As I started posting more and more and interacting with different people in my blog and thru other blogs, I started adding more and more links to my blogroll. It started growing longer and longer and I started reading more and more. Some bloggers became such good friends, I just had to know what u were posting and what you were cooking! I have 2 great passions, one would be cooking and the other is crafty arty stuff. Cooking is something necessary as there has to be food on the table everyday. Art on the other hand is more a luxury, an indulgence. Something I hardly have time for most of the time. That’s why my favourite part of putting up a post is composing the photo that goes with it. I feel like its kind of an art form by itself. Or what I indulge myself to believing! Sometimes I just don’t feel like typing anything at all and let the photo speak for itself. Hanne of supperinstereo has given me great tips on photography, which I really appreciate and plan to use. A blog that I’ve been watching and love so much is “simply breakfast”. It has such beautiful photos and no words at all! Thats why I said watching, not reading.. The thing I love about photography is the emotion it brings out in you. I hope by looking at my very first breakfast shot, you felt like how I felt. Happy, sunny, light streaming in, doughnut melting in the sun (yes Singapore is that close to the equator), cold soy milk in tummy (my brother is lactose intolerant so we always have soy in the house), good book in view (just for the shot, I wasn’t reading) beautiful napkin in sight and a lovely wooden box and set of wooden tags in the background that Mel bought as a souvenir from her trip to Indonesia. So whatever you’re doing, be it sewing in the sun like Tommy, I hope you enjoy your weekend! I would love it if you could take up the challenge to compose your next shot with sunlight and leave me a comment about it, so I can see what you came up with!
PS. Can anyone spot the irony in this photograph?
I can’t spot the irony! But doughnut looks nice.
Beautiful photo, and beautiful post.
Can’t figure out what’s the irony… unless it’s the contents of your book. Looks pretty sad and depressing from what I can make out. You sure it was a happy breakfast? Haha! What is it?
Wenyin, Yes! u got it.. I didn’t realize it till I viewed the photo on my computer. The page starts with ” There are worse things than pain..”
tommy: the doughnut looks nice but I didn’t eat it.. There’s a craze of doughnuts here recently with mile long queues at shops(yes Singaporeans can’t bear to see a queue anywhere. the feel impulsed to join it..) I find that the doughnuts have this artificial taste which is a little disconcerting.
vegeyum, thanks for being so complimentary, it was my first attempt and I quite like the photo too!
I’ve been meaning to drop you a line all weekend and I’ve been so frazzled, I haven’t had time. I just wanted to tell you that I love this post. It’s especially nice to look at your beautiful sunny photo today, as I look out my own window at the grey sky of a Canadian winter (we had our first snow of the season this morning. Now it’s grey and slushy).
I know exactly what you mean about art and food. I feel like for me its because I just appreciate and understand the creative impulse. I’m no artist, so my creativity has to come out in food and writing (and now photography… or at least I’m learning that one…). But it does feel good to create something, doesn’t it? To line up all the elements just so and feel like you are giving other people an experience of some sort?
Thanks for this post. I really liked it. (p.s. I know what you mean about the doughnuts. They’re pretty, but they make my mouth feel kind of… fuzzy.)