A Study in Strawberries

You probably think that I’m going to throw a recipe out at you, don’t you?

Nah…if you want recipes, go to my other blog which admittedly is where I’ve been spending most of my blog time.

Sorry!

It’s my new passion!

But so is perfecting my photography skills….

This post is about conquering what you don’t know.

Today, I had a breakthrough in understanding something that I thought I knew, but really didn’t.

Confused?

Well so was I.

It is about hurdling the obstacle….

The obstacle for me was really understanding the basics of photography and my camera.

Oh sure, I’ve been lucky.  I’ve heard from many of you as to how much you love my photography.

But I have been lucky.

I have the eye but needed to conquer the technology of dslr camera.

Lucky….

and lazy….

Food photography is different with it’s own set of challenges and if  I even wanted to be decent at it…

I need to take time to learn from the experts.

I bought the book – From Plate to Pixel by Helene Dujardin…

and I’m going to take lessons from a respected former colleague of mine.

He told me that I have the right brain part of it down – I just need to engage the left brain.

Engaging the left brain is so difficult for me.

This afternoon I took several hours, put my camera on the tripod and shut off the automatic settings. I was frustrated….almost threw the camera in the lake…

but persevered.

Something clicked.

I got it.

Sorta….but it’s a step forward….

I love a challenge!

Never stop learning.

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