BWW- Lemonade

 

Lemonade

This is my third entry for Black and White Wednesday - A Weekly Culinary Photo Event.
Hosted by Aparna at My Diverse Kitchen and Cinzia at CindyStarBlog. 

Organic Terrace Garden

We, my husband Ranjit and I started small with a few herbs and roots, from there we ventured to ornamental plants and Bonsai's, eventually leading to Organic Vegetable gardening. I have always been excited to grow my own food, just that now its more of a necessity than pleasure, considering the fact that I still haven't located an organic vegetable store here in Kochi. If you know about one, please leave a comment with the details of the store, I would be eternally grateful.

The fruits are the result of Ranjit's love, care and his exceptionally good green thumb. The only effort that I took, was to have read this article, about this awesome initiative by the Kerala Government to provide the residents in cities with grow bags and seeds at subsidized rates. When I called the Horticulture Mission Perumbavoor, I was told that since I'm not living in a city, the scheme is not available to me. I was not going to give up coz I had a terrace and I knew that they had to include me in the scheme. I then called Kochi Horticulture Mission (For details contact: Agri-Horti Culture Society: 0484-2362738; Better Kochi Response Group: 9895404108.) and was told, if I register my name, I can go collect the plants on the date given by them from an address in Kochi town. Got myself registered and after three weeks, got 20 growbags full of potting soil and seedlings each of Ladys finger, tomato, brinjal, green chillies, beans (payar) and seeds for red spinach (cheera) (which we haven't planted yet).

Good news about Kerala becoming a completely organic state in 5years time. I just hope the plans actually work out...

These are a few pictures of our healthy Organic Terrace Kitchen Garden. :)

Food Photography Excercise: A View from Above

The pictures of the overhead shots by Aparna are just awesome... That chocolate bar is just amazing. They really got me excited for this exercise... but the excitement lasted only till I started clicking.... I was so out of my comfort zone.... I actually took an effort to do food styling and understood that I have a long way to go.

I'm not very happy with any of these pictures. I didn't even feel like posting this but then I realized if I don't link in for this exercise, I'm not going to learn... The tips I got in the previous exercises have been very helpful...So here I am trying to pick out the few decent shots to share and learn to make it better....

Grissini - Italian Bread Sticks   Aperture :f/3.5  Shutter Speed : 1/80s   ISO :320

Grissini - Italian Bread Sticks     Aperture :f/3.5  Shutter Speed : 1/80s   ISO :320

 

Vegan Cashew Yoghurt Starter     Aperture :f/ 6.3  Shutter Speed : 1/15s   ISO :320

 

Tomato Sambal       Aperture :f/5  Shutter Speed : 1/25s   ISO :320

 

Tomato Sambal      Aperture :f/4.5  Shutter Speed : 1/30s   ISO :320

The more I look at them, the more I feel like, maybe I could have just moved it a bit or taken the shot from even further up... so many things going through my head... I just am not satisfied at all...