Starving Artistry

So Close…

// December 23rd, 2009 // Photo

… to Christmas! Despite the snow on the ground, it doesn’t really feel like it! I guess that’s because for the last, oh… 8 years or so I’ve always had to travel somewhere to go visit my family. Since we’re doing it at home this year, it kinda feels like your typical day and whatnot.

Anyway, this afternoon I helped my mom make some Christmas sugar cookies. It comes from a family recipie, and I have to be honest, I’ve never actually had Christmas cookies that were quite this good. We rolled the dough today in preparation of making the cookies tomorrow.

This is a shot of the recipie as my mom had it on the counter. Then my fingers got all dirty and I had to stop taking pictures.

Harry was watching attentively as we worked, hoping to eat some buttery cookie dough I’m sure (4 sticks of butter! Ugh!)

Anyway, after that was all done, we hit the grocery store, but not before I did some quick research on HDR photography. So as soon as I got home, I wanted to try it out. Here are a couple of shots… I think it’d work better outside with better light and stuff, but you can kind of see that hyper-realistic look.

Shot of my living room from where I was sitting and conducting my research.

My mom workin.

Anyway, the whole family’s here now, so I suppose I should go spend QT with them. Merry Christmas…!