MAY FLOWERS AND FOOD

Huge purple iris in my front yard

Hello and welcome to May! (Queue Justin Timberlake reference) Spring is here, and summer is on its way!  We had quite a soggy April in Oklahoma, but you know what they say, April showers bring May flowers.  My peonies are huge and the most beautiful shade of pink, I planted some iris bulbs this last fall not knowing what would happen but crossing my fingers and boom, they sprouted and are GORGEOUS!!!

Bright and happy birthday cake

Food and Photos in Vermont

In April I went to Brattleboro, VT for a Food Photography Workshop. It was amazing. I have posted about the workshop a few times, but I learned so much!  You think you know everything, or at least most things, but then you go to workshops like these, and you find a whole new way of thinking, and learn things you never knew you never knew. Like how to arrange items by size and color, and how to use light to your advantage to catch the viewers’ eye and create outstanding images.

We had several assignments/projects to work on including pastries, ingredient layout, charcuterie boards, drinks, soup (yes soup), and finding a new style. For this last assignment, we were instructed to take items to shoot in the style that we are used to and like, and then had to change it up to a new style, like dark and moody. I personally picked the dark and moody because I am a bright and color type of girl so dark and moody was a fun challenge for me.  Especially fun with cake.  As my instructor called it, “Goth Birthday”.

Dark and moody birthday cake

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Can you believe we’re already five months into the year?
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My salad recipe I have yet to try

While at my Food Photography Workshop, one of our assignments was to put together ingredients for an ingredient shoot of our own device.  In true “I don’t know what I want to eat” fashion I grabbed some ingredients that I thought would make a good salad.  Among the ingredients I chose were green lettuce, mushrooms, shallots, gorgonzola cheese and grapes. I also picked apple cider vinegar, olive oil and raspberries and blackberries that I thought would be a delicious vinaigrette.  The entire time during this shoot, while experimenting with the styling of the food using our instructors’ guidelines, working with the spectacular spring sunlight of Vermont streaming in through the window, camera settings and camera angles, I thought, this salad might actually be pretty good.  I could picture this salad with maybe grilled salmon as a tasty summer dinner.  I still haven’t made this salad as of this writing, I think I need to.  Stay tuned to my social media to see how it turned out.  Maybe I will even decide to put together a photoshoot for it. 

That’s all I have for today, be sure to subscribe if you haven’t already. I will always have fun stuff in store and you never know what will come out of my head and onto my keyboard.

-Alexis