Yum!

A slice of tangerine......back lit again by a small candle......please read....to all my friends here......

OK...this is again with my new camera, if you looked in yesterday, you will know, I now have the Fuji S 9500.......what I didn't say yesterday and I have debated whether or not to say and have decided to spill the beans.....is, that when I ordered this camera I made an agreement with myself that I would give up smoking, I know a stupid habit, which probably most of you didn't know I did or didn't do anyway.....but there we have it, I had my last cigarette at 10 am Thursday 11th January......it is now 8 pm Saturday 13th, this is the longest I have gone without a cigarette, since I started smoking 20 odd years ago.......

If I don't comment on your photos or forget to say thank you...please make allowances...... I am determined to QUIT!!!......but sometimes I have to leave my PC and be busy DOING something else.....I am finding today really hard.....probably because it's the weekend....

Anyway I just wanted to share this with you....in-case you were wondering why I'm being a bit sporadic with photos and comments etc....

Day 3.....Smoke Free Gale....I'm not even sure if I have made much sense here, but I'm sure you get the gist of it.......

I'll keep you updated,

There are so many other reasons why I want to give up smoking, most of the other reasons are far, far more important than a new camera......but I'm using the camera as my prop, instead of a cigarette...!!

My first attempt at the sliced fruit tutorial from DIY Photography: www.diyphotography.net/create-wonderful-sliced-fruit-images

Natural light from the right and SB-600 off-camera flash in i-TTL mode.

The Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer and a banana.

sliced apple

© Scott Van Manen Please don't use without permission.

Some days just blend into one another...

natural colored geode slices from Mexico mined in the 1950's

Summertown, Oxford, 2006

On a marble chopping board rest two slices of rustic-looking bread with olives baked into it. Next to them is the heel of the remaining bread.

Sliced red onions for the dam aloo.

Read the blog: www.jpl.nasa.gov/blog/columns/slice-of-history/

A quick snapshot of a farmer's field on my way home early morning...

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A photo from my Android phone. Always tasty, had the chicken slice and one plain, had the other for breakfast.

I fried this mushroom for my lunch – I had other things as well 😀

Slicing the green & red apples across their width for apple pie

slice

sliced fig

a macro shot of a seed i picked up in the maldives sliced in three

Escort Whale does a peduncle throw in Maui, Hawaii.

Blog Post: What's on the Grill #259: Glazed Christmas Ham

could be somehow used as a commercial... I guess.

Wahkeena Falls in the Columbia River Gorge; a shorter side of her.

An iconic product shot of a slice of bread ..

For my photography study (subject Photography Technique) we had to reproduce an image of a slice of bread .. the assignment was to learn to:

- properly read the lighting from the original image

- find a bread slice that looked alike as much as possible (iconic shape)

- try to place the crumbs as in the original

The idea is that you learn to watch and be able to, for example, reproduce your own photo when your costumer decides 'I want the EXACT same shot but then with white bread' - a month after the shoot :)

probably boring to you ;)

This is Maureen's ingenius method for slicing tofu very thin. She

slides a length of dental floss against two low-profile jewel cases.

Model: Avery Carlton

Photographer: Aaron Nace