Lefroy Visits = FOOD

On a weekend trip a few weeks back we went to a small-town garage-sale / street festival (Cookstown Wing Ding). As always, whenever there is samples available - we are both advocates for taking part. There was a meat-booth (yep - it's as great as it sounds) set up with quite a few samples so with Katriina's sister and brother-in-law we went to town. There are a couple rules to sampling though... 1) You can't be hungry 2) You're not supposed to get sucked in.

But.. but... MEAT samples. 

Yeah. We broke rule #2. Homemade Mennonite summer sausage. How can you say no? We ended up splitting a ... (tube? roll? stick?)... with Elisha and Nate and off we went happy.

It was just so authentic / pretty in it's cloth wrapping, and my mom had such a nice cutting board so I decided to try out some food photography. Food photography isn't really something we do, but boy, I (Katriina) would LOVE to be good at it. I drool at the photos in my Bon Appétit magazine. Maybe on day. For now, you can join us in drooling at the sausage/salami.

Here's a couple other food related photos from the weekend. For those of you who don't know - my mother is a genius. With food that is. And being amazingly crafty/frugal. That tablecloth? Oh - sorry I mean shower curtain (yup!) - As-Is section of Ikea. She's an inspiration to me.

Also, yes - that is filet mignon, garlic-butter shrimp, bacon wrapped scallops, stuffed portobello mushrooms, plus corn + baked potatoes (with all the fixings)..... nom nom nom. I hope I didn't just make you drool over your keyboard. Hope you enjoy the photos.

You've Got Mail!

If you haven't seen the cartoon floating around of mail vs. email, check it out now. I feel like it is very accurate. But today's mail was especially exciting. First, Jon's sister's wedding invitations came in the mail - almost a month till the day and we will be shooting her wedding.

Secondly, this beauty came! Our friend Lindsey contacted us earlier this spring about taking a few photos for their Save the Dates. They had a template all picked out, but wanted a couple nice, matching photos to go in it. The day ended up being a bit chilly and was raining, but they were troopers and didn't let the cold stop us from getting a bunch of great shots. What a treat seeing our photos printed out on a Save the Date. For more photos from this session, click here.

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Freelensing

No, this post is not talking about Jon's addiction to Kijiji deals. 

It's a technique that's being used amongst photographers that involves taking the lens off of the camera and hand holding it while shifting and tilting it (only a few millimeters!). This essentially makes the lens a hand held tilt-shift lens while also allowing for light leaks between the lens and camera body.

We met up with a good friend of ours who encouraged us to try it out, and so far it's been fun. It's not the easiest technique though and it takes some seriously steady-hand practice. The examples below don't have any light leaks - one step at a time here, folks. Can't wait to try this out more in the future.