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Still experimenting with my new toy...
A grey morning and I was looking for drips - the only ones I could find were hanging on the rotational dryer.
50th birthday chocolate drip cake, coated with white chocolate ganache and a glossy dark chocolate ganche 'drip' and topped with the recipient's favourite chocolates - Toblerone, Maltesers and Daim.
At the end of a busy week I thought I'd unwind and have a go at some water drip photography with the D5000...
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More focus stacking, this time I set the exposure to include the background. About 14 images stacked here as well I think.
the orig picture had a clear drip on bright sky and was very hard to make out. levels contrast or any of the common fixes couldn't pick it up well either, but since it happened to be my first successful drip shot I had to post it. I used an iridescent filter in photoshop with vivid light and it made the drip distinguishable.
Two of my friends were exchanging stories about their fancy-schmancy coffee/espresso/latte/whatever-making machines, so I wrote this about ours.
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I need to make coffee sometimes as often as several times a year. This was difficult if not impossible, before we had a coffee maker. Usually when we entertain coffee-drinking guests they are understanding of our situation, but whenever we did get caught out it was embarrassing. Luckily, some years ago, my mom decided to give us this hand-me-down coffee maker:
"Drippy", a JC Penney 1 to 4 cup drip filter coffee maker. It probably cost my mom 15 bucks at JC Penney 30 years ago. Or, even more likely, it cost her $5 at a thrift store. It has turned out to be perfect for us.
It seems likely that the quality of the coffee is way inferior to the Brewtus or Silvia, but on the plus side, even someone with my aptitude for and knowledge of coffee-making can operate the machine. That is, once I finally managed to learn -- after years of coaching -- the "one-per-cup-and-one-for-the-pot" rule. Except that I can never remember whether that's teaspoons or tablespoons. Tablespoons, I think. Maybe heaping ones.
The heating of the water is very fast. There is almost no wait from the moment you plug in the machine until the water starts comes dribbling out of the spout. The only wait is the time it takes for all four cups of the water to make their way though the spout, into the filter, through the grounds, and into the pot.
There is no need for temperature regulation. The little hotplate is what it is. There are no complicated dials or gauges requiring additional knowledge for operation.
In fact, there are no dials, buttons, knobs or levers of any kind. Luckily LG does not need to have her milk steamed, because this capability is right out of scope for the Drippy.
A handy bonus is that the reservoir on the back of the device is just the same size as the coffee pot. I can put in just the right amount of water without the need to measure.
One minor problem is that the brand of filters that originally came with the machine were apparently discontinued many, many years ago. Well, who needs 'em. I was able to find store-brand filters at a supermarket that appeared to be the same size and have served us well ever since. A bit of trivia: I bought those filters at a Schnucks supermarket. The last time we went to a Schnucks was when we lived in Illinois ... so these filters actually date back to the 20th century. (We left Illinois in December 1999.) It looks like we still have enough filters for quite some years to come. I only hope the plastic package does not crumble to dust first.
One final advantage of the Drippy: In our current apartment, where every square inch of space is super-premium, it fits very neatly into the cupboard over the microwave, which is so shallow as to be nearly useless for most other purposes. There it sits, tucked neatly away, and yet easily accessible on those rare occasions when we need it.
Not trying to sell you on the machine, of course. Just thought you might be amused to hear these details about it.
Btw, the coffee I use is whatever brand that we happen to have in our freezer from the last time we made coffee. Sometimes, if that time gets to be so many months/years ago that we can't even remember, we will buy a new bag or can at the nearest grocery store. We choose a variety essentially at random, but I'm probably biased towards advertising-based subconscious name-recognition, and/or names that have words like "roast" in them.
A piece of the house I call home.
This is the back of one of the bureaus in the bunkroom in the annex. There are 3 bureaus and a desk-cum-bedside-table. We found them all at the dump and we painted them all pretty colors. This one was green, and is now robin's egg blue!
...and yes, I do mean my family. We all had fun with this one...don't even know who actually captured it as we were all taking turns a-snappin'...
Nikon D90
Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8
SB800 drip left bounced off of white reflector
Fired with Nikon's CLS system
Processed in LR2 & CS4
Day 35 of 365 - Drip
Until I can come up with something creative I thought I would go ahead and try some of the more popular ideas others have done.
New Hydrangea Garden (D1) 2018. Installed drip irrigation for the 15 new plants, mostly Hydrangea. Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Lemon Twist', Ligularia 'Bottle Rocket', Geranium 'Brookside', Heuchera 'Pertty Perrine', Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle', Hydrangea arborescens Invincibelle® Mini Mauvette 'NCHA7', Hydrangea macrophylla 'Blaumeise', Hydrangea macrophylla 'Forever Pink', Hydrangea macrophylla 'Glowing Embers', Hydrangea macrophylla Cityline Venice® 'Venice Raven', Hydrangea macrophylla Kaleidoscope™ 'Hobella', Hydrangea macrophylla LA Dreamin® 'Lindsey Ann', Hydrangea quercifolia 'Pee Wee', Rosa 'BAIrage' Easy Elegance® All The Rage™, Spiraea japonica Double Play® Candy Corn® 'NCSX1'