Random Food Photo of the Day

I just realized that I have a very large collection of food pictures from all over the world. I am actually really happy that I can say that now.

But let's start with my favorite country of all, Vietnam!

This picture was taken back in 2008.

The mystery meat? Field Mice marinated in fish sauce, lemon grass and pepper.

If you look closely you can actually make out the shape.

They were caught in our own rice field during harvest time, which is when they are the most plump and flavorful.

Fish sauce, lemon grass and pepper will make anything taste delicious.

Fall Festival

I spent a couple hours of this morning photographing a festival at a local school where my friend works at.

She asked me if I could volunteer some time and I said yes of course and here are some of my favorite shots.

I switched between my regular zoom lens and fixed lens to capture the action and some portraits.

These were fidgety kids so I shot wide open on my zoom lens with an iso of about 600 (it was a cloudy day after all) to get a fast shutter speed.

And when I switched to my fixed lens, I opted to shoot 2-3 stops down from my max aperture, so at about 2.2-2.8 with a very low iso (50-100) to get sharper pictures. Any larger than that then too much of the subject would've been out of focus.

They were a pretty adorable bunch