Being a keen viewer of “foodie” tv such as Great British Menu and Masterchef, “deconstructed” food seems to be very fashionable at the moment. During a shoot this week for a local food business in Aylesbury I snapped this whilst the food was being made, my take on a deconstructed egg!
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I’ve actually agonised quite a lot as to whether I should write this blog entry because the last thing I want to do is criticise how people make their living (particularly photographers and chefs!). Sponsorship is an accepted reality for anyone in the media spotlight, not just for celebrity chefs. However, some recently launched ad [...]
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Troedyrhiw – go on, for all you non Welshie’s that is your pronunciation challenge of the day! Its significance? It’s the name of the village in a South Wales valley where my grandparents lived, and where I spent many a weekend, school holiday and new year. Today I suddenly had a desire to make some [...]
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It is always a great treat when something surpasses your already very high expectations! The Vanilla Bakery is a company based in Suffolk run by a friend of mine Gemma and her husband Mike. Gemma and I actually went to junior school together and after a 25 year gap were reunited via Facebook a few [...]
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It’s been crazy busy at Imaging Essence since the beginning of the year and I have so many blog entries stored up in my head, so expect a few to appear this month! We’ve been working both in our studio and on location and I thought I’d share some of the highlights from a recent [...]
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I was delighted to have been invited to be the official photographer for the third annual Thame Food Festival last Saturday, and spent the most fabulous day snapping lots of local food producers and suppliers, entertainment, cooking demonstrations and interesting food talks. Considering the weather had been pretty grim leading up to the Saturday, the [...]
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Imaging Essence is now growing our own
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So I blink and it’s Easter – seriously where is this year going?! Anyways we went out to shop at PE Meads Farm shop near Tring yesterday in order to stock up for the Easter weekend, main shopping purpose was for their home reared meat and fantastic chiltern rapeseed oil. Whilst there I picked up [...]
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So you’ve made the effort, cooked a delicious valentine’s meal just for two, and want to wow with a great cheese course, you won’t get far wrong with one of these beauties from our friends at the West Country Cheese Co After I took the pictures I managed to bagsy myself one of these, but [...]
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Starting out today, new imaging essence blog, all new food photography, published web sites and general foodie banter will be published here
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