May 2015 - Page 8 of 10 - Gazing and Grazing

Pic of the Day – Burmese Girl

May 19th, 2015

I took this picture back in December 2000 using Fujifilm Velvia 50 positive film (slide) on either a Yashica or Contax body with a Carl Zeiss lens. Those were the days! Both Yashica and Contax stopped making cameras in 2005 but the equipment I have still takes really good pics although I’m really lazy to take them out these days. Anyway, she was a girl in the market in Yangon and it was just fortuitous that her eyes happened to be in the stream of light coming through the awnings. It was also lucky that for once I had my settings right as she was just there for a fleeting moment.

Kyoto’s Mamezen – This Ramen is Soy Good!

May 19th, 2015

I was fooled. I ordered what I thought was a minced pork ramen at Mamezen and found out even the “meat” was made of soy. This vegetarian ramen restaurant makes its noodles from soy, its broth from soy milk and of course, as it turns out, its garnishing from soy and other vegetables. Taste-wise, I don’t think you’d realize that the meal was soy based other than from the milky appearance of the soup. My husband, a major carnivore, and I were both amazed by the richness of the broth....

Yosemite – Photos taken October 2014

May 19th, 2015

New York City – Five Fave (& Free) Places to Take a Pause

May 18th, 2015

I love New York for its energy; I can’t think of another place that is so emblematic of humanity. But sometimes, I like to remove myself from that frenzy and just observe and really savour the life of the city. The following are my five favourite spots to do just this (and they’re almost all free!).

Brooklyn Bridge - walk from the Brooklyn end into Manhattan. I think it’s a really great way to spend an hour - the views from the bridge are spectacular as is peering at...

Pic of the Day – Yosemite Deer

May 18th, 2015

I took this photo just around sunrise in Yosemite. There was a herd of deer by the road as we were driving by so we stopped and I got out of the car. They were quite oblivious of my presence (along with the other cars driving by) so I had to make a slight noise before the stag looked up. Shot on a Nikon D800 at 200mm zoom, manual setting of ISO2500, F4, 1/100.