Life, The Universe and Everything

• Mish Mash

  Posted: October 11, 2008, 7:49 am by egm

  Down to 1 post a month. That's sad! But, such is the way of life. Too much going on that makes regular posting impractical.
  
  September was a dead month! Very few jobs coming my way. I thought it was just me, but I hear from others they faced similar stuff. October, by contrast, has been a great month, with a job almost every other day! And this barely two weeks into the month. The funny thing is, I had put out an offer to friends for free photo shoots. I needed to practice photography! Otherwise I'd find myself regressing. As soon as I'd put out these offer, jobs started streaming in. So that offer had to be placed on hold.
  
  The highlight of October will be covering the wedding of two good friends of mine. 3 days before the first anniversary of the first wedding I covered from start to finish with Raul.
  
  I had my first engagement session late September. A couple that is getting married in December wanted to have photos of both of them taken. So I spent about an hour and a half with them having a blast taking their photos. What a way to break the ice with a couple, such that by the time of their wedding they are comfortable enough with you that they look free and naturally relaxed in their pictures. Something I probably need to do more of.
  
  Some of the downtime afforded me opportunity to try things other than photography. So I decided to try my hand at baking. The problem with that is, once you know how to bake something, then you keep doing more of it, and before you know it the kilos start piling up. So it has to be controlled!
  
  The holy grail of baking is the black forest cake. I tried it the first time round, and it came out less than I'd expected. But some friends that tasted it said it was okay. Maybe they wanted to spare my feelings, bless them.
  
  
  
  Round two turned out much better. Still not perfect, but closer to it. And tasted a whole lot better! I used up an entire 250ml bottle of Viceroy on it. Maybe I should not say that out loud lest I get murderous glances from some that shall remain unamed!
  
  
  
  Kirima in this post reminded me of days gone by when photographing things as simple as bees on a flower provided much excitement to me. I realise now that there's a danger of being too focussed on the money aspect of photography that you lose the passion for photography in and of itself. Which, if one is not careful, can lead to sub-par images. And so I am taking it upon myself to re-ignite that passion. Thanks Kirima for that reminder!
  
  Enough of this mchanganyiko maalum of a post. Time to go off and click away. Nice weekend y'all!

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Fish cakes

Alas a fish cake.

Yet more fish cakes

Guess what ... yeah ... fish cakes.

The end of the fish cakes