Eighty-Second Collection

This image was shot for a client of ours Jet Park Hotels. We wanted the image to be bright, vibrant and as our client put it ‘screen licking’. Shot using the natural sunlight flooding in, with a Fujifilm 35mm lens.

In this personal project I tried to create a cucumber salad in a monochromatic style. This image was part of a series images in all combining different textures with different stories. For this one, I wanted to create a dark scene but showing the beauty of a cucumber salad.

Basil and strawberries are a perfect taste and color combination meeting in this cake.
Made in collaboration with a client in recipe creation and shooting.

An abundance of fruit on the window's shelf in a beautiful house on the hill.
It was a beautiful rainy day, perfect for moody captures.

Food is passion, memories, taste.
Whether it is a traditional homemade recipe or the latest reinterpretation of a starred chef, each dish tells a story.
Through the lens of my camera I'm inspired by those stories.
In this shot I wanted to capture the beauty and power of flavored 'cured meat', from the chef Lorenzo Romano

Coconut Matcha Panna Cotta with a little maple syrup for sweetness and a side of blueberries. Using the Golden Spiral to arrange the plates and utensils leads the viewer around the image. The texture of the Matcha powder is highlighted by a low side light.

Studio photography with a soft box and background light. Several images were needed to get the right rose pouring into the glass and from the bottle. Compilation with two selected images in Post production to achieve the photograph.

Drinks, light and shadows have been a favourite way of shooting for clients for many years and this image of @champagne_tsarine lend itself perfectly due to the interesting glass of the bottle. A studio light with snoot to give the long stemmed glass the shadow plus to allow those delicious champagne bubbles to appear. Plus a soft box to illuminate the travertine background and add shadow to the bottle.

Typical Italian receipt of pesto is a picture "to do" if you love Mediterranean food and homemade cooking. My focus is on the green of basil leaves and yallow of olive olive with a neutral background.

Something as simple as rose buds just waiting to be pestled before brewing tea, can be so beautiful and photograph worthy! The nifty fifty is a favourite. it allows me to capture all the details so well!

L’utilisation du contre jour en lumière naturelle permet de mettre en valeur ce gaspacho de tomates jaunes, le plat de l’été par excellence. On peut apercevoir la transparence des feuilles de basilic qui ajoute un léger volume à la composition.

Macro with macarons. Exploring the world of macro with these beautiful treats. This is an attempt to capture their color and texture, through the macro lens.

Summer berries in their glory. Simply a simple yet elegant combination- summer’s blueberries and strawberries. An attempt at still life captures through these beautiful berries.

A slice of chocolate sponge dusted with powdered sugar, topped with fresh cream and strawberry. An attempt to capture an inspiration for a monthly food photography challenge. An exploration of a ‘different from the norm for me’ approach to food photography.

Who doesn't love a good chocolate with their coffee? Along with @delartchocolat, we wanted to tell that story, transport the viewer to that moment of enjoyment.

Photo shoot of medium dry apple cider in for Talavas sidrs ( @talