Fifty-Fourth Collection

Cookies and milk are a combination that doesn’t need styling. They hit the child inside us and they wake up our feelings. I remember the day I took this picture. I saw the light falling beautifully on the table, the house smelled amazing from the fresh baked cookies... the rest was just pressed the cámara shutter.

Strawberries, grapes, blackberries, fruit skewers prepared by french Chef-Traiteur Jérôme Roux, on a private birthday.
Day Light.

POT-AU-FEU - A recipe from my latest book "THE STORM KITCHEN" with recipes for outdoor life. Cooking outdoor is one of my other passions after food photography, and the chance to combine these two and this book was amazing!

Traditional Austrian "Osterpinzen" - yeast dough pastries served at the Easter celebrations or as an Easter breakfast.
You can find the recipe on my website: https://www.sweetsandlifestyle.com/osterpinzen/

A vegan Caesar salad by Chef Vanessa Lauren (@chefvanessalauren) featuring Melissa's Produce (@melissasproduce). The salad dressing is made from tahini and fried capers rather than parmesan, egg, and anchovy.

Home baking with ingredients found in the Cupboard, Icing sugar instead of caster sugar margarine instead of butter. They were as good as they looked

Sunny days and today’s lunch... My husband has been craving this salad for about 2 weeks since he ate it on his last trip to Munich... This is my own version. I can say mission accomplished! Happy belly, happy heart, happy husband.
Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Sigma 50mm F 1.4 art ƒ/10 1/60 ISO250

Chicken breast in dijon and panko served with lime.
It's a healthy version of fast food. It's a Nigel Slater recipe.
Camera: Fuji X-T3.

Baked eggs with homemade baked beans, a favorite homemade Sunday breakfast for our family. This image was shot with natural light. Canon 5D Mark IV and 50mm Sigma Art Series Lens.

I have been baking waffles for years. Definitely one of my favourite pieces of sweet! And as a camera subject, it is obviously a hero too!

Lockdown experimental cooking with caramelised onions | fresh herbs | and Pomme Puree
Captured with the last light of the day
Plate - @madeinjapanuk

Freshly baked bread, complemented with garlic, spices, and olive oil to create a delicious appetizer.

This photograph will inevitably remain in my memory as one of the strictly home-made jobs forced by the quarantine caused by Covid-19. The simplicity of this dish is as great as the conviviality it gives us while tasting it together with the people we love ... Best wishes to the peoples of the world, and to those who govern them, I ask them to draw lessons from this tragedy...
#iorestoacasa #fotografiamodacasa

I shot these gorgeous poached pears for a magazine and it made the front cover. I love the intense color and the shine of the syrup against the bright neutral setting.

I wanted to create a morning light effect for this shot of croissants with a warm glow and the feeling of a bright day. A little natural lens flare plus a boost during the edit helped I think.

This was my first time ever tasting purple asparagus (after I photographed them, of course). They were so super delicious. I could not believe how different they taste from the green!

WHERE IS MY GIN TONIC?
how was this shot born? from a game between me and the bartender. I was in a famous cocktail bar in Siena, “THE WHITE DOG”, called to my friends (owner and bartender) to shoot the new drink list.
After finish the work, I asked for a gin tonic and the bartender didn't want to do it. So, I took the lemon, the knife and I screamed, joking naturally: “where is my gin tonic?” Now this image is officially in the drink list

Shot for Janice Wong in Singapore. Janice was named Asia's Best Dessert Chef (twice), her creations are unlike anything I had seen before or since.
She is a force of nature when it comes to dessert creations, was a pleasure to work with and quickly learned that I am as obsessive with crafting light as she is with her own craft. Which was a beautiful synergy!

This was a dish made by the chef of Klein Zwitserland. I often go to them and bring my stuff. This dish was a dessert with mandarin, pumpkin and crumbs.

This photo was a photo practice with my students to make a product shot with single elements like coffee.

Camera: Sony A7iii
Lens: ZEISS 55mm 1.8
Shutter speed: 1/1600
Aperture: F8
ISO: 500

Flashes: Neewer vision 5 400 watts flash mixed with an elinchrom bxri 250 flash unit.
Light Modifiers: Softbox and snoot.

I like playing with monochromatic pictures and motion. Lavender is one of my favorites tea ever. It has a nice color, it is beautiful, simple, photo-ready. It all worked well for the photo.

This shot was taken for the Magazin "ZU GAST" - it shows a dish designed and made by the famous 2-star chef Konstantin Fillipou. He is running a restaurant in the 1st district of Vienna.

“Alfarojes” are cookies traditionally made in South America. For this photo, they were prepared by a couple of friends of mine. I created the photo in a dark style so that the falling sugar would stand out and be the striking point of it.

This image of canned Apricots in sugar is from my isolation series. I noticed on the first day of our countries quarantine, a surreal frenzy at the local supermarket for canned goods. I started to wonder if I had missed some important information on the news. This started a chain reaction in me and I too started to buy canned food. Once at home, I started to laugh, because I normally don't buy canned food but also became worried since I am alone. What if I got sick? Suddenly this array of canned food became very important to me. It gave me a funny form of security. All my images in this series are a combination of both multiple scanned imageries and camera data. Some final images contain over 50 single images. My aim is to create images that display the uniqueness of each canned food item.

Some quirky macaroon goodness!
An assortment of delicious macaroons shot and styled in pastel hues. A pop of yellow adds a certain fun element to the color palette and brings the shot to life.
Shot using a single light with a parabolic softbox.

Mussel cherry tomatoes pizza food shoot for a bistro cafe in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The pizza topped with mussel, cherry tomato, cheese and baked under real charcoal.

One of my favorite snacks! Goat cheese smeared on top of fig and thyme crackers with maybe a handful of pecans on the side or added fig jam for good measure.

This photo captures a moment of the preparation of ginger syrup with cinnamon, honey, and lemon according to my Grandmother's recipe.

Trying to go out of my comfort zone that is a moody style and challenge myself using the Golden spiral as a composition technique, I shoot a series of the image using bright complementary colors as the key feature to stand out the food and only a few props.

MILK & GRASS - Beautiful, tasty and aesthetic dessert by chef Vildgaard at two-starred Michelin-restaurant "Jordnær" close to Copenhagen, Denmark.