My wife and daughter are great bakers. Actually, my wife is. My daughter does participate, but left to her own devices she would likely mix ice cream, flour, some glitter, a doll’s shoe, and possibly a daisy or a beetle to be baked.
We ran out of bread the other day. We could have gone to the shops to buy more. Instead, Anne prepared this in less time than it would have taken me to buy some.
Raisin Bread. (c) Roger Overall 2011
I’m going to run a new series on the blog for a while. Food Friday. I would like to do more food photography, so I should show more food and food-related photographs.
I’ll kick it off with a fish photograph. That seems appropriate.
Fish. (c) Roger Overall 2008
Food really interests me, so it’s nice to get the occasional food shoot. This one for Ardsallagh Goat Farm and Dairy was very simple. Window light and little else. This is the first shot I took. A little too dark and moody for Ardsallagh’s intended supermarket use, so the final images are much brighter. I like the feel of this frame, though. It has atmosphere.
By the way, did you know that goat’s cheese has no cholesterol?
Ardsallagh Smoked Goat's Cheese. (c) Roger Overall 2011
I’ve done quite a bit of food-related work in the past, and it’s something I enjoy. It’s also a business sector well suited to the documentary approach.
I’ve just added a gallery to the new website featuring photographs taken at a local bakery. It shows the kind of work we could only dream of when we were children. I mean, imagine how a seven-year-old would react if you told them that this was your day job:
The icing on the cake. A no nonsense approach at the Old Mill Confectionery bakery here in Cork. (c) Roger Overall 2008
