zinger snap

 Say one thing about my mood say it's pretty annoyed

I am currently in the process of selecting pics for the recipe book and sending them to the graphic designer while I type the recipes and he betters the pictures and I am amazed how bad some photographs are looking to me. It's deeply upsetting also because at that moment perhaps these photos seemed fine. 

And now I want to re-click these pictures again after I have actually finished clicking all the pics. here is another set of photos I need to take again. 

What was I thinking that time?

These look so off.

I am upset. I am angry and I am irritated. 

argh

 Going through photographs of the recipes and I realize how many pictures I need to click again.

I mean what the hell was I thinking?

It's not the picture per se but I do not like the arrangement and or the cutlery used or the story. Ugh. My work ever-increasing. Who said it was easy? 

I was much better off writing a haiku book.

Damn it.

Also, the weather might not be rainy tomorrow and I am in the mood to click pictures. Here's hoping. 

lap a tap

 Who me?

Busy, busy, busy, because dear gods! What is going on with days? Or do I forget that it's a blasted Tuesday? The bane of weekdays, the poison of every week, the thorn amongst roses and whatnot.

I was just jotting down some recipes to try out and my phone wouldn't stop ringing and of all the calls there was one which was most helpful in ways I can't express.

I need help, okay! Help with the editing of photographs for my book because I can manage for the blog, but where the book is concerned I think 'gimp' alone doesn't cut it because I need deliciously glossy high shine,  polished and beautifully touched up photographs and of course, I click good pictures but even so there needs some more effort put into them to make them a certain way and for that one needs the help of a professional.

Not least because I'd be needing such help anyways to put together the formatting and write-ups but seriously I need help because specific goals require specific efforts and I need someone to assist me with reaching those goals and I'm glad I found one, now only if things pan out as expected.

Right, so now I'm busy compiling a few samples and examples of exactly how I want pictures to look and be whilst figuring out how to go about tomorrow's recipe which is lemongrass scented carrot and apple soup, both for the blog and book.

The reason I need to figure it out is that I have a cat who is still recuperating and needs to be looked after and kept from running out through the balcony which much to the animals' annoyance is closed these days and also because I need to time the damn thing. There is only so much time when the sun is available and can I make everything in that slot or will I have to push for photographs after?

 

Yes, I know, too much to think of, but I will have slightly more freedom and time once the little cat is fully well and recovered and needs no tending to.

right then!

Phew!!

 I have accomplished something of a feat today, viz., copying all the pictures of recipes for the book into my hard drive and this was the easy part.

I cannot begin to imagine what the editing process will be like, but there are almost 2 dozen recipes that need a do-over because looks like I've written the recipe in my diary but not made it and clicked it, Yes, it happens because of some reasoning I might have given myself which I cannot remember anymore.

I think next week I will start with the recipes that need that do-over.

I think I need some tea.

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I mean all this work and now I gotta cook dinner. Seriously!! This isn't right.

oh my god

Today I experienced my cats in berserk mode when I began clicking recipe pictures for a tuna salad.
When earlier it was just the one cat who gave me a hard time when I made anything tuna there are now two cats where the elder one is still a bit restrained in his anxiousness around the fish and doesn't immediately jump on the table where it's kept, but the second one, my little kitten is a barbarian who doesn't understand the meaning of patience.
No sooner had I opened the can that my house with filled with wanting meows and cries of hunger even though lunch had been given and the cats were full.
But no!
It got near impossible to click five pictures.
Oh, the madness.

food fuss

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..