by Mike on May 20, 2008

Mmm Cake!

Inspired by seasonal, local ingredients we made a Chocolate Beet Cake. Now, just because it has beets in it doesn’t mean it tastes like beets. The beets add body and depth to the batter. Made with dark chocolate, the cake is not too sweet, and is great with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

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Betty & Mark Wedding: Teaser Photo

by Mike on May 4, 2008

The Bride

The Bride: Betty [my sister-in-law]

I took 354 digital photos, about 15 Polaroids, 10 toy camera black and white photos, and 48 regular color film photos!! So, this is just a small sampling! I’ll upload more as I review/edit/develop/scan them. I was the backup/secondary photographer. The official photographer wasn’t able to be there for the whole thing. Hopefully I got a good mix and BJ & Mark are happy with what I did. I kept choking myself; with three cameras wrapped around my neck at one time, lol. It was more fun that I thought.

I was mostly worried about my battery life; but in fact my main concern was memory/film. I ran out of space on my memory card & was down to half a roll of color film during the reception (after the other photographer had left). I still had the speeches, the father daughter dance, and the cake cutting among other things. I kept having to frantically review the photos and my camera and delete the ones that I knew weren’t worth saving. So I probably deleted about 50 photos that were too blurry, had the wrong exposure or setting, or were of something stupid like my foot. HA!

I’ll post more soon. You can view the whole set here as I upload them. There are only about 6 in there now.