Welcome to Friday Foto Flogging, a place to share your photos and photography news. We were inspired by the folks at European Tribune who post a regular Friday Photoblog series to try the same on this side of the virtual Atlantic. We also thought foto folks would enjoy seeing some other websites so each week we’ll introduce a different photo website.
This week’s theme: All Things Food.
Things to eat being made, eaten, grown, sold and the places where all that happens.
Website of the Week: XRez: Extreme Resoultion This company produces software to create large-scale panoramic images. Interesting technology. Cool pictures.
AndiF’s Food(?) Pics
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Sushi Fest
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Cake Watch
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Oh these kids. Always fighting over who gets the legs.
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olivia’s food fotos
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Carcassonne France
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Not going to share the fries
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Baked potato and leek soup
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- Next Week’s Theme: Roads, Rails, and Trails. Show us some paths you’ve taken … pictures of.
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Previous Friday Foto Flogs
A quick post before bed and/or the power goes out again.
Our first homegrown artichoke. Considering that the artichokes only got watered when I rinsed the slime out of the dog bucket, we were lucky to get even the one flower/fruit.
I love the “design” of artichokes. Even better, I love them dipped in butter. 🙂
Me too! Nummy.
Yay, there’s power (off for most of last evening) and ImageShack (which has been down this morning), all at the same time.
The fruits of our garden:
This mushroom, plus an additional 10lbs of ones just like it, came up last fall under the straw mulch in our herb and lettuce beds.
Boysenberry pie, from our very own boysenberries. I made the cutting board its sitting on from a piece of Tasmanian Sassafras wood, which is known for its spectacular contrasting colors.
Last year’s herb bed.
Lettuce.
The herb garden is so lovely — and tasty too, I’ll bet.
I think the bunnies are the greatest beneficiaries of the herb garden’s largess, but yes, we do love our fresh herbs and cook with them almost every night during the growing months.
And yes, we know how lucky we are.
The tomato varieties we grew in ’06.
Great composition and a gorgeous picture.
Thanks. Unfortunately the late frosts have made this a very bad year for the garden, and the tomatoes in particular. We have a few survivors and may get a small harvest eventually. Fortunately we are friends with a family who have a market garden, and have put in an advance order for 50kg/110lbs so we can make (and preserve) enough pasta sauce to get us through to the next year.
Chive blossom.
Boysenberry blossom.
Oops, I almost forgot . . .
Darth Tater versus the Pumpkin Pie.
Oh wow, that looks scrumtious.
Looking for food.
They’re so cute!
Yeah, they were everywhere after the summer flooding. We kind of disturbed him/her while it was digging in the leaves.
Those are really great, Bob. The hawk photo is just amazing.
Thanks, it was taken early this year in the Everglades and I was lucky enough to get a whole series.
What’s the bird sitting on the feeder?
Great crested flycatcher.
Cool, I’ve never seen one before.
Green Springs, Enterprise, Florida
This is food for the mind and body, one of a handful of sulfur springs in the area. Yes, the water really is that color.
I apologize for missing that couple FFF. I haven’t gotten out much recently and I also missed stopping by one week. Also, I’d like take the opportunity to point out I started a new blog to concentrate on my photography in an effort to separate it from Phillybits. It can be found here and so far only has a handful of posts but hopefully, that will increase as time goes on. I’m not big on the WordPress format and am still getting used to it but…eh, whatever.
Anyways, here’s my submissions for this week’s FFF.
Holiday Candy
Thanksgiving Treats
Election Night
Snacktime
All Mine
Pizzzzzaaaa!!!
No contest for my favorite. What a wonderful portrait Holiday Candy is.
It was actually a trial HDR created from a single RAW. Although it’s still grainy, I love how it came out.
Me either, nothing like a great big smile to make your day.
Am I the only one getting hungry?
Japanese BBQ – Chinzan-so garden, Tokyo Japan
Shrimp and fried Cod – Tokyo Japan, a friend’s wedding
Large whitefish – Tenerife, Canary Islands Spain
Chicken feet, mussels, and bok choy – Quanzhou China, another friend’s wedding
Sometimes your food drinks your beer! – Beijing, China
Also, the dogs. 🙂
We all think everything scrumptious.
After viewing this thread, I’m very hungry…
Mmm, tamales. When I lived in Texas, our next door neighbors (who were Mexican immigrants, and some of the best cooks I’ve ever known) made tamales and they were amazing.
it’s that magical time of year. i can’t wait to get to my parents’ casa next week to gorge on them.
