Cheesecake and Chicken Salad on a Friday

Dominique Parenting and Kids, Thoughts Food Trip Friday

Cheesecake from Coffee Bean

Last week I managed to play with my macro lens while I was out with my friend for lunch. I’ve invested in the lens as I’m learning how to take better food photography and portraits of the kids. Having visually appealing photos do make one’s blog post stand out and I do hope that my food captures will be mouthwatering for my readers.

The cheesecake tasted heavenly as it had two flavours, raspberry and New York Cheese. I also loved the white chocolate shavings that were on top of the slice.

Chicken Salad

Here is a salad that I had last week. Pan fried chicken with salad is a one dish meal that I have for lunch. I’ve been trying to eat more healthy during the weekends and have started to incorporate salads and smaller meal portions into my daily servings.

What have you been eating lately?

PhotoStory Friday

March 7, 2013

Writer’s Workshop: Purchased for $500

Dominique Parenting and Kids, Thoughts mama kat's writers workshop, talkative thursday

My New Macro Lens

If you were given $500 for only one purchase how would you spend it ? I recently had the chance to personally experience this kind of buying experience when I went on a shopping spree.

I purchased an item which I had be deliberating on for a really long time. Something that I had my eye on but wasn’t sure if I could afford it back then.
Tamron AF 90mm f/2.8 Di SP AF/MF 1:1 Macro Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras for $500(SG$ 520) is what I decided on in the end. I had been looking through the various photography sites and magazines reading up the reviews on both Tamron and Canon lenses. The fixed focal lens from Canon (Marco 100) has discontinued support so the Tamron lens was a better buy and really value for money.

I’ve always loved taking photos of flowers and doing macro shots. With a macro lens it would certainly help me take better pictures and improve on my photography skills.