I made this Rhubarb Strawberry pie as a celebration gift for my daughter Layla
Leftover Homemade Peach-Blueberry Pie + Recipie
Leftover homemade peach blueberry pie
This is a follow on post to the Peach Pie post yesterday.
The only reason this much was leftover is because we wanted to have more tomorrow. We’ve gotten a lot of interest in the Peach Pie post and requests for the recipe. Enjoy
Pie Crust
I found this dough recipe in Cook’s Illustrated magazine.
This recipe will yield an 8” to 10” crust for the top.
1 1/4 Cup unbleached all purpose flour 1/2 Teaspoon table salt 1 Tablespoon sugar 6 Tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into 1/4 slices 1/4 Cup cold vegetable shortening cut into small pieces 2 Tablespoons cold Vodka 2 Tablespoons water Process until the mixture has chunks like cottage cheese. Wrap the dough in plastic and refrigerate for 45 minutes. The dough can be stored for up to two days.
While you prepare the filling take the dough from the refrigerator and let it soften so you can roll it out after you’ve completed the filling.
Peach Filling
In my opinion Georgia peaches have the best flavor. Select firm peaches.
8 to 10 peaches peeled and sliced (thick) 1/2 of 1 Lemon, juiced 1 Egg 2 Tablespoons Flour 1 Tablespoon cornstarch 2/3 Cup sugar 1/3 Cup melted butter 2 Teaspoons Vanilla, use the highest quality you can find. Lanes has a Mexican vanilla. 1 Teaspoon grated nutmeg, grate the nut 1 Teaspoon cinnamon Blueberries, about a cup
Gently mix together and heat on stove do not boil, the goal is to thicken and create a sauce. Place the Peach filling into the pie plate. Cover with a layer of fresh Blueberries. Roll out the dough to the size of your pie plate. Option: Cover the entire top or cut slices and create a lattice. 1 Egg white, whipped moderately. Brush on top of the dough.
Cook at 400 degrees for 15 minutes on the middle oven rack. Reduce heat to 350 degrees and cook for about 45 minutes.
Your oven will bake differently than mine so keep an eye on the pie. Patti, my wife, recommends the pie be served warm with Haagen Dazs vanilla ice cream (in another dish) –she hates it if the crust gets mushy!
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Peach Pie
Peach Pie
When I was at the store I discovered the peaches were from Lane orchards in Georgia, so I knew what I had to do. Lane grows peaches and pecans in south Georgia and they are among the finest to be found in the market.
I try to keep dough on hand so while I was talking with Layla, my daughter, I threw this pie together, that’s why the crust is a little wonky. I know — don’t multitask. I pitched a few blueberries in for fun.
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Egypt
A man climbing on the great pyramid at Giza, Egypt
While editing images from Egypt I came across this one I photographed of a single person climbing on the great pyramid at Giza. The relationship of the person to the pyramid got me to thinking about the situation today in Egypt.
Small men with big egos may dominate a country for a short time. Countries with strong character and great heritage prevail.
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Fourth of July
4th of July fireworks, Lake Lure, North Carolina
Happy 4th of July from Lake Lure, North Carolina
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MONSTERA
Ordinary plant in my front yard.
I’d like to share this image with you as a way of celebrating the ordinary. This plant grows in my front yard. It can be purchased in any nursery. I like its formal name, Monstera deliciosa, the plant book says, “name unexplained,” love that. You might know it as Dieffenbachia or philodendron, it’s a member of the Araceae family.
There’s so much beauty all around us, enjoy. Wayne
If you would like to see more visit: http://eastep.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Fine-Art-Images/G0000awEbYVaMvH0/I0000ZWpOjF9Bb0k
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Bill Stettner
Bill Stettner and Wayne Eastep on location in Egypt.
Perhaps the refusal to cut down a tree blocking an advertising shot for RJ Reynolds in Egypt, the dismissal of an over zealous dog handler in Central Park on a shoot for Polaroid, or not requiring a 6-year-old to eat spam on a photo shoot for Hormel show something about Bill Stettner’s humanity. Bill was a highly sensitive and complex person.
I was fortunate to work with Bill at the peak of his commercial photography career. I assisted him on 250 jobs and saw the professional and the person behind the camera: a man with a terrific sense of humor, a remarkable awareness of the mechanics of image making, business acumen and ethics of the profession.
He was human with the good and bad. He had a temper and could be impatient. He had the ability to be direct in a way that at times felt abrupt. He was funny very funny.
Toward the end of my two years with Bill we had a conversation about what I might do with my career, as an “artist” I wanted to talk about the aesthetics of photography. Bill cut to the point and asked me, “What kind of lifestyle do you want?” I wondered out loud what that had to do with photography and he responded, “Everything. Look, if you create a photograph for an editorial story you’ll get paid $500. If you create the same image for corporate communications you’ll get paid $2,500, create the identical image for advertising and you’ll make between $5,000 and $10,0
00 dollars. If you want a family, to own your own home, go out to restaurants and have a nice car, you’ll need to shoot for advertising or corporate assignments. If you are ok with living a low profile life then you can do editorial or fine art work.” Thirty years later as a professional photographer I can affirm that Bill’s advice was sound. I wanted the “good life” and I wanted to do documentary projects, so I built a business that combined commercial and personal work, not an easy thing to do but worth the effort.
Bill had a director’s ability and paid attention to everything on a shoot, both human behavior and physical details. I remember many times being sent to the print collection at the New York Public Library to research a specific time or place. Bill was intent on getting the hat, car, soda can, the hairstyle and every other detail as authentic as possible.
One assignment comes to mind that will illustrate this attentiveness.
Bill Stettner shooting in Louisville, KY.
We were creating an album cover for Columbia records. The layout indicated a Victorian house with picket fence, mailbox and sidewalk. Bill commissioned a model maker in New York to build the Victorian house to scale. The model stood about thirty inches tall, included interior lights that worked, a one inch tall tricycle with pedals that turned and a mailbox with an envelope inside addressed to the artist c/o Columbia Records 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.
I asked Bill why make the doors and windows open, the lights turn on, the tricycle work and place an envelope inside a closed mailbox with a handwritten address. Bill answered, “The purpose of the image is to tell a story. As photographers we must go inside the story and illustrate it with authenticity. The intention of our effort and the energy we put into the picture will inform the final photograph in a way that the viewer will believe .” I was at an impressionable phase in my career and took that advice to heart. The advice has caused me a lot of extra work, but I believe my images are more authentic as a result.
Bill Stettner was a storyteller. He told stories, often very funny stories, better than anyone I’ve ever heard. That’s saying a lot because I grew up in the South where storytelling is a way of life. Time and again he helped a person who was self conscious in front of the camera relax and open up as a result of a story he told. He had a love of the story and great sense of humor.
Bill Stettner and Wayne Eastep on location at the pyramids, Giza, Egypt
Bill was one of those photographers who worked for years to secure photographers rights and protect artist’s copyright. He was ambitious and competitive but he was also generous. He was
effective in strengthening the profession of photography. He made my career possible because he gave me my first chance to work as a photographer. His plain talk and straightforward advice that I actually took to heart has helped me have a career that provided a good living for my family and a fulfilling life as an artist. Not only does Bill’s memory live on in my heart it is manifest in my creative and professional life. With gratitude I honor Bill Stettner.
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The Bedouin of Saudi Arabia are one of the world’s most unique nomadic people. They survive in the Arabian deserts under some of the harshest conditions in nature.
The Al Murrah Bedouin tribe attracted my attention because they have lived as nomads in Arabia with an unbroken bloodline for 5,000 years. I figured such unique people would have important insights into human relationships. I was right.
Leading Saudi families in government, business, judicial and academic communities have sent their young children to live among the Bedouin for similar reasons. King ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn Sa’ud, the monarch who unified the Arabian tribes and created the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, spent time with the Al-Murrah in the southern desert of Saudi Arabia.
When I began my career I decided to document the Bedouin in Arabia, specifically the Al Murrah tribe. This modest collection of images is from a library of over 25,000 images. They represent the book BEDOUIN which won the Pershke Price “Best Book” award and Gold Prize for the “Best of All Things in Print” the year it was published.
Visit http://www.EastepPhotography to see images from the book BEDOUIN
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- Al Amrah bedouin clan of the AL Marri Tribe preparing coffee in the Dahana Sands of Saudi Arabia.
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BEDOUIN of Saudi Arabia
Downsizing the Post Office
The news of downsizing at the Post Office brought to mind an image I made of the the smallest Post Office in America. To see this image and other examples of interesting American Architecture visit the American Built gallery at: http://www.EastepPhotography.com
Smallest Post Office in United States, Ochopee, Florida
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“The End of the Earth,” that’s how Herodotus described Kazakhstan. After traveling from one end of the country to the other I would describe it as the Center of the Earth.
It’s large. The ninth largest country in terms of land mass and the largest in Central Asia. China and Mongolia are on the eastern border, Siberia on the north, Russia on the northwest, the Caspian Sea on the west and the Stan’s: Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan along the southern border.
The landscape is diverse; mountains, forests, canyons, foothills, plains, steppes, semi-desert and deserts. Climate ranges from very hot summers to extremely cold and windy winters.
To keep my Nikon motor drives working in the winter I had to keep the batteries next to my chest under a layer of tee shirt, thermal undergarments, wool shirt, wind resistant insulated layering jacket and extreme weather shell designed for high altitudes. I had to slowly hand rewind the film to a avoid static electric streaks like lightning on the emulsion.
There’s a lot to show, so I will break the images up into sets. This first set will illustrate the mountains. Subsequent entries will show other features of this diverse and magnificent land.
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- Bayankol River Valley in the Tien Shan mountains, Kazakhstan
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- Glaciers in the Tien Shan mountain range, Kazakhstan
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- The Altai Range that runs along Kazakhstan’s northeastern border is noted for its rivers, waterfalls, springs and spectacular vistas, Mount Belukha, often shrouded in clouds, has its own persona that is steeped in history and religion. It has witnessed Chingis Khan invading with 200,000 Mongols, and listened as the chants, songs and laments of shamans echoed off its sheer cliffs. Kazakhstan
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- Zailiinsky Alatau in southeastern Kazakhstan
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- Nomads camped in a summer pasture (Dzhailyau) near Khan Tengri 6994 meters in the Tian Shan mountains.
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- The sacred mountain Khan-Tengri is know as “the prince of spirits.” Kazakhs revere this peak as a symbol of their ancient Tengri faith, which looks to the sky as the source of the great spirit. It is the highest peak in Kazakhstan and the crown jewel of the Tien Shan Range, which are called the celestial mountains. The upper third of the mountain is marble that glows red at sunrise and sunset. The Tien Shan is the most northern range of the Himalaya mountains.
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- Glaciers in the Tien Shan range with Khan Tengri in background, Kazakhstan
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- The sacred mountain Khan-Tengri stands along Kazakhstan’s borderr with Kyrgyzstan and China. At 6,995 meters (about 23,000 feet), it is only a few thousand feet lower than Mount Everest. This image was made through the open window of a Kazakh Air Force high-altitude helicopter flying at 6,700 meters (about 22,000 feet).
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- Fabled Shambhala is believed to be near Mount Belukha where the borders of Kazakhstan, Siberia, Mongolia and China meet. Rises more than 4,500 meters (nearly 15,000 feet) in the Altai Mountains.
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- Zailiinsky Alatau, Kazakhstan
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- Tien Shan range most northern ranges of the Himalayian mountains, Kazakhstan
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- Tien Shan Range
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