I think I can smell it cooking frm here. What time is dinner?
if you start driving now, sometime Sunday.
Damn. You. Manny. I love/adore/practically worship tamales and I cannot get corn husks or even banana leaves here to make a proper one.
if they’re shippable, I would send you a bunch without hesitation. just let me know. not sure on any customs restrictions.
(a bunch = corn husks)
Bless you. I’ll check with AQIS, but we have really strict quarantine for plant material.
My birthday cake from a couple of years ago.
So still got it? 😉
as someone who saw you in person that year, you look great for two years old. 😀
since tree rats seem to be the subject du jour, here’s one the the locals enjoying an apple:
they also enjoyed the plums this year…had a good crop:
chives w/ oil lamp:
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I’m really taken by the color of the chives against the gold of the lamp.
Christianity began in Syria, and Ma’lula is one of many important ancient Christian sites there. This vender drives his truck up and down the streets – kind of like the ice cream truck in the U.S.
Forgot to mention that he sometimes hands out samples to induce people to buy.
I’m pretty sure I could be induced to buy, with or without samples. Never thought a pickup truck could be beautiful. 🙂
I would love to have him drive through my neighborhood (well, at least drive through a nearby area with a neighborhood – we’re rural enough that we don’t even get mail, much less vending trucks).
Safaa serving her famous roast chicken.
OK, that did it, now I really am hungry.
Food as art. Or art as food. I love Paris.
Everything looks so good, I just want to reach in and try it all.
hurria, l love your photos, l really do…but that wallpaper is likely to precipitate a flashback.
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Yeah, it’s pretty – what do they call it? – psychedelic?
Amazing photos, as usual Hurria, but now, after the wall “treatment”, I`m tripping.
This is the first time tonight I`ve been able to access BT.
Strange.
Hopefully, I`ll be able to gain access to post some fotos.
The fruit & nut street vendor is great.
Terraced hillside
Terraced hillside with fruit trees
Terraced hillside behind the house in Harf Al Mseitra in the coastal mountains above Jebleh, Syria.
And suddenly, high in the mountain, you come upon this small valley
This is a wonderful set of shots but the last one is especially appealing — there’s something about the patterned land sitting in the “cove” that I find very appealing.
It really is something amazing to come upon and look down into. It’s much more interesting in person, too. Next visit, assuming I get up there for a few days, I will try to spend more time and get some better shots of it.
Part of the appeal, I think, is the sense of separateness — while I know it’s probably an illusion, I look at it and feel it’s somehow another world from everything around it.
No, that is exactly how it feels. You look down into this valley and you feel you are looking into another world, and you find yourself very curious about it, and about the people who live down there and work that bit of land. And you wonder how long it has been like that and how it got that way.
My husband and I often hike in areas of the southwest where we will come across ancient ruins. These are often in alcoves and we’ll go in and sit in the alcoves, looking out at basically the same land the original peoples would have seen. There will be no one around and the only interruptions in the quiet will be wind and bird calls. Time and place fall away and get replaced by a strong sense of connection, a wonderful feeling. Your picture evokes the same sense.
chile relleno and quesadilla dinner in Nogales, Sonora, México
I’ll have what you’re having.
Ah, the heart attack plate – my favorite! (I remember someone doing a study of Mexican food in New Mexico that concluded the chile relleno had the most fat of any dish – and this is from the State that gave the world Navajo fry bread, mmmmmmm.)
After work food
Fish sandwich fund raiser (Sen. Birch Bayh at right)
Adult food (my favorite)
One YO with cupcake
I’ll see your after dinner food and raise you one anytime food
Looks like a lovely spot to kick back and relax!
It really is. At any time of day or night! But beware the Syrian beers – the bottles are huge!
Must have been one very fine cupcake. Love it.
He’s a very good natured little guy, but don’t get between him and a cupcake!
Wouldn’t dream of it. Cute photo.
Well – everybody has really outdone themselves this week and I’m starving. I love all the international feasts – for the eyes as well as the appetite!
Although I`ve had trouble accessing BT, & almost gave up,(I said almost)
I finally got through. Better late than never, so here`s a little desert.
Apple basket
Pumpkin basket
Bedtime snack
Waiting for juice
Good to the last drop.
Any left?
The back side of the café.
Checkered tablecloth
Living escargot
Pita bread
It wouldn’t have been the same without you.
The two basket pictures are wonderful — I feel like I can just reach my hand into the monitor and … ouch … well okay that doesn’t work.
And ::snort:: on the “pita bread”. 🙂
Thank you Andif,
I wouldn`t be here without your venue.