This week’s photo challenge, Focus, is asking to share one’s favorite focus (or out of focus) photo. Now, there are two “aha” moments in every photographer’s life: the moment you try your first full frame camera and the moment you get that low aperture lens to play with focus. Focus (or, more precisely, its strategic lack) is what made me fall in love with photography. (Ok, there is a third “aha” moment and that is when you take and process – successfully – your first RAW photo.)
A cup of Turkish coffee at the Café des Délices in Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia
This photo of a Turkish coffee in a Tunisian cafe is my latest absolute favourite. I love it so much that I am using it as a background photo to my mobile chats, – this and what is means to me (not to mention my favorite color combo of white and blue). And it means… focus. On this cup of coffee, on the moment of pleasure it offers, on a creative break, on living and breathing, in the now. How often we let beauty, taste and creative pass unnoticed, busy with our daily concerns, daily thoughts, daily messages, news and chats.
I keep it precisely where most of this noise is coming from, on my phone, to remind myself. To focus.
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Beautiful photo, Natasha, especially for a coffee nerd/junkie like me. I had a super turkish mokka when we had dinner in Cairo this past Sunday :-). They just know ho to brew a proper Mokka down there !!
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Thank you Marcus – and I could see on your blog that your work trips are approaching mine in terms of (business) risk/ opportunity vs exotic appeal/ adventure! Well done, way to go! 🙂
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Thanks :-))
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We are wondering now how Tunisian coffee is made. We’ve had the Egyptian one, the Moroccan one. And they all have this contraption to brew the coffee. How was Tunisian coffee made?
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You guys are so insightful, I love your comments! Tunisian coffee is made in a French press or filter, just like every Americano coffee you would imagine. This one is Turkish, made in a jezva, a metal pot with a handle. I expected it to be an Arab tradition, but no, jezva it is. 🙂
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Ah. Yes we recall they used different contraptions. Like the Vietnamese one or the Belgian one!
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Thanks for sharing such a fantastic post. Keep posting more update.
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I can feel your excitement for the new camera through the text.
The photo is truly beautiful, it captures every single detail that is essential in helping get the point across! The blue makes everything look so serene.
Thank you so much for sharing!
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