When I was 10 years old, my dad gave me a Beirette – a camera with a Zeiss lens, but no automatics at all. This is where my love for photography started. Some years after that, I had a Pentax ME Super from 1976 with some different lenses. It broke 2 years ago and I decided to switch from film to digital photography.
Now I have a digital SLR camera (Pentax K10D Grand Prix edition with Tamron 18-250mmm lens and a vintage 50mm lens), I recently discovered photoshop, and like experimenting with it…
Around the same time, I started to cook. My parents both worked all day and my gran's Alzheimer's disease started to get noticed as she cooked rice and potatoes for the same meal - and nothing else to go with it. So at first, I started with reheating food my mom prepared in the evening, but soon I started to create own meals and cakes.
Plus, I was always interested in the "why", that is the reason I read Hervè This's book and really enjoy watching Alton Brown's TV show "Good Eats". I try to give you some of those insights without getting too technical.
You won't find many (or any) recipes with fish or fruit. No fish because I don't like eating anything that comes from the ocean (except sea salt and maybe some tuna). And not many fruit because I have a fructose and sorbitol malabsorption. It's not extreme - I still can eat regular sugar, but nearly all fruit are out except citrus, banana and papaya.
In daily life, I earn my money as international secretary and I like my cats, cooking, going to the movies, and surfing.
“Life is short—wear tropical shirts.”
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or e-mail me: lensandlentils [at] gmx [dot] net.
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