taste and texture: #1 Menu in Pink

March Challenge with All I love. Here's how to play.

Pink remains difficult. Visualization not always corresponds to reality. Raw beetroot dyes beautifully pink, cooked beetroot earthily red (I should have remembered this from the last try). Plus, there should be allowed a third picture  "my favourite" (I'm going to revise the rules...)  Looking forward to red!

Menu  

Persian Flavoured Rice

Radishes in Vinaigrette

Wild-berry Yoghurt

Champagne "Fragole e Violeta"

my favourite

taste and texture: the March challenge

Talking about photography lately, Nancy and I thought that it was high time for a new challenge. Something really interesting. And fun. A project. Actually something like the menu series inspired by Sophie Calle's Chromatic Diet  I shot in March 2012.       .......

Why not repeat the chromatic diet together?! It didn't even take a minute to get both of us enthusiastic about the idea.

Only, this time we fancied to play it as a game. And we'd love it, if you joined in, dear readers, bloggers and instagramers from all over the world. Each one of us would choose their own  ingredients, would prepare the menus in their own kitchen, shoot the pictures and share them afterwards.
Come on, it's so much fun and creativity !

Here's how to play 

1. Prepare each week two menus starting with pink (because I totally struggled with the pink during my last monochromatic experience)
     - week 1: pink and red
     - week 2: orange and yellow
     - week 3: green and brown
     - week 4: black and white
2. Publish two pictures ( a third picture "my favourite" is optional)
Picture 1 introduces the colour (totally open, let your creativity run wild, don't feel restricted at all)
Picture 2 is the monochromatic menu ( now feel restricted, but soooo puristic and sophisticated)
     - the menu consists in a main course, a dessert and a beverage
     - shoot on white
     - use white tableware
     - no cutlery or napkins
     - no props
     - use a glass for the beverage
3.  from a culinary point of view your menu should be edible enjoyable
4.  though: extravaganzas are always welcome!
5.  You may skip a colour or join in only for the colour you like
6.  Hashtag your pictures #monochromaticmenu and share them on tumblr or instagram, share them in your blog and link back to us, or send us an email.

Can't wait to start!
xoxo  B. and N.

#photo a day July - here's the new challenge list!

If you love photography you really should join in Fatmumslim's challenge for a month. It's  so much fun!

And voilà  the "June harvest" out of my camera:

from left to right: drink-at six o'clock- on your plate- where you shop- hat- out and about-
yellow- sign-from a low angle- time- in your bag-best bit of your weekend-
soft -art- empty- fave photo you've ever taken- movement- from a high angle-
on your mind- bathroom- close up- morning- cute- door

By now I decided to post a mixture of old and new pictures taken at home and during my trips abroad.  However, it must be an extra challenge to snap the pictures the exact day the prompt is given .
Hmmm, yet I'm not sure if this meant  more or less fun for me, if  quality eventually improved, if creativity  got an extra boost....

last series from the #photoadayApril challenge

Pictures 21 to 30:

Day 29: circle
bull's eye into a kitchen

Day 26: black and white
my secret passion is to photograph people and to capture their beauty

Day 21: bottle
to drink plenty of still water is definitely a must

Day 27: somewhere you went
to an exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden

Day 22: the last thing you bought
a pair of forest inspired ballet flats

Day 22: vegetable
chard stems, steamed and sprinkled with vinaigrette...

Day 23: something you are grateful for
right in the moment I needed  a blind for my kitchen window  I got the most beautiful  I ever imagined

Day 24: looking down
 on Frankfurt

Day 28: 1pm
my lunch on  April 28,1pm

Day 30: something that makes you sad
in memory of my beloved father

#photoadayApril 15 to 20

Fatmumslim's photoaday prompts continue to inspire me  - whether I have to dig through my photo archives or come up with a brand new idea, I always enjoy the visual challenge.

in random order:
15. sunset close to my home
16. wisteria flower
17. something you don't like (haha, guess which one)
18. beautiful Hanna's hair 
19. the vibrant orange of a ripe cantaloupe
20. something you drew while thirsty

#photoadayApril 7 to 13

7. shadow on wet sand
8. inside your wallet: Venetian madonna patronizing all the lovers
9. younger you: sweet little me!

10. cold: frozen landscape on our way to Dresden airport some winters ago.
11. where I ate breakfast: I especially loved breakfast in the Robertson Small Hotel, South Africa, cosy but open, light and modern, fantastic food
12. very, very old stairs in  a Cretan palace
13. something you found in the garden: this beautiful beetle


I need so much that spring finally springs. I need warm temperatures and sun and more amazing beetles and flowers and bare feet in ballet flats...  have a lovely sunny weekend!

Easter weekend and time for the next series of @fatmumslims challenge photos

 If you want to know more about the photo-a-day challenge you find all details here.

2.colour

Spontaneous gathering of bright colours in my kitchen sink


3.mail

My mailbox, which on my flickr site has had the honour to be invited to www.rustymailbox.blogspot.com.
Thank you, rustymailbox guy, but again: this mailbox is NOT rusty! It's just painted in a rusty shade of brown. Any suggestions for a more attractive colour?


4.someone who makes you happy

My beautiful children full of life, health and inspiration. 

5.tiny

For me it's the tiniest High Heel ever - a small piece of sliced cabbage fallen down to the floor

 6.lunch

Delicious Pappa di Pomodoro lunch, which I had together with my daughter in a small  Florentine restaurant. Vik, I'm comiiiing!!