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Healthy Eating – Food Photography

by Kay on January 28, 2013

This month’s challenge for The Inspired Plate was “healthy”. Okay, I can do healthy…sometimes. In an effort to bake lower carb or low glycemic index foods for my husband, I thought I’d experiment with Almond Thins. You see, I’m slightly addicted to Wheat Thins…and I wanted a healthier alternative that was lower carb and a lower glycemic index food. So off I went to experiment. This is what I came up with:

Almond Pecan Thins

They have a rustic, organic appeal, don’t they?

They are made with almond flour, ground pecans, and an egg white with a bit of kosher salt. So easy.

I usually try to find almonds on sale and grind my own flour.

You can also buy almond flour in bags–though it’s pricey.

I also added pecans to the crackers. Gave them a great flavor without having to add a lot of herbs or spices.

I just ground the pecans in my small food processor.

Here is how the dough turns out. I just plop in down on some parchment paper.

Here is my final healthy lunch. Almond pecan thins with cheese. Yummy. So much better than wheat thins. Such a great flavor.

ALMOND PECAN THINS

1/4 cup pecan pieces ground to a coarse meal

Almond flour–enough when added to the pecan meal you have 1 cup of flour

1 egg white

1/4 teaspoon kosher salt

Mix the ingredients together. Put the dough between two pieces of parchment paper and roll out very, very thin. Pull off the top piece of parchment and score the crackers. (next time I might stab them with a fork a few times in each cracker too). This will make about 3/4 of a cookie sheet of crackers. Place the bottom parchment and scored crackers on a cookie sheet. Bake at 325 for 10 to 15 minutes. You want them to be browned, but not over cooked.

Pull from oven and let cool slightly, then break them apart where you scored them.

Enjoy your low carb/low glycemic index load crackers.

You might wonder why I garnished this with a sprig of rosemary? That’s to remind me that next time I want to try and add some rosemary to these crackers. My motto is everything goes better with a hint of rosemary…

Hop on over to Sabrina Wong | Perth Food Photography and see what she came up with for Healthy for this month’s The Inspired Plate’s food photography challenge.

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Fine Art Friday-Birds in Snow

by Kay on January 25, 2013

This month for Fine Art Friday I want to showcase some of my birds in the snow photos. I love it when it snows and I can get photos of the birds out my office window as they gather at the bird feeder. Here are a couple of my favorites.

I have recently started sellling my Fine Art Photography online. If you click on the link

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, it will take you to the galleries of photos I’ve put up for sale. You can buy them as prints, on canvas, metal prints, acrylic prints, or greeting cards. Matting and framing is also available. Thanks for looking!

Hop on over to Leigh Ann Hines, Durham Fine Art Photography and see her Fine Art Photography for January.

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Some Favorite Images of 2012

by Kay on January 9, 2013

I like to look back through the images that I’ve taken during the year and revisited them. Here are a few of my favorites from 2012:

I know, you just want to dive in and eat those onion rings, don’t you?

Love this sweet little black capped chickadee posing for me.

Murphy, my adorable, impossible, impish cavalier king charles puppy. Love him.

Dogwood blossoms on the tree out my bedroom window. Taken with my lensbaby lens. I’ve been using it quite often this year.

Silly photo to like, such a simple shot…but I love it. Possibly because I’m craving some good fresh peaches for a nice peach pie and can’t find any right now.
peaches for frozen yogurt

I have so enjoyed improving my food photography and learning so much with my other food photography friends in The Inspired Plate. Our monthly challenges have been so fun, and well, challenging… I’ve learned a lot this year and can’t wait to learn more in 2013. I plan on expanding my food photography portfolio this year.

I also really enjoyed the monthly Fine Art Friday group of photographers from 4 the Love of Focus. There have been some breathtaking photos shared in the Fine Art Friday group, and I plan on participating again in 2013.

I’ve loved this expansion of my photography past just portrait photography this year. While I do love capturing people, both lifestyle and a more glamour style, I find myself more and more drawn to the food photography and fine art side of photography.

I look forward to seeing what 2013 has in store for me!

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