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A Feast for the Eyes

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I am far from a foodie. To be truthful, I consider myself an anti-foodie. Don’t get me wrong, many of my dear friends are all about the food; passionate, spicy spirits that choose their ingredients with great care, prepare a meal with immeasurable love and enjoy what they’ve created by sharing it with family and friends. Seeing them in action only makes me wish I had the gift of loving food. But, I don’t.

 

What? Pause. Why? Pause. How…? I field the questions often and have no good answer. But cooking is so creative. Yes, food and cooking for many offers a creative outlet. I guess one could say I have my outlet. And it’s not cooking. But you already know that. And if you didn’t, you do now.

 

yet even taking my aversion to food into account (especially when it comes to the age old question, what’s for dinner) I do find myself drawn to the images of food that are found in passionate and delightful blogs and at Flickr. I marvel at how much attention and care someone like Jennifer Causey / simply photo gives to her daily culinary vignettes. Succulent. Simple. And totally irresistible. Or the way Kristy Bee makes the whole world seem extra sweet and juicy with each image she shares.

 

I must admit, there is something special about capturing images of food. Although you’ll never find a shot of a favorite recipe or a meal in my flickr stream, the tasty little morsels that are found in my home often call to me through their color and texture; in simple yet eloquent shapes, curves and highlights, organic and natural are too beautiful for me to ignore.

 

What about you? What do you find at your kitchen table that beckons to be noticed? Is there something that is begging to be savored by your palette or your lens? Tantalize us with your tasty food finds.

Comments

  16. what lovely images! thank you for sharing them, now i’m hungry!! 🙂

    it’s good to know i am not alone. i really don’t enjoy cooking. i prefer baking. but find them both tedious when i’d much rather be doing something else. i do like to eat food though, and after i discovered this last year, i put together a food set on flickr since so many photos were taken at my kitchen table.

    enjoy!
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/camerashymomma/sets/72157603683147664/

  20. I love food and eating as much as the next gal, but I’m so not a cook. I’m lucky to have married a man who enjoys experimenting with different flavors in the kitchen, and doesn’t mind serving up dinner most nights. =)

    I did whip up some mean pancakes last weekend, even if it was with a whole lotta help from Aunt Jemima:
    http://flickr.com/photos/mightymarce/3007289166/

    And here’s some tasty authentic Chilean empanadas I found at a farmer’s market in Lyon, France
    http://flickr.com/photos/mightymarce/2802224697/

    And, of course, my favorite food? Dessert.
    http://flickr.com/photos/mightymarce/2803227540/

  23. Ah…cooking I love…I am passionate about photographing food thought. You can see a lot of my food images in the food gallery at my new website http://www.anitaroachphotography.com

    or my flickr site…these are a couple of my favs

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/thrivestyle/1133630165/in/set-72157601469019652/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/thrivestyle/1300138543/in/set-72157601469019652/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/thrivestyle/1285610761/in/set-72157601469019652/

  35. I love to cook and bake – and eat of course! I do find that it isnt always fun to do under pressure tho – sometimes thinking of the daily "what’s for supper?" leaves me blank. I have recently started trying to take more pictures of food and have found out how difficult it is…the lighting is often too harsh or too little …so I have really been very impressed with the quality of the pictures posted here.
    Here is one example of my attempts…
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/22733432@N08/2182551753/

  36. One of my hats is serving as "Volunteer Artist In Residence" for Full Circle Farm, an 11 acre nonprofit, educational farm in the middle of Silicon Valley, so I’ve been shooting a LOT of produce in the past year…and it is truly a joy!! From the <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/pumpkinoodle/2698767299/in/set-72157607741947687/">first tomatoes</a>, <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/pumpkinoodle/2913548938/in/set-72157607741947687/">okra</a&gt;, <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/pumpkinoodle/2785614586/in/set-72157605215003194/">eggplant</a&gt;, and <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/pumpkinoodle/2517327858/in/set-72157605215003194/">favas</a&gt;, and <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/fulcirclefarm/2692928981/in/set-72157606316294512/">zucchini</a&gt;, freshly harvested food has become a continuous inspiration. Thanks for this awesome thread!!

  37. I’m always a little sad when something beautiful and delicious has disappeared from my plate into my tummy, so I photograph my food a lot.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/smilinglaura/359753341/ This is from when I was living in downtown San Diego, all by myself.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/smilinglaura/488578003/ Then I met a boy who took me to eat at nice places with delicious desserts.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/smilinglaura/2217877970/in/set-72157603849236236/ Then we got married and ate ice cream.

  53. I like to take the time to shoot the finished product as well as what goes around it. After many years and days in a pastry kitchen, taking the time to appreciate the work through photography is like sitting down with your favorite cup of tea!
    Here are four of my current favorites:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/40995944@N00/3026073471/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/40995944@N00/3026562690/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/40995944@N00/2960644346/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/40995944@N00/2885413508/