Nikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 — ¹/200 sec, f/4.5, ISO 2000 — image data
Tasty and Refreshing
Läkerol candies
スウェーデンの甘草

Last autumn when Damien Douxchamps visited Kyoto and introduced me to some new (for me) temples, he also introduced me to the delightful licorice candies from Swedish company Läkerol.

So delightful were they that, upon not finding them for sale in Japan, I enlisted the help of a friend in Germany, and came home from my New Year's trip to find a box brimming with an assortment of 11 different flavors...

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 — ¹/200 sec, f/1.4, ISO 320 — image data
Variety
it's the spice of life

I haven't tried most of them yet, but the cactus flavor (I never knew cacti had flavor, much less tasty flavor) is the one I most liked among the various flavors Damien had with him.

My jetlag is still being unfun, so I didn't spend much time on these quick snapshots, but I got lucky in the first shot by having grabbed a dry-erase whiteboard (also pressed into make-shift photographic service in yesterday's post about Japanese candles) as the backdrop... I hadn't even thought about the nice box reflections until I happened to notice them after setup.

Sometimes luck is more important than skill. 🙂

Continued here...