{"id":276,"date":"2020-06-04T11:23:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T11:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2026-02-17T11:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:03:16","slug":"2020-6-4-another-food-attempt-111719","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"Another food attempt – 11\/17\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I had been wanting to try more food photography. Which makes sense to me, I\u2019m narrowing down what I like to take a picture of. I like wildlife for a lot of reasons. It\u2019s a different world, it\u2019s freeing to not have this society of rules you have to adhere to. Animals don\u2019t keep a job they don\u2019t enjoy, if they need food they fucking go get it. And I like food for many reasons. But mostly because I like to eat it, too much usually. And that\u2019s why I\u2019ve been needing to lose some weight for the majority of my life.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had ups and downs in that regard as well. Sometimes I do things just to prove to myself I can. For about a month, maybe 6 weeks, I got real serious about eating and exercising. I worked out almost everyday doing body weight exercises. I went fully into a keto diet and cut out carbs and sugar. It was actually really good for me, I learned a lot in such a short time. And truly since that point it changed my eating habits entirely. I was already transitioning to eating more vegetables in place of like, yet another plate of pasta. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a slow process for me. I haven\u2019t put any kind of self discipline for food in my life. Besides the obvious as not using it for a coping mechanism or trying to restrain myself when eating around others. But it\u2019s very interesting to look back even just a year and see the difference. It also helps that I cut out meat entirely about 4 months ago. Don\u2019t even miss it, there\u2019s still plenty of great things to eat.<\/p>\n

So, food. I like it, and even in November of last year I was trying to avoid carb heavy foods. So I offered my youngest sibling free food that I would cook up, photograph and supply to them so it wouldn\u2019t go to waste. And because they\u2019re the youngest with the least experience working the minimum wage job I figured they would appreciate the most. Spoiler alert, they flaked and it all went into my freezer which I ate over a period of a month or two. <\/p>\n

But I got to take plenty of pictures as I was cooking all this up. It was cheap meals, as I didn\u2019t have tons of extra money to spend outside of my normal grocery budget. So pancakes, cheeseburgers and grilled cheese. Wanted to try and get that cheese stretch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Canon 7D Mark II w\/24-105mm – 1\/160 Sec – F7.1 – ISO 100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Canon 7D Mark II w\/24-105mm – 1\/160 Sec – F7.1 – ISO 100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Canon 7D Mark II w\/24-105mm – 1\/200 Sec – F7.1 – ISO 100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Canon 7D Mark II w\/24-105mm – 1\/200 Sec – F7.1 – ISO 100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Canon 7D Mark II w\/24-105mm – 1\/200 Sec – F7.1 – ISO 100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Canon 7D Mark II w\/24-105mm – 1\/200 Sec – F7.1 – ISO 100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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It went alright in the end, and was a pleasant way to spend the afternoon. I was combining two of my favorite things. Cooking and photography. Hard to go wrong when you enjoy both things. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had been wanting to try more food photography. Which makes sense to me, I\u2019m narrowing down what I like to take a picture of. I like wildlife for a lot of reasons. It\u2019s a different world, it\u2019s freeing to not have this society of rules you have to adhere to. Animals don\u2019t keep a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}