final noms- Food Photography

A cold winter's eve. Watching something on Netflix.

Preparations for all the baking that we do in winter. Exciting stuff.

Successfully made meringues.

After Argo. Lunch at Le Pain Quotidien. In addition to the rolls, I consumed some smoked salmon and nutella-esque spread.

Le jams of Le Pain.

One morning I decided to make myself a fancy American breakfast.

Finished product! The corn tasted bad, but the rest of the meal was pretty American and good. And salty.

I got suprised with a huge sticky bun from an organic bakery. IT WAS SO GOOD.

We made pecan bars, and they were pretty spectacular. In the basement fridge there are still a few bars left, actually.

This is the final post of my iPhone pictures! Bon appetite!

sweets and falafel- Food Photography

Whole Foods, picking up lunch.

Mmmmmm. So in Pittsburgh there's a bakery that makes the most delicious cinnamon bread in the universe.  (You can actually see the brown sugary cinnamon oozing out for the bread!) When I'm visiting family there, I have this usually every morning.

Macaroons at a cute café. Pittsburgh.

This is a bar of chocolate purchased at Godiva's Black Friday sale. And this picture was taken in the car coming home from Pittsburgh. There was snow!

As part of the required culture lessons in French 3, my teacher decided to have us bake crepes.

Christmas cookies!

Chocolate muffins made with cake mix and a can of pumpkin.

One morning I woke up to a plate of Parisian pastries laying on the kitchen counter. The pastries in the middle were the best--apple tarts.

carbs, candy, and protein OH MY- Food Photography

Food Photography time. I have three posts worth of reluctant carbs, candy, and protein for my dear readers. 

Whenever my parents pick up a baguette, I turn it into garlic bread. Salty, chewy, AND crunchy!

I followed a recipe for one chocolate chip cookie, and ended up with that huge cookie pie, featuring Reese's Pieces.

The first time I bought lunch at school--by myself! I got this delicious sandwich at the grocery store. Then I went to eat it outside. I miss October just a tad bit.

<3 this picture, mainly due to its contents.

Cupcakes! If you're curious, the occasion was a French party before winter break. Although you never need an occasion to make cupcakes. Just make 'em.

Fro-yo at the mall.

This is one of my FAVORITE dishes at a local high-end Asian restaurant. It's Tokyo dashi broth with egg noodles and beef. My guilty pleasure food is 100% good Asian dishes.

Altoids; a staple in my room and in my mouth.

Pretty Things, part 2

Once you get past the factories outside Philly, you get to the city. This day was snowy, and as I took this photo from the car window, my flash went off. I thought the flash would have ruined the photo, but it actually made the snowflakes look like little sparkles in the city. Pretty pretty, if I don't say so myself.

This is when we went to see Argo in a little theater downtown. The picture above is of some shops just across the street from the theater. For a visualization of inside the movie theater, think of the Catacombs in Paris with carpeting and no skeletons.

I like when the sky looks big and blue. That's the chimney of my next-door neighbor.

On the day before Obama's second Inauguration, we went downtown to see everything being set up.

Yep, that's the Mall.

Frontyard is nice.

All through winter we haven't gotten much accumulation of snow, so when it snows as little as it did in the image above, I just have to rush to my phone and snap a picture.

Phone Photography- Pretty Things, part 1

Let's start from the beginning. One day, my iPhone notified me that I had used up almost all of my storage. So in order to get more storage for the future, I deleted the 400+ pictures from my phone and transferred them on to my laptop. As I was going through the photos, I thought this would make a cool series on my blog. Of course, a lot of these images are already also posted on my Instagram, but why not add a bit of detail and let YOU see them?! There will be two parts to my 'pretty things' series, and multiple more parts to my, at the moment untitled 'food' series. 

PS: I have an iPhone 5 (with an 8mp camera and flash capability). 

Ahhhh. The first full day of having my new phone, I took a lens flare picture in my hometown. I remember being surprised that the infamous purple hue wasn't showing up.

The beginning of any new season is exciting. Especially autumn!

A Pittsburgh sunset from my Nana's apartment. This has been my phone's screensaver for quite some time. IT'S SO PRETTY.

This is actually the tunnel featured in the film Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Morning view. This is where the sunset was two pictures ago.

On a drive to Philadelphia to visit my Uncle, we always pass these huge factories just before the city. The amount of visible pollution is insane. I call this 'Pollution City'.

I want to say this was right before Hurricane Sandy.....maybe not. Either way, the bamboo was swaying quite ferociously. 

This was at my sisters soccer game in November. I love taking pictures in this style. Look at the supa-cool sky. Look at it!

the MOST comfortable

So it's Saturday evening. 16 February 2013. 11 pm.

My parents are having a huge party downstairs, which I'm way too afraid to go to. (The only reason I'd go down anyway is to get dessert).

My current set-up:




















I think I'm going to go and watch something on Netflix now. BYE.

"A Cat in Paris" - Thoughts

I just finished watching the animated film A Cat in Paris, and it was amazing.

The visuals were stunning......so many shots of Paris! Every time the cat made the journey from his two 'homes', I got goosebumps due to the nature of his route. With or without the assistance of the plot, this cinematography in this film is definitely a love letter to Paris.

And the plot itself was such a classic adventure. It reminds me of the more conventional/realistic/artsy Adventures of TinTin.

Character development was ACE. With the exception of the super bad guy, my opinions of each character changed throughout the sixty minute extravaganza.

Out of ten stars, I'd give it eleven.

If it wasn't clear: THIS FILM IS ANIMATED.