[Matt]

The purpose of these challenges are to encourage us to get out and get the best shot of an assigned subject. It's a great way to enhance your photography skills.
Even if you think you take crappy pictures, please join in. Those of you just reading the forum and not posting, this is your chance to join in and show off.

This month's challenge: Home Cooking

Only rules:
It has to be taken by you.
It has to be taken in Upstate NY

A winner will be selected based on the following criteria:

• subject
• creativity
• use of color (or lack thereof)
• uniqueness

The January winner will get a compact LED flashlight. It's a compact metal light with a really bright light.

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[HaloGirl]

I can't believe you're posting a photo challenge at 2 in the morning on New Year's Day!

... Yes, I know I'm reading it just a few minutes after you posted it, and I'm responding. But this is the first chance I've had to be online since Tuesday.

[Bill_K]

Soon to be an omelette.

[Brenda]

I can't believe you're posting a photo challenge at 2 in the morning on New Year's Day!

Matt doesn't sleep much. I pick up the slack. We were in bed by 10:00 last night.

[Kelly]

Matt doesn't sleep much. We were in bed by 10:00 last night.

Do you want to consider rewording that?

[Bill_K]

[skiboarder72]

shana is gonna be pissed

[Mikell]

Home cooking is an easy one for me...I immediately thought of the big pots of homemade chicken soup that I make all winter long. It's the first thing my kids ask me to make when they come to visit. The photo shows the basic ingredients just as they begin to come to a boil...whole chicken, vegetables and herbs. It looks so colorful, I just had to take a picture! Thanks for having a challenge I could enter it in!

[Matt]

an older one

homemade pulled pork

[Kelly]

Boy oh boy..... wonderful photos so far! I can see it now - February Photo Challenge - "Our ever expanding waistlines"!

So Mikell----I'm trying to visualize you taking that photo.....did you stand up on a chair?

[Mikell]

Kelly...

The photo was taken last winter...and I can't remember if I stood on a stool or if I just held the camera right above the pot...I think the latter...the stove isn't so high....but it does look like I was considerably higher for the shot!

[Mikell]

I'm not sure how appetizing these photos are but I have been experimenting with the digital macro on my camera (everything is new to me!) ...and these are some of the results. They ARE home cooking...even if they look like something you'd find on a microscope slide! They just looked more interesting this way.

My traditional turkey stuffing...a bread stuffing with cashews, black & green olives, pimentos, raisins...and other "stuff"!



Fresh from the oven...a slice of my chocolate chip banana nut bread.

[Matt]

Cashews in a stuffing?...sounds delicious!

[backpacker]

I’m not sure how many people know what Chicken Riggies are. They were started here in Utica in fact they have a contest once a year for the best riggies.

chicken riggies

My wife got a recipe and we have them about once a week now.

[Brenda]

I do know what they are, thanks to Channel 9! I'd love to have the recipe!