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Focussing mainly on Western Australia and Australia, I am seeking to preserve images and memories of the beautiful world in which we live and the people in it.

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Monday 3 September 2012

Carrots, minestrone & flowers!

An interesting mix for today. 

I have been searching for some old soup plates for my food photography. A couple of weekends ago we went to the Nannup Flower and Garden Festival, and in the Nannup antique shop (what a glorious place) I found tucked away along the back wall these old French plates - Sarreguemines. The proprietor said they were from the 1850s, but my research tells me more likely early 1900s - but do I care? not a bit! I love them!
I have 4 plates and all 4 have a different designs - perfect!
Seen here photographed with pea & ham soup in natural kitchen light.



I made minestrone and served with herb scones last weekend, served in my French plates. I've made herb scones for years, they are a perfect accompaniment for soup on a cold winter's evening.  I use whatever herbs I have in my garden - parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme (sounds like a song...) and this time I also added sun dried tomatoes to make them a bit more Italian to go with the soup.

Photographed in natural light on my back patio on a cloudy morning. I would have really liked some light and shade, but it was a completely cloudy day, so I worked with that!
I couldn't decide which image I like the best, so here is a collage.
Perhaps you can tell me which image you like? thanks!


And a mosaic of baby carrots - photographed in natural light - cloudy morning. There is those French plates again, and my serving spoon courtesy of my mother-in-law.
The baked carrot recipe came from Fast Ed's new cookbook "The Food Clock".  First you brown them in a pan a bit, but I think 20 minutes in the oven was a bit too long.  You were supposed to cook sage with it, but my plant has disappeared! so I used rosemary - just as good.


 Congratulations to everyone who participated in the Bunbury annual Floral Art Exhibition "Blooming Art 2012" on show in the beautiful Chapel Gallery at the Bunbury Regional Art Gallery. Congratulations to the winners, and the organizers, and Floral Designers Club exhibition chairwoman, Eileen Wenn. That's Eileen's prize winning arrangement on the top left, and her necklace on the top right.
The arrangement you see second from the left by Sue Larkin - Best Contemporary Design, Best in Show & Best Use of Colour - congratulations Sue - stunning work


Below is from Kim's Beyond Layers Day 60 - creating a "scripted image" layer. Here I am showing you the original unedited image, and with the "scripted" image next to it. I also added a sepia photo filter.We are learning some great techniques in Kim's e-course.


 Have a wonderful week. I am linking up with Mary at Little Red House and other wonderful artists at Mosaic Monday. Click on the link here to see their work - Mosaic Monday

Finally how about a jar of smiles for when life is not treating you so well....


If you would like to see some more of my food photography, I would love you to come over to my Flickr site -  Jill's Food on Flickr

Thank you for taking the time to come to my blog. Your comments are valuable to me and I look forward to hearing from you.  Have a wonderful week.


9 comments:

  1. So many beautiful photos...

    As to the minestrone and scone picture vote...that's difficult. I suppose I'd pick the bottom left with the scones emphasized but mostly because I have not had breakfast yet and they make me hungry :)

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  2. I can't pick a favorite shot. They all make my mouth water! Love your new bowls. The Blooming Art show looks like it was spectacular!

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  3. All photos are gorgeous. I love your new plates. Wonderful mosaics.

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  4. Jill, your "new" old plates are just beautiful. I love them! Your food images all look delicious. The flowers and edited version is beautiful too, well done! Have a lovely week ahead.

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  5. I can't pick just one photo, Jill - they are all fabulous. In fact I prefer the way you've made montages with them and love how you do that. I also really enjoy how you weave a story around a small daily life event and make it so interesting.

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  6. Beautiful mosaics, Jill. I love those French soup plates. Blue and white always speaks my language.

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  7. What lovely photos and those plates, perfect. :)

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  8. Yum, even early in the morning this affair looks yummy. I would say since you used the word Minestrone first, that the top left image would work, but the bottom left with the yummy looking scones works very well too. I love those plates, what a great find! The mosaic of carrots...superb~

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