Intention for Attention

5/29/2021

Do you love crunchy salads? Think fresh, think texture! Texture draws the eye, and what the eye feasts on, the taste buds crave. Food needs texture to appeal, colour to arrest the eye, composition to lead it, and light to breath life into your dish. Every shot should leap from the page, and shout 'eat me!' In this dish I have used quail eggs as they are smaller than hens and kept a sense of proportion with the other ingredients. They have been placed in a spiral, to lead the eye. And the colours are essentially complimentary (yellow and purple) - opposite sides of the colour wheel. This brings energy to the scene. Every photograph is created with intention for attention!

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A Wedding Breakfast
It was my pleasure to photograph a wedding breakfast created by Colline Watt, owner of Colline's Kitchen recently. With a bubbly and nurturing nature, it's no suprise to me that this mother from Zimbabwe wants to feed us all with delicious, fresh and sustainable food, along with a decadent cake or two, and how typical that, on the first date that weddings were permitted in the UK after lockdown, she got the call and I found her in a pretty garden with spectacular views piling food and flowers on to a table in a high wind, and creating an edible work of art.
Colline's successful cafe business, set in the historic Town Hall in the market town of Newbury has been put on hold since Lockdown in March, but she maintains a service, delivering food as diverse as Afternoon Tea and Mongolian beef stir fry, sourcing fresh ingredients locally. Find her at www.collineskitchen.com

BUNTING
When Jo, owner of The Bunting Basket asked me to photograph her bunting, I read her bio, and discovered how the business began, and how it came to be named The Bunting Basket. After making bunting for a family christening, Jo was innundated with requests for it from her friends and aqaintances, and she soon began to sell it at craft fairs, carrying her stock in a wicker basket. When I read this, I knew a picnic basket had to feature in my photographs. I looked at the fabric designs, and thought about the premise for the business and then began to prepare my shoot. Find her at www.thebuntingbasket.co.uk

Intention for Attention

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