Crème brûlée

One of the things I love most in life is good food. I eat a lot. I like to cook. And I'm very happy when people like what I cook. The other day I saw a very simple recipe of Crème brûlée, that is 'burned cream'. I absolutely love desserts & I decided to try.

It was so good, that yesterday, when both my husband & son were asleep, I sneaked in the kitchen & ate another serving. Oh yes, it's delicious.

Here's the recipe:
Ingredients:
4 egg yolks,
1/2 cup of sugar
400ml or 1 2/3 cup of cream
vanilla extract
brown sugar for the crust, 4 Tb spoons

Process:
1. In a medium heavy-bottomed pan, heat cream. Do not boil!!! Just heat it up.
2. Beat egg yolks with sugar. Do not use a mixer, a fork will do the job. Add vanilla extract.
3. Mix the yolks & cream together, stir. 
4. This recipe is good for 4 servings. So at this point put the mixture into the forms. 
5. Preheat the oven to 300F. 
6. Take a big deep pan, put the forms there. Now put the water in the pan (not in the forms!). You have a double boiler now. Put in the oven, let cook 25-30 min. The trick is to watch it & touch it. If you overcook it, it won't be good. The way to test it is to touch the form & move it a bit. If it moves like jelly, it's ready. 
7. Take out, let it cool off a bit, then put in the fridge for 2-3 hours. 
8. Before serving, sprinkle with 1 tb spoon of brown sugar & burn the sugar till light brown with a gas lighter or put in the oven to broil for a couple of minutes. You can also spray some water if you are broiling, it will help the crust to form. 

Delicious!!!

Folk School of Chattanooga

I had a job assignment for Chattanooga Parent Magazine. I went to Folk School of Chattanooga to take pictures of a music lesson. It was not just an ordinary lesson. I saw 3 beautiful girls. And their mother. And their grandmother. 3 talented generations were playing various musical instruments & I was lucky to listen to them. To tell you the truth, I even sometimes forgot to take pictures!!!

Here's what I saw:

Victoria Mason
http://victoriamasonphotography.com/
423-834-0339

Wedding Album for Tyler & Allyssa

I love designing pages for the albums. It's always such a pleasure to see your work in a finished product - an album. I offer albums at very competitive prices. You can see the full pricing HERE
The albums are the part of some of the wedding packages that I have, but we can customize everything.

If you want to print an album using your own pictures, the total price will be the price of the album + 100$ designing & retouching fee.

And here we go: examples of the wedding album pages.

Strasburg Kids Fashion Show

Oh, last weekend I was shooting the Children Fashion Show organized by Strasburg Kids. There were so many pretty kids! Some of them look like real models. Pretty girls & handsome boys. Take a sneak peak!

Some girls really have everything to be models!

For some boys & girls chewing on the finger was more interesting :)

Some boys enjoyed being photographed

Some girls definitely enjoyed being photographed

Some liked walking around

Others were too shy to go anywhere

  

Some had the perfect model walk!

And perfect model posture!

And others changed their minds about a career of a model & decided to stay with mommies.

Some were a bit confused.

Some were sleepy

Some were energetic. 

Some were full of emotions!

And then were trying to escape!

and some were just fabulous!!!

WOW!! I got a present & I'm going to share!

I got a very  good coupon from the company that I use for printing on the canvases! I mean really good!
2 mini-canvases for 20$!!! Available in sizes: 4x4, 4x6, 6x6, 5x7.

I'm excited & I'm going to use it! Bwahaha!!! I just need some more walls in my house. Yes, I'm obsessed with what I'm doing! I love photography!

the coupon expires March 20, 2010.

Baby Calendar

Oh well, time flies by so fast! Spring is here!!!

Downloadable calendar for March.
Resolution is 1440x990px. To get it click on it, it will open fullsize, then rightclick on it & save on your computer. Then on your computer go to the folder where you saved the file, rightclick it & click 'set as a background'. Voila! You're done!
Tell me if you have any problems, I'll help you!

Also I still offer discounts for newborn sessions & belly sessions. I've been designing a baby album, here's a sample page.

I absolutely lllllove taking pictures of babies. Feel free to contact me with any questions & suggestions.