A couple months ago I joined a website called stumbleupon. Some of you might know what I’m talking about, but for those who don’t, stumbleupon is website that takes you to different websites based on what your interests are. Two of my many interests are baking and photography. Through stumbleupon I have found many different blogs on these interests.
The first blog I want to talk about is the pastry affair. This blog has recipes for all kinds of baking. I love to bake! It’s my way to unwind at the end of a long day, but it dose get repetitive baking sweets all the time. The pastry affair offers more than just sweets to bake. One of my favorite recipes I found on this blog is Garden Tomato and Basil Tart. Its like a pizza pie but only with an actually pie crust. Another one of my favorites is the 3 Milk Coconut Cake. Being part Puerto Rican this recipe is not new to me; in Spanish it is called Torta de tres leche. The only difference between this cake and my family’s cake is the coconut. I love coconut, but the rest of my family hates it. When I found this recipe I decided to make it for myself, and let me tell you, this is the best cake you will ever eat! It is so moist and sweet, it is heaven in your mouth. The style of this blog is informative. The blogger will explain where they found the recipe or how the came up with the recipe. Then of course they give you the directions and ingredients to make the item. The blog also holds different pictures of the finished product, which makes you want it even more. I would definitely recommend this blog if you want to branch out with your baking. You will learn how to bake a lot more than just a box of brownies.
The second blog, I’ll be honest, I did not find through stumbleupon. This is the blog of the local photographer in my little town. I’ll live in a very small town, so that my high school is combined with to other towns. Combined the are called Tri-Town, (very creative name, I know!) Tri-Town is still smaller than most one-town schools. Even with the combination of these three towns, I still graduated with a class of 125. So it make since that we only need one photographer. Joseph’s Photography is a one man business that runs the year book pictures for each towns elementary school, as well as branching out with Senior Pictures for the high school and many weddings. I am photography major so I have seen many blogs with a lot of amazing photographs; I picked Joe’s blog to talk about however because of the home feeling it gives me, and that what Joe does is exactly what I want to do. I would take shooting portraits of landscapes any day. Don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy take photos of landscapes and do so often. But the reason I really got into photography was the feeling I got when I captured someone’s emotions so right that it makes the viewer actually feel what they where feeling. It doesn’t happen on the first shoot, but its such an indescribably incredible feeling that I would, (and have), spend hours in a studio snapping shoots of the same person with the hopes the just one of the photos does just that. Joe’s blog is made up of his favorite photos from each of the jobs he has done. There is a short description of what the job was, how it went, and what it was like for him. His blog isn’t updated often, but I do check every once and while for new photos. He is a great photographer and I could stair at his photographs for hours.
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