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I’m happy to inform everybody that this is my first entry for the prestigious CLICK photo contest.  I didn’t have the idea of taking part in the contest until this evening.  Like many other bloggers, I have this pre-conceived notion that it’s for great photographers.  So I didn’t even bother to think about participating in it.

At this juncture I would like to mention one other thing.  Actually I don’t take any pictures for my blog.  I arrange the food and my husband being a photography enthusiast, takes the pictures.  I was taking it earlier when we had the simple Sony Cybershot digital camera.  But recently my husband bought the Canon EOS 40D camera and I have not yet learned to operate it, so for the time being “JK” is the official food photographer. 

He ALWAYS has the habit of rushing through things in the last minute, and that’s how he got the idea of participating in the event this morning.  I was telling him that we can do it in June, but he was determined to make it this month itself.  He has this idea that, only when we near a deadline, we can become more creative.  I hate to admit that, but he was right. 

We got all these crazy ideas and he started taking pictures of various beans and lentils around 4 PM.  He was telling something about using different cookie cutters and to fill them up with different types of beans.  So I thought of making flowers with round and heart shape cutters.  But that did not come out properly.  Then suddenly an idea flashed in my mind, why not use alphabet cookie cutters to spell out CLICK and fill it with different beans.  So I tried it out and it did look good, but it was plain.  I felt that soemthing was missing and moreover there was a little white color smudge mark on top of “K”.  So I had to do it once again in another clean place.  Then I got the idea of having a border around the word and started working on it.  In the meantime the sun started to set and on the other side my toddler was trying to pull the poster board on which I was working.  Finally I was able to complete it and my husband took some pictures.  I think it has come out decent.

Here is another click on the same theme:

I really loved this experience of working with my husband or rather arguing with him.  So eagerly looking forward to take part in the contest every month. 

Thank you very much Jai and Bee.