Cropping, or Crop Suey, refers to the removal of the outer parts of an image to improve framing, accentuate subject matter or change the aspect ratio of the image. Depending on…
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The “crust” for this Sweet Potato Turkey Pie is easily made with mashed sweet potatoes and you don’t have to cook them! Just start with canned sweet potatoes and beat…
This is a particularly awful dish from our International Collection of Awful Food. A steamed, yes steamed, omelette that doesn’t exactly look like the omelettes we are accustomed to seeing.…
Hey! Why not try some of this Singapore Shrimp with steamed rice, bananas and parsley? It’s delicious! Don’t forget the curry sauce. Bon appétit!
Liver a la Gourmet with onion-mashed potatoes, French peas, jellied-lime cucumber salad and a jelly roll. This is what you’ve been waiting for! Bon appétit!
The f-number (sometimes called f-stop) of an optical system expresses the diameter of the entrance pupil in terms of the focal length of the lens; in simpler terms, the f-number…
Merry Kodachrome Christmas! It’s a bright shiny day! And you’ve got all day to play! Thank you Kodachrome … Thanks for visiting!
Here’s a festive holiday dessert just made to please all your family and friends! It’s not only holiday pudding but it’s steamed holiday pudding. The problem is, it suspiciously looks…
Subject matter for photographs can be found just about anywhere – sometimes right at your own feet. Although this image could be termed as a formal composition, the purpose of this…
The most wonderful time of the year is also the time for what is arguably the most awful food of the year – the fruit cake. Tonight Show host Johnny…
The view camera is a type of camera first developed in the era of the daguerreotype (1840s-’50s) and still in use today, though with many refinements. It comprises a flexible…
A tropical hamburger that doesn’t look quite like a hamburger. But hey, it’s tropical, which means it’s exotic right? Serve with some fresh vegetable sticks and pickles. Mmmm mmmm good!…
Great ways with ground meat! Who doesn’t love to find a piece of beautiful and tasty cauliflower in the center of their meatloaf? This savory meatloaf is shaped around a whole…
In my day, it was tetherball. Our common playground game, that is. So this picture came about one day on a photo walk and I had to find out what…
Coyote ugly means coyote dead. This image originates in an area of North Central Oklahoma that is known as Red Dirt Country and was the original land opened for settlement…
An epiphany is an experience of sudden and striking realization. Generally the term is used to describe scientific breakthrough, religious, philosophical or artistic discoveries, but it can apply in any situation in…
A graphoscope was a 19th century device used in parlors in order to enhance the viewing of photographs and text. These novelty items consisted of a single magnifying glass, often in a…
96 seasons have happened since November 1, 1992 …. The last season has concluded … October 31, 2016.
From California, of course … a jello ring full of fruits and nuts then crowned by a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Enjoy, it’s from California! Bon appétit!
This is an image of a tornado shelter in North Central Oklahoma, or “Red Dirt Country.” Specifically, Logan County near Mulhall. This area is also famously known as “tornado alley.”…
A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter with typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (grapes) or man-made objects (straw hat). Sometimes you…
