You’ll have to forgive me, here – this was the first time I got my new camera out to play with it, and I set it on ISO 3200 in the middle of the day, so the shots are a little grainy. I’ve since learned that you can’t just walk around with the camera’s highest ISO setting on and expect great pictures.
Yeah, I haven’t taken pictures of food since 93 Plates. I mean, I needed a break, but not that much of a break. I just didn’t have my own camera for that time period and I finally got a Sony CyberShot DSC-TX5. What sold me on this camera was an Australian guy who couchsurfed for a couple days. 
He told me this Panasonic camera that shot pictures underwater was the most popular camera of all the travelers he’d met. Being the brand snob that I am (and the owner of about 128 GB in Memory Sticks), I found the Sony that could do the same thing. I think the exact sentence of the conversation that got me hooked was “One of my mates took out his camera, hey, dunked it into a pitcher of lager, and took a photo of ‘imself.” Obviously, I had to have one.
OK, so Billy’s Bakery … I was invited down here as part of a blogger outreach program (I love these) from a twitter friend, Beatriz. Her company launched in the US a while back and is right across the street from Billy’s, so she knew what she was getting (the Banana Cream Pie). Whenever I get invited to check out a place, I am never disappointed. It seems that if you write a food blog, no one is going to take you to the place that’s just OK, they’re going to want to show you their favorite place or one that’s high on the list. read more …
