of course, when you usually see food photography, it is something that was prepared to be photographed. these, i got at the store. and i couldn't find cupcake cups big enough to replace these "eyesore" ones. but ah well - i'm pretty happy considering the equipment i had to work with: my camera, these slightly beat-up cupcakes, and a big piece of white paper the art director was going to throw out.
i could probably improve it a bit with photoshop, if i had it (ahem), but i think this will work just fine for what we need to use it for. :)
tonight, i'm going to celebrate by... eating a cupcake!
(this is probably a good time to 'fess up that i have completely abandoned my workout plan for the past couple of weeks. first, the weather was bad, then the pms struck, then i got ultra busy. and now i have no excuse. so back to it this week! weather, please shape up!)
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
