Cookies are cookies. Unless I take pictures of them in the morning and then they turn into little monsters from another planet where everything is blue even if it is supposed to be pink or white. And no matter what you do in post-processing, they never come back and look like their charming little selves again.... which leave you with no choice but to hate them. And it's not really their fault. It's that shady guy called White Balance that somehow manages to turn them from creatures of love and sugar into those little things that will hereafter be referred to as " cookies I now hate because I can't figure out how to get the right white balance in my pictures ." Except that, I CAN!!! Lisa from The Bearfoot Baker has the best post EVER on how to adjust your white balance before you ever take a single photo of those adorable little cookies. I love her. And her post. And one time, she even came to my house and sat on one of my folding chairs and pretended tha...

Here is my January confession -- I edit my photos. Compulsively. Even the ones I take of my children playing with paper cups and marbles on the living room floor. Especially those ones because my living room has the worst light ever. It makes SUCH a difference in my end photos.  Every time I see someone posting photos of gorgeous cookies that you can't quite make out because the shadow monster came and ate the afternoon sunshine, I want to write to them and tell them how easy it is to change that. I want the whole world to appreciate their cookie goodness at a glance. But I don't, because I feel totally awkward about it. I mean, maybe they like their photos that way. Who am I to judge the shadow monster? AND because I feel like there is this pressure to be an amazing photo-taker-person and if you admit to editing, then no one will like you because you are totally cheating and maybe you didn't even make those cookies in the first place. Maybe you just spent years ...