Here's what's cooking!

So, I'll start off with a few awesome facts about me - I'm not a food photographer (yet!) and I'm not a food blogger. But wait! Before you get bored of all the things I'm not, here's what I am - a lover of food and photography :) Which is why, when I had a bit of stay-at-home time, a bit too much of it actually, I decided to bake the day away.

What did I bake and make? A yummy, my kinda "Gooey Choco Cake" (yea, that's what I call it) with some appetizing images for company.

This is how it all starts - I make chocolate from scratch, as seen below and thoroughly enjoy it!

Very soon and quite unexpectedly, I'm done making the rich, bitter chocolate syrup. I keep the syrup in the freezer and dutifully, move on to the next step.

Cake preps!

It's a simple chocolate cake that I want to create, so that means eggs, flour, cocoa, baking powder, white butter, condensed milk and a cup of water - all go into a mixing bowl!

 And I whisk away! Whisk, whisk, whisk, till it looks something like this -

Phew!

 After a lot of whisking, the batter seems ready and yummy. So, with a lil' help from my mother, I decide it's time to take it to the oven. That's like almost an hour's wait before I get to see my poor little cake. Gosh!

So, I wait. In fact, everyone at home does. All of us, anxious and making frequent visits to the kitchen.
Ting! In case the sound effect didn't make it evident, what I'm trying to tell you is that my cake was ready! (yay!)

With tears of joy, I rush to grab my camera. It's time, I say.

 Okay, okay...it's not perfect but not bad for a beginner, yea? Oh, and you remember that chocolate syrup I made? Well, this is where it's put to use.

I swear it tasted so much better than I'd expected. It tasted like an actual cake, for starters! Okay, jokes apart, I think all the effort really paid off, it was fun and yummy fun. Which is basically my kind of fun :)

Disclaimer: All images used in this post have been photographed by me unless mentioned otherwise. Feel free to contact me at ananya@secondthoughts.co if you wish to use any of the images.

Thoughts For Sale!

First things first, here's wishing everyone a very happy 2013 :)

It's only ten days into the year and a lot has already been happening! One of them being #ThoughtsForSale.

This is what ThoughtsForSale is about - SecondThoughts Photography is putting up photography art for sale, all of this month, for all of you who love beautiful imagery.

I already posted the first image for sale on Facebook and here are the rest of them.

So,  if you think you'd like to own any of the above then send me a mail at ananya@secondthoughts.co. Or contact me on twitter @currymean

All of the images above are available in high quality prints as well as frames.

Disclaimer: All images used in this post have been photographed by me unless mentioned otherwise. Feel free to contact me at ananya@secondthoughts.co if you wish to use any of the images.