Seventy-Third Collection

Ciabatta. Can you smell it? The smell of freshly baked bread is most recognizable and memorable. The Ciabatta was invented in 1982.
iso160 f 1/7 1/160

Let's start this day with appetizing syrniki (cottage cheese pancakes) in TB Palace restaurant @tbpalace1 located in Jurmala, Latvia.

Levitation of a hot chocolate cup with whipped cream, standing in marshmallow 'rain'! So enjoyable, although it takes some effort to accomplish this photograph.

Sophistication of taste and warmth of the summer sun in an elegant glass. This photo was created during search for the best composition for my new cocktail, which combines the taste of pink gin with strawberries.

Gingerbread bundt cake with candied lingonberries crown. I am a huge fan of gingerbread dough or gingerbread anything and of course the process of baking just to fill your home with these beautiful scents.

Disfrutar de la comida volando y todo su proceso creativo es una de las cosas que más me divierten en la fotografía gastronómica.

A shot of honey in the whiskey? Why not, simply put the blurring in the foreground of the image with the aperture open, with a little soft light from the left and right side. The contrast between the dark slate and the golden yellow shining whiskey makes this a wonderful eye-catcher. Are you thirsty?

Asolo Prosecco DOCG superiore by Giusti Wine.
New product shooting, still life. I created a whole set of images to launch and promote this amazing bottle.
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Edible Christmas gift idea. Your favorite chocolate cookies with home made caramel, chocolate ganache or your favorite grandma jam. Just add a little star, sugar dust (aka snow) and some decoration to the wrapping and you get a perfect homemade Christmas gift for your loved ones.

Did this awesome shoot with a good friend of mine, who is awesome at coffee art! We have traveled through so many countries, and always we made somewhere on an mountain our own coffee! The love for coffee..

The great love between the cookies and milk.
Created at once using a string to form the cookies arch and some extra layers for the splash.

Orange coffee with cinnamon. It's magical and really tasty! I had fun doing this shoot and of course I drank this deliciousness after

Peanut butter pumpkins picked straight from the brownie dirt pudding patch, aka a childhood favorite upgraded for autumn with lifelike little gourds.

Cream of pumpkin and black winter truffle.
Work Made with multi-layers photographic compositing technique.
Shoot by Nikon D810+ Nikkor 24-70 and Hensel Studio Flash

A "crash" of caviar and ice for an explosion of flavor.
Multi-layer technique for this work.
Client: Urbani Truffle- NY
Shoot by Nikon d810+ nikkor 24-70 + Hensel contra flash.

Advertising for white truffle chips.
Shoot by Nikon d810- Nikon 14-24 + Hensel contra flash.
Multi-layer work made with photoshop.

When I saw this cake I thought it was something very close to cartoons. I chose a pink background to make this mood even more evident. I think it could be the “Simpsons cake”.

I love creating textures just with one light. It is simple but so elegant! The mirroring also ads an extra dimention. It feels to me like Rembrandt lighting.

Limoncello bottle photographed in a "clear" scene with different shapes and sizes of glasses, with the yellow limoncello liquid in some of the glasses in contrast with the purple flowers in the scene.

For a long time I had wanted to photograph coffee beans and make them come alive, I chose to use water droplets to give them volume and texture.
a studio light is turned to fit for this image.

This image was a joy to shoot. The berries were huge and gorgeous, and the undiffused natural light of a bright cloudy day was perfect.

‘Memory Box’. A food memory that is special to you. That reminds you of a time and/or place that you look back on with great fondness.

For me, it was an afternoon in a pub on the Edinburgh high street, during my first trip over to Scotland. A cosy setting on a cold day in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Planning our next stop and reminiscing about all we had done so far. This was also the first time that I had bona fide Scottish Haggis.

I chose to include some mementos in this image. A map of Glencoe, which is where we were heading next. A little tiny wooden Highland Coo (cow) that I picked up there. A coin from Edinburgh Castle. The closet thing I could find to a thistle here in Melbourne in the background.

Cozy winter evenings with roasted marshmallows and red wine.
Dark and moody photography was always really scary for me . But practise makes it better and better and that makes me really happy.

Homemade pizza with cashew cream, topped with red wine poached pears, vegan blue cheese, dried Mission figs, and caramelized onion. Topped with fresh basil from our garden. Quite possibly the best pizza I have ever made. Lighting: strip softbox at 11:00. Settings: Nikon D810, 50mm/1.8, ISO 100, 1/160 sec, f/6.3.

Im in love with home grown pears. They are incredibly juicy and just remind me my childhood spent with my grandparents in their garden during the whole summer.

These native rock oysters from the Nambucca River estuary south of Coffs Harbour are stunning!! Sydney rock oysters are world renowned for their rich and creamy taste, and those that flourish in the Nambucca River – known as an oyster ‘sweet spot’, are quite likely some of the best oysters you will ever have the pleasure to devour. The Nambucca is blessed with a very clean river system, fed from highly mineralised water that comes straight off the mountains, which is why the shells are so white and the flavour so unique.
I was nervous and excited to shoot these oysters as it was my first time! With a few tips from our Oyster sommelier I was able to style these gems in a simple way allowing their natural textures and colours to shine. By tilting the shell in different ways, I was also able to see how the light played off and when I was happy with the set up , I clicked this image with my 100mm lens.

The photo has been taken to a Client with their gorgeous selection of honey products. The packaging has been updated recently with yellow & blue colours in focus, so I brought this product into the natural environment that truly celebrates it!

Part of a series of images used in a rebranding campaign for Pizzarelli, a beloved Dominican pizza restaurant delivering happiness to homes since 1982.

I am an absolute fan of tea and the whole process of its preparation. Nothing's better than a tea in a cold winter evening. Would you agree with me?

Studio photography test shot the day before a full day food and beer photo shoot with chef and stylist. I wanted to get the colour of the beer right and happened to have a bottle of Great Northern, a local beer in the fridge. Then enhanced the golden beer tones with the orange backlight.