De-cluttering has become an obsession, as I go through bouts of determination to sift through our old possessions, as well as those of my grandmother, mother, and our children. We have this vision of a sleek, uncluttered, low maintenance smaller house in our future- and we know that we’ll never be able to even think of downsizing until we get rid of and organize the contents of our closets, cupboards, and garage. I have been working on this in fits and spurts since my mother died fifteen years ago- and it seems never-ending.
Today I went through old record albums, each one with so many memories. I still have about a hundred to go through (trying to black out my name and seeing if the right record is in the right album cover). I have no idea yet what I will do with them! I thought of photographing them for today, but decided to go with the theme from Saturday- RECIPE.
This recipe box is where I keep recipes from my early marriage years- all hand-written and many in the handwriting of the person who gave it me the recipe. My current recipes are in binders- and often printed out from the internet- not nearly as personal.
I used Aperture Priority with Easy Exposure Compensation and AUTO ISO. Because I focused on the recipe cards, I had to lower exposure by 1 stop (so easy since I changed my settings to Easy Exposure Compensation). It felt like shooting in AUTO- kind of like cheating!
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Love the composition and the exposure is great. I will be trying those settings. The recipe cards looked familiar so I looked in my ratty old recipe box and found “Melinda’s Apple Cake” written in your hand on one of those old stove recipe cards. You’re right. What a nice blast from the past.
MEMORIES ……………………nice…..!