Wednesday, November 24, 2010

What happens when Thais decides to play photographer

Carly had her last baby at the end of October. A girl. I've been excited about this baby since I found out she was pregnant. She's sweet, and I love my friend. I begged Carly to let me take pictures of the little one. She, being the good friend she is, let me practice.








So here's what we learned:
I need to get better at editing, but for that I need photoshop... picasa is just not cutting it anymore
I really need to figure out my camera focus system better and pay attention to what it's focusing on!
I need to remember that too low of an aperture will blur the second eye
What appears to be pretty and focused on my camera screen doesn't always translate into that on my computer screen

Things I'm wondering:
Why aren't things sharp!?
How do you edit to make the baby's skin flawless?
Who wants to buy me a macbook pro and photoshop?

Friday, November 12, 2010

Dallas Museum of Art

As part of our get to know DFW goal (which we've been pretty bad about) we went to the Dallas Museum of Art with TJ and Sunitha back in August.

We first had lunch at the historic El Fenix in downtown.









I hate to say this, but after Paris and NYC museums the Dallas museum was pretty sad. I'm still glad we went though. They had some good impressionist paintings, and a fun outside garden area.







Afterwards we grabbed some gelato at Paciugo in the West Village





It was a fun day. We love TJ and Sunitha.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Joan of Arc Creperie

Shortly after we got back from Paris I started to crave crepes. How I love those little thin pancakes filled with nutella goodness. Tyler and I had previously tried a crepe place, but I was on the hunt for another one and I found Joan of Arc due to a livingsocial deal.



One Saturday morning back in August we drove over to Irving (40 minutes away) to satisfy my craving.


We shared a breakfast crepe and each had a dessert crepe. It was goody but we both felt they were very stingy with the fruit!!! Look at the strawberries... not enough for my taste. They were super busy and everything took a long time, but everyone was so nice. If we were in a hurry I probably would have been very frustrated, but since it was a leisure brunch date it was fine. I'd like to go back and give a whirl again.


Best crepe we've ever had is still from New York though. I miss Soho, and I miss crepes.