My son was christened this past weekend and my wife hired some local caterers to do the food. The setup was so pretty that I had to shoot a few images.
This was not the first time I’d shot images of food. A notable other time was here. I find its harder to shoot do without natural light, but it’s still an interesting challenge.
One of my favorite photographers had this to say about shooting food. And I think she’s right. And besides that, “pie-ness” is a killer word. (grin)
“It’s good for you!” is my wife’s refrain whenever we go on a family walk. She walks a whole heckuva lot faster than I do and up till recently, I’d quicken my pace to keep up (and she was the one pushing the stroller!).
This most recent trip, I wised up. I put my son in the backpack carrier and I grabbed my camera. Whenever something looked photo-worthy to me, I stopped. Sure, we walked a lot further than I would have on my own, but I never got really tired. And I got some fun snapshots, to boot.
I’d been thinking about doing this for some time so when the opportunity presented itself, I got enough to add a few to the website.
I played with the contrast for this one, but the version over at the site is a little less… intense.
I like the shot and several of the others I got that day. Thanks, fellas. It was great.
I’m leaving town Thursday and am probably not going to be near a computer.
I’ll leave you with this image from waaay back when I started cross-processing film. I bought these flowers (which I think Jim has since co-opted) specifically for the colors they’d make on my film. Interestingly, the place I got them has closed its doors forever.
Another from the archives. Happy Monday.
Several more (new) negs en route.
photographic ramblings of thomas scott 