No Sweat

7/13/2022

Need to cool down?
Summer's perfect antidote - an ice lolly. But if you're in the business of selling them, how do you make your audience want to dive into the image and enjoy that chilly goodness?

Ice is a great medium to convey cold, and as you know, I am all about the story. Here I have taken the main ingredient (cherries) and frozen them in a tray of ice, which I then broke up to create a background for the lollies. This tells the customer the flavour, and gives the subject a beautiful textured background, which adds interest to the scene.

When shooting with ice cream and melty food, it's very important to set the camera and props up before adding the main ingredient as you don't have much time. Get your settings right, and make sure you know exactly where to place your subject (I used a book sized to fit the frame and substituted the ice tray for it when I was ready).

Shot with Canon EF 100mm 2.8 macro lens on Canon 7D M2

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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

No Sweat

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