A summer dinner I created, that I thought would work better as a light and summery brunch.
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Beautiful Raw Meat Photography with Cannings Free Range Butcher
Shooting for Cannings Butcher. It was such a fun experience, and working with the gorgeous, fresh cuts of meat was like creating artwork.
Keep ReadingCoconut Mango Lime Frosty
Shooting a frozen treat with new props.
Keep ReadingWhen The Shoot Continues…Raw Peanut Butter Cheesecake Tartlets
A few months back I shot two raw desserts for an editorial for Mayver’s Pure State Spreads.
Keep ReadingHoliday Cheer with Cake!
Some holiday cheer with none other than my favourite kind of imagery – CAKE!
Keep ReadingHoney Buttermilk Creams with Red Currants, Blush Cherries & Strawberry Consommé
This addition to Finding Breakfast was one of the very first concepts I imagined when I started this project.
Keep ReadingHandmade Sour Cream Tartlets with Summer Berries
I love this time of year when all the summer fruits and berries start appearing at the market. I have been ideating on a few personal projects, and have had to plan them around when certain berries would be in season.
Keep ReadingGingerbread Loaf with Spiced Poached Pears and Vanilla Bean Cream
I don’t know if I can put my finger on it, but there is just something so comforting about gingerbread, especially when it is warm, straight out of the oven.
Keep ReadingIn My Dreams, There is a Cake in a Forest.
Just out of nowhere, I began to have visualisations of a lone cake in a forest. Recently, Matt and I shot images for our wedding invitations in a pine plantation about an hour out of Melbourne, and little did I know I would be back assembling a three tiered cake amongst the rows and rows of trees. {Um…isn’t that what artists do, of course I was going to be back?}
I kept having this dream about shooting a cake in a forest, and I kept telling everyone that it was going to be my next project. Saying it out loud sounded, well ludicrous – and I loved it. Imagery of a cake dwarfed by the towering rows of straight pines, yet having enough magic for you to instantly connect to.
Keep ReadingFinding Breakfast: Chocolate Ombré Pancakes
This being my first post in this new series, Finding Breakfast, it’s probably a good idea to introduce what this is all about. I’ve been sitting on this idea for a while now, and these shots are close to a year old, (really – I waited that long to share this?). I am not quite sure what I was waiting for, but the time just didn’t feel right.
Now that I have this new space to play in where I am focusing on food stories, the project just felt into place and I am glad I waited. This will be an ongoing project and a journey of its own. I am hoping to post monthly on this series, saying that out load makes me feel more committed and a little scared as I feel worked to the brim all the time!….
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