlight.
Just the kind of weather that promises perfect photographs; not completely bright neither sullen with a dusky dirge.
The perfect lighting one often seeks that sometimes happens around evening, when the sun has moved westwards and the piercing harshness of unforgiving summer sun is lightened by evening filters of sombre gold.
Tuesdays, im my experience have been most heartless to me, and this beautiful gift of gorgeous weather was probably a sympathetic gesture on today's part, considering how stormy, chilly and typhonic wet yesterday had been.
Today was delightfully photogenic what with blue skies woven with gold threads I decided to harvest the advantageous weather into clicking pictures for a new recipe for the food blog.
No matter how small a recipe, the entire procedure from start to finish takes a lot longer than one'd expect.
factor in the setting of ingredients, clicking pictures, setting up tripod and other photography paraphernalia (reflectors in my case) and shifting their focus etc, clearing the platform each time a new step has to be clicked and structuring each step involves a lot of time.
Add to that cleaning the kitchen side by side while clicking pictures to avoid a mountain of dishes in the sink along with an unclean background.
One doesn't want any photograph to show messy preparatory work in the background.
Also dishes tend to pile up a lot more because you end up using extra utensils, measuring cups etc., especially if you're visually descriptive about each ingredient.
Not just, one has to begin early morning too. Or chances are you'd start losing good light, because we live in houses with roofs over our heads and windows aren't always aligned the way we'd want.
So keeping all the above mentioned in mind I started with a recipe pretty much from scratch which took me almost two hours to get done, something that'd have on an ordinary day taken not more than 20 minutes.
Right, so everything done and I was readying to click pictures of the finished recipe when lo, with a gurgling rumble of a broken thunder the skies decided to go dark and burst into a deluge.
I'd begun to have a foreboding sense of Tuesday's malicious intents somewhere in between the cooking process, but the bipolar nature of sun and sky assured me with enough optimistic brightness, only to be mocked by a sudden regurgitation of the gods.
Well, what can one do when sudden darkness hits your day and all that was perfect goes down the abyss..well, you keep trudging on and that's what I did.
Ignoring the sudden lackluster attempts at lighting I continued clicking pictures and cursed everything all the time.
To say that I was enraged would be putting it rather tepid. I was three parts violent, two parts hysterical and one part bitter.
Gah to everything..I think I even screamed a bit, and almost avoided having a little meltdown by reminding myself about the existence of photoshop..but even the best of photoshop can't replace a good weather.
Sobs..
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