Welcome to our 10 on 10 project. This is a personal project. Once a month, along with 15 other photographers all post 10 images on the 10th day of every month. Please click through our blog circle to see all of our 10 on 10 projects. Next up is the very talented Amy Boring, California Lifestyle Photographer.

breakfast.
apres meal game.
pretending.
Walmart.
spill.
You Pick Two.
1/2 birthday day.
off the bus.
Brenda Acuncius inspired v-day idea.

Please click on the very talented Amy Boring, California Lifestyle Photographer next.

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The kitchen sink homemade pizza recipe.

A bunch of bags of pizza dough from Trader Joes. Seriously, buy a lot. They are $1.09 and only make about a 12″ round.
Trader Joe’s has several different kinds of pizza dough, plain, whole wheat and garlic herb (which I will buy next time).
Flour.
A relatively large flat working surface for dough.
Rolling Pin, or your hands.
Lots of pizza sauce. Canned Sauce or Classico brand is pretty good.
Barbeque sauce – We love Sweet Baby Rays.
Trader Joes already grilled plain chicken.

The toppings are the best part of making homemade pizza!

Lots of veggies. Pick some. Chop them up. Make it colorful. Get creative.
Here are some ingredients I wish I had (next time)
Sweet Basil, sliced tomatoes, sundried tomatoes, turkey sausage, artichokes, roasted garlic, mushroom .
We had Turkey Pepperoni.
Sweet onion and red onion.
Black olives.
Cilantro
Salt and Pepper
Olive Oil.
Lots of Mozzerella Cheese.
Gouda or another smokey type cheese.
Spices. I use Penzy’s Spices, mostly their garlic salt and red pepper flakes.
A Pizza Stone. Read directions for your particular one, you may need to preheat oven with stone.
A pizza cutter, and large pizza oven spatula.

Make sure you set out the pizza dough 20 minutes before you start kneading it.

Take out ball of dough and add a little flour. Don’t over flour or over knead the dough as it will taste too dry and flaky.
This part was a lot of fun as the kids really loved making their own pizzas. We stretched the dough to make
rough circular shapes. We should have added a little olive oil and cooked the crust slightly before putting
toppings on it.

Add sauce and toppings. Cook for 10-12 minutes.

Please click through our lazy susan circle and check out Gretchen Davis’ awesome chocolate fondue.

Now please click through to my sweet friend, Gretchen Davis and see what she is cooking up with her chocolate fondue.

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People often ask me how I find inspiration.  I will respond with something visual and tangible, an image, a book or magazine, a movie I saw or just getting out and capturing those things that interest me most.  Inspiration is also something I get from other people doing amazing things.  As a photographer, you can only imagine what our jobs would be if we didn’t have our eyesight. Our eyesight is everything to us. It is how we communicate through our images.

A friend of mine from college called me last week. She had a friend who needed help “getting the word out” about his disease. She had worked with him in the past and asked if I would help.

The gentleman my friend was speaking of is EJ Scott. The disease is slowly taking his eyesight. He will eventually go completely blind. He is 36 years old. The disease is a rare inherited retinal degenerative disease that causes blindness and has no cure. It is called Choroideremia.

Last year he ran the Chicago Marathon, blindfolded.

This year he is running 12 marathons in 12 months in 12 US Cities in 2012, all blindfolded. EJ is running 314.4 miles, blindfolded, for charity!

One of the 12 EJ Scott is running in is here in St. Louis, Missouri. The Go St. Louis Marathon on April 15th 2012.  I am helping get the word out and fundraise here in St. Louis.  We are hoping to get a few sponsors, events and an improv show set up to raise money.  If anyone is interested in donating or sponsoring EJ Scott for the GO! St. Louis Marathon, please contact me at sara@sarategman.com.  You can donate for EJ’s cause directly through the foundation, Choroideremia.org here.

Please follow EJ Scott on twitter @EJScott and @12marathons2012. Follow EJ on Facebook.. Help spread the word!

He already ran the one in Phoenix in January. He runs the Austin Marathon in February.

Here are all the cities he plans to run in 2012. He needs video of him running in the races. If you own a video camera or flip or even an iPhone, come out to cheer him on and take a video or two!

1) Sun January 15th – Rock n Roll Arizona Marathonhttp://runrocknroll.competitor.com/arizona
2) Sun February 19th – Austin marathon http://youraustinmarathon.com/
3) Sun March 18th – Los angles marathon http://www.lamarathon.com/
4) Sun April 15th – Go! St Louis marathon http://www.gostlouis.org/
5) Sun May 20th – Rite Aid Cleveland marathon http://www.clevelandmarathon.com/
6)Sat June 23rd – Rock n Roll Seattle marathon http://runrocknroll.competitor.com/seattle
7)Tue July 24th – Desert News marathon Race Series Salt Lake City, ut
8)Sat August 18th – Fallsburg – Lowell, MI
9) Sat September 15th – Krolls Diner Bismark marathon – North Dakota
10) Sun October 7th — Bank of America Chicago marathon
11) Sun November 4th — NY ING NYC marathon
12) Dec first weekend yet to be announced date for Las Vegas , NV

Please check out his recent visit to the Dr. Drew show.

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Welcome back and Happy New Year! We are excited to bring you our 10 on 10 this year. 10 images taken over the period of 10 hours on the 10th of the month every month. We are excited to bring you a group of photographers that will awe and inspire you to do this challenge with us! Start your own 10 group! So grab your cameras and start shooting for an entire day, every hour for 10 hours. It is such an amazing feeling to shoot all day and be able to tell a story with my images. This month’s edition was shot over the holiday break. We headed to Chicago to visit family and celebrate the holidays. One of the first days there we took the Metra into the city, which is such a “new” thing for our girls. We wanted them to experience the American Girl Doll Store on Michigan Avenue.

Please click through to our next 10 on 10-er, the fabulous Rachel Devine :: Photoblogger.

Shadow Dancing

train speed

“tickets please”

map it

family at the bean :: millennium park

Park Grill Bistro Hot Chocolate

the city

maya & marilyn monroe

american girl

back home

Please click through to our next 10 on 10-er, the fabulous Rachel Devine :: Photoblogger.

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Happy New Year! Our Lazy Susan group is starting a new year with a fresh look at food for the month of January 2012. If you would love to indulge us in visiting previous months here are the posts from Lazy Susan November and December. This 2012 year is shaping up to be full of new goals, accomplishments and resolutions. For me, this year will be about living a happy, peaceful and well-fueled life. Lazy Susan wanted to bring some dishes that keep things simple and healthy this month. Each of the recipes we have chosen will total less than seven ingredients so that these recipes can be easily remembered, take less time to make and the ingredients will be easy to come by (or in my case, substitute). This is a recipe I have adapted from Good Housekeeping December 2010.

Cucumber-Pomegranate Salad

1 lemon
1/3 c extra virgin olive oil
3 Tablespoons Champagne vinegar
Salt and Pepper
1 1/2 lbs. fennel bulbs
1 seedless cucumber (English)
1 Granny Smith apple, halved, cored
and very thinly sliced
1/2 cup fresh pomegranate seeds

1. From lemon, grate 1/2 teaspoon peel and squeeze 2 tablespoons juice. In jar or container with tight-fitting lid, combine oil, vinegar, lemon peel and juice, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and and 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper. Shake well. Dressing can be refrigerated up to 2 days.
2. Pluck 2 tablespoons fennel fronds from fennel tops and reserve for garnish. Trim and core fennel. With adjustable blade slicer or very sharp knife, very thinly slice fennel. With vegetable peeler, peel alternating strips from cucumber skin, then thinly slice cucumber at an angle.
3. On a large serving platter, layer fennel, cucumber, and apple. Shake dressing again and drizzle all over. Top salad with pomegranate seeds and fennel fronds or fresh dill (I substituted pomegranate craisins as pomegranates had a shortened season due to drought).

Each serving about 85 calories, 1g protein, 8g carbohydrate, 6g total fat, 2g fiber, 0mg cholesterol, 120 mg sodium

Please check out Shannon Harrison’s delectable Baked Gnocchi dish. Hmmmmmmm

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Last minute run to Party City for the holidays.

Please click through to Jasmine Sargent of Jasmine Sargent Photography, Hazen, ND to see her take on this weeks theme, candy.

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…to believe in the magic of Christmas. Christmas Eve 2010. Nonna and Pop’s house. Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.

Please click through our blog circle with Jasmine Sargent of Jasmine Sargent Photography | Hazen, ND to see what she captured for this week’s them, Tis The Season.

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In between my holiday shoot schedule and all the activities with my girls, I found some time to shoot with a friends macro lens this past weekend. Such a change of pace. Enjoy my taste of holiday macro. Happy Holidays!

Please click through to one of my dearest and most talented friends, Shannon Harrison for Jack and Ruby Studios out of Temecula, California.

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Red.

Please click through to Jasmine Sargent out of Hazen, ND to see some sweet red stuff she cooked up.

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These images are from last Thursday. 25 people came to our home to enjoy a Thanksgiving feast. You see, that bird will go down in the history books. My mom and I have been making the same MS recipe for at least the last ten years. I don’t think Martha Stewart even has the recipe available on her site anymore. It’s an amazing one. All the root vegetables, cheesecloth and Madiera wine……I have to freeze the leftover gravy, it was that good.

More importantly, though….It was a holiday to remember. My most beloved family members were all under one roof for the day. It has been one of the most challenging six months for my family. And, I am so grateful that we were able to break bread and enjoy some of the finer things all together. Mostly, Thanksgiving for me is pure family, food, love and life. I am blessed that I get to share this life with such amazing people. I adore them. I will do anything for them. Especially fill their bellies with this…

Please click through to one of the most amazing woman and photographers I know, Jasmine Sargent out of Hazen, ND for her Thankful post!

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