As I cracked eggs into the skillet, I had one leftover from a carton from the store, and three that I picked up from a local farm. My sister-in-law's mother raises chickens for eggs and meat on a few acres about 30 minutes from us. (The woman is a dynamo who also works full time, quilts AMAZING pieces and does about three hundred other projects all at once that leave the rest of us feeling like slackers!) Anyway - with SIL back in this neck of the woods, it's much easier to pick up eggs from her mom.
People that raise chickens know, there's SUCH a difference between a store-bought egg and an egg from free-range, well-fed chickens.
So, for this week's "Store", a thought on how and where we get our food, as you can see the health of the farm-fresh eggs shining in their orange-yellow yolks, compared to the egg from our local store.
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| Playing with the lower end of my f-stops for increased detail - f 3.6, ISO 125 |
I'll let you guess which egg is from the store. *Hint: it's not the lighting that's making one of them a different color!*
I'm pretty pleased with the clarity of this shot before it was time to flip the eggs. I can tell I'm getting *slowly* more knowledgeable about how to set my camera to get what I want out of it.....only a couple more years of these posts and I should be able to get the hang of it!
Stop by Cari's place for more Theme Thursday: Store
Love it! The taste doesn't compare between store bought and free range chickens does it? Can you tell me what camera body/ lens you have?
ReplyDeleteI never knew eggs could be so tasty until I had a farm fresh one! I use a Kodak Easyshare Max Z990 - not a detachable body/lens....that shall be next. I think perhaps I can really only justify the $600 camera I'm looking at when I master this one :)
DeleteI've never had a farm fresh egg, but they sure do look better!!
ReplyDeleteI think if you looked a little, you could probably find a chicken farmer willing to let you try some. They're so good - and the choline, omega 3's, vitamins and minerals are generally higher quality in a farm fresh egg. They're better for you and sometimes, you can find a farmer who sells them comparable to the regular store eggs. Mine run $2/dozen and store-brand eggs run about $1.80. That 20 cents/dozen is nothing compared to the quality.
DeleteLove the detail. We're having eggs for dinner tonight! Can't wait. And I totally get what you mean, this time next year I'll have the camera figured out. Then on to learning about lights and angles!
ReplyDeleteThere's a corner of my basement that I look at every time I go down to do laundry that I think I could take all my kiddos portraits in if I could just figure out my camera and lighting - well, that and getting the littles to sit still! Gotta have goals!
DeleteGreat job, and so fun to learn new things.
ReplyDeleteThat's what keeps our brains and hearts young, I think :)
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