I have converted some of these images to black and white for the Black & White Photography assignment. I'm glad I shot them in color, and post production conversion to black & white instead of shooting them in monochrome, or black and white. It has been a while since I did a panning shot, and… Continue reading Visiting Grandma Last Weekend
This is my contribution to Scott’s Assignment 24: Black & White Photography. I've decided to shoot in Raw and in color, then post production conversion to Black & White in Lightroom 4. I thought it would be interesting to see vibrant subjects in Black & White so I went to visit a small backyard chicken… Continue reading Assignment 24: Black & White Photography
Click here to watch this video on YouTube The latest pair of chickens that Bo gave to his mom were a Feather footed hen and rooster known as Frizzle chicken. They are still very young, the female looks like a chicken peep when she walks. A Frizzle is a type of chicken with feathers that… Continue reading Chicken Update
One of the best things about visiting Grandma is her home cook meal. I was hoping to learn a new Lao dish this visit but we didn't have enough time. There is always the next visit. I've recently developed food allergy amongst other things, and dinner at her house was one of the best… Continue reading Visiting Grandma
We travel every year to Bo's parents for Thanksgiving.This year Lee dressed her part as the Native American, but in reality we were like the Pilgrims that traveled the Mayflower journey to settle in North America. We just came many moons later. As Laotians and Laotian Americans living in the US, we are thankful to… Continue reading Thanksgiving Feast Lao Style
We visited Grandma's today, and got there before one of her customers picked up these eggs. She has several regular customers that would come by when they want fresh eggs. Max was glad to visit again. He killed several of her chickens the last time Grandma kept him when we were out of town. Bo… Continue reading Grandma’s Chicken
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/23193009 w=500&h=400] Grandma has so many hens that she lost count of them. They are like her children and they follow her around. She has to lock the roosters up part of the day so that the hens can do their business. This one is waiting for her turn to lay her egg, Grandma said… Continue reading Chicken Update May 1, 2011
The Americana hen finally hatched her eggs. She started out with 12 eggs, one cracked at the very beginning. It took 21 days for the eggs to hatch, 1 peep died before it hatched, and 2 rotten eggs. Another peep died and I think the mom must have stepped on it, Na said it looked… Continue reading Chicken Update November 13, 2010
It has been 31 weeks and the young hens are hatching their own chicken peeps. This Americana hen has been sitting on 11 eggs for 21 days now and she has hatched 7 out of 11 eggs yesterday and today. These were not all her eggs though, Bo's mom picked the biggest eggs and she… Continue reading Chicken Update October 30, 2010
It is 23 going into 24 weeks and the hens are laying about 2 dozen eggs per day now. Bo's Americana hens are laying more bluish eggs than before. This one has a strange color, not sure which hen laid this egg. The Lao mortal is still a favorite drinking fountain for many chicken. They… Continue reading Chicken Update September 6, 2010
Chicken update August 29, 2010 and it's about 22 weeks. Just the week before that the hens were laying 12 eggs per day and last week they were laying 20 eggs per day. We picked up 3 trays of fresh eggs on Sunday and gave 2 trays to my dad, I'm sure he is enjoying… Continue reading Organic Eggs
21 weeks and Bo's Americana hens finally lay some eggs. Bo and Lee visited his mom yesterday and bought home a tray of fresh laying eggs. Between his mom's Black Star hens, Rhode Island Red hens and Bo's Americana hens, they lay 12 eggs per day now. Bo's Americana hens lay the greenish eggs below… Continue reading Chicken Update August 17, 2010
