Mistwalker
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Some of the shots from the Northern Ithilien / Henneth Annûn series will be centered around streams and waterfalls, but mostly they will be shot in a cave. So that has meant a lot of experimenting with shooting in dark rooms lit only by candle light using shutter priority. This was the first time I had cooked an entire meal in a cave-like setting by candle light since I was seventeen years old...some time back, and I had never photographed it before. Though I did not have a fire, just a hot plate to simulate the open fire cooking techniques. I still have to work on some aspects before I am ready for the final sequence of shots, but it was fun. If I were still feeding myself and several other hungry homeless people, there wouldn't have been so much of the collard green stems in the discard basket, but fortunately that was not the case. The final sequence will have the stone walls of the cave as a back drop rather than the plywood barrier I used to set my max depth of focus in these, but some of the shots turned out ok. I had spent the last few days playing "beat the candle" and was running out of candles, so you can see how the lighting changes from the first pics to the last ones, and it was New Years Eve, and nowhere to buy more. I'm looking forward to the next go at it on a normal day with other meats and produce to play with more colors. The browns tend to blend and get lost in low light, I think I will definitely use the red potatoes next time around 
Though it wouldn't have done them any harm, and Alayna would certainly have dug it as much as I would, I did not subject the family to cave dining We ate dinner at the dining room table and toasted the new year. These were just hurriedly taken camera pics. The meal was our traditional New Years Day meal of black eyed peas, seasoned collard greens, pork chops, fried potatoes, and corn bread
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Though it wouldn't have done them any harm, and Alayna would certainly have dug it as much as I would, I did not subject the family to cave dining
We ate dinner at the dining room table and toasted the new year. These were just hurriedly taken camera pics. The meal was our traditional New Years Day meal of black eyed peas, seasoned collard greens, pork chops, fried potatoes, and corn bread
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I may take you up on the offer of help at some point though
