The Ideas in Food blog folks, husband and wife team H. Alexander Talbot and Aki Kamozawa, and outstanding co-chefs in their own right, have just self-published a book… not a cookbook, but a book of photographic inspirations for cooks, food photographers and stylists alike. The photos included are all images from their blog, picked because […]

John Sherlock is the expert food photographer behind recent books from Vikram Vij, Rob Feenie, and John Bishop. Barbara Jo’s Books to Cooks in Vancouver will be hosting John as he uses Christopher Styler’s Working the Plate: The Art of Food Presentation to give a step-by-step lesson on the art and craft of food photography, […]

Food & Wine have posted the results to the Food Photography photo contest they held this summer. The online gallery includes 5 winning photos plus 25 honorable mentions that were selected by the editors (including my entry, shown above! yay!). They received over 950 entries. Congrats to all the winners!

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I am impressed. Playing with food was a blast, and I love how everyone really got into the spirit dreaming up all kinds of crazy scenarios for their food, like the photo above, which seems like a great segue to this month’s theme: Fall. I’m leaving it up to you to decide which Fall you […]

coming soon! But, I’m traveling… so bear with me a day or two.
In the meantime, feel free to keep posting your Playing With Food photos… there have been some brilliant ones! I almost want to just keep playing!
-L

One of the trickiest parts of food photography is dealing with reflections. Whether it’s shiny plates, silverware, glassware, or even the food itself, the reflection can either make the photo gorgeous or look sloppy. I often find photos of my own that I can see a tiny me and my camera captured in glint of […]