The scanned paper off a fence post.

The photoshopped file

Scanned Paper off 2nd Fence Post.

The photoshopped file.

On a Mailbox. We had a snowpile in front of it for quite a few weeks.

I believe the snowplow guy hit the mailbox…however it did make it interesting!

The photoshopped file.

Scanned Backyard Tree.

Photoshopped File.

On the bottom of a paintcan. Off of a tree.

Photoshopped file.

1. The day I get to take my solargraph cameras down

2. Processing the images from my camera

Then it got me thinking:

3. My new camera I got last semester that I wasn’t really able to use due to not having a good lens.

4. Getting my 2 new beauties

5. Making me feel guilty for not shooting with them yet.

Then it made me want to:

6. Schedule a photo shoot

7. Which made me wish I was home to get some real good looking people from Perryville to take photos of.

8. Which made me think of almost exactly 2 months til I graduate from College.

WHICH I am super excited for and am now drinking Tang cause Milk doesn’t sound good right now.

Here are a few photos from others who have done this. Some are 2 month exposures and some are a year:

Enjoy!

Anyway, how this works is making a pinhole camera out of just about anything as long as it doesn’t let the sun in or weather. The picture is taken with a pinhole camera , with no lens and just a photographic paper. It is left facing the sun for few months and let the sun expose the photographic paper – and the result is this stunning image . Not to difficult just have to be lucky enough to put the pinhole in the right spot of the sun. Here is one of my pinhole cameras that I have put up in my backyard in Warrensburg. I will let you know the final outcome in about 3 months

The Look from the Pinhole camera

I had the wonderful honor of attending the MOPPA confrence for practically FREE What can be any better!

I met some great people along with alum from UCM.

Sunday the 19th I listened to Sara Kauss on Weddings sponsored by Miller’s Lab.

She gave a lot of information about building a brand. Hopefully you will see some of those examples in my up and coming stuff. Along with that she gave some good organization skills that we as photographers struggle with on a daily basis.

Brianna Graham was the second speaker. She shoots seniors. Super fun and crazy! I loved everything she had to say and def. one of my new inspirations! Thanks Brianna!

Monday morning I woke up super early to be at the speaker Gene Ho’s presentation. I am super glad I did too, he gave so much insight to what you need to marketing including being like Santa Claus and the Ice Cream Man

Then came the REALLY fun part. Something that never happens to me – happened to me today! I won a prize YAY!

I won an 8 card template from Check Studio Art + Design. I am going to have so much fun with these templates in the next couple months because they are for none other than CHRISTMAS! Only 3 months away!

Listening to Scott and Adina Hayne was also very inspiring about wanting to start up my own business! I am so happy about what is in store for me as an individual and Yellow Dot Photography. SOOOO…Stay in touch and we will see what happens together!

Here are my photo’s and a story to go with them. [i have been wanting to do something like this for a really long time and today i did it...by myself!]

What kind of story would this be if I didn’t start out with a teaser??? ehhh…

and then of course you need a recipe…

and so it begins…

flour…

what is baking with out a little something to drink…ice cold country time lemonade…mmmmmmmmm…

only 3 ingredients into it and already working hard…

wouldn’t be delicious without some butter…

some goodness… [only about the 2nd time i have ever kept the yolk...not to hard though]

look at all that chocolate in one place!!!!

1/4 cup of cookie dough…that’s a LOT!!! a LOT of yummy-ness!

this reminded me of LOVER, lover, lover you don’t treat me no good no more…i love that song! and my boyfriend <3

so i wanted more cookies than just the BIG ones so I divided the 1/4 cup into 2 and then those pieces into 2 and i got little cookies…

the whole gang of cookies minus one cause…

a monster ate it…

ME!!!

i only got this ice cream cause its the most amazing ice cream ever and it is both vanilla and chocolate, but it is very melty…so we will have a messy sandwich! YAY!

the making of the ice cream cookie…

the finished product…

Yum!!!

Thick and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Makes about 18 large cookies

Ingredients:
2 cups plus 2 tablespoons (10 5/8 ounces) unbleached all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, melted and cooled until just warm
1 cup packed (7 ounces) light or dark brown sugar
1/2 cup (3 1/2 ounces) granulated sugar
1 large egg, plus 1 large egg yolk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 – 1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips or bittersweet chunks

Directions:
1) Adjust the oven racks to the upper- and lower-middle positions and heat the oven to 325 degrees F. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper or spray them with nonstick cooking spray.

2) Whisk the flour, baking soda, and salt together in a medium bowl; set aside.

3) Either by hand or with an electric mixer, mix the butter and sugars until thoroughly blended. Beat in the egg, yolk, and vanilla until combined. Add the dry ingredients and beat at a low speed just until combined. Stir in the chips to taste.

4) Roll a scant 1/4 cup of the dough into a ball. Hold the dough ball with the fingertips of both hands and pull into 2 equal halves. Rotate the halves 90 degrees and, with jagged surfaces facing up, join the halves together at the base, again forming a single ball, being careful not to smooth the dough’s uneven surface. Place the formed dough balls on the prepared baking sheets, jagged surface up, spacing them 2 1/2 inches apart.

5) Bake until the cookies are light golden brown, the outer edges start to harden, and the centers are still soft and puffy, 15 to 18 minutes, rotating the baking sheets from to back and top to bottom halfway through the baking time. Cool the cookies on the sheets. Remove the cooled cookies from the baking sheets with a wide metal spatula.

Chocolate Chip Cookies with Coconut and Toasted Almonds
Follow the recipe for Thick and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies, adding 1 1/2 cups sweetened flaked coconut and 1 cup toasted sliced almonds along with the chips.

Black and White Chocolate Chip Cookies with Pecans
Follow the recipe for Thick and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies, substituting 1/2 cup white chocolate chips for 1/2 cup of the semisweet chips. Add 1 cup chopped pecans with the chips.

In this recipe I added Toll House Chunks, Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips AND white chocolate chips.

Thanks for taking the time to look…if you use this recipe I hope it is as tasty as mine were!!! it is for sure a keeper!!!!

ENJOY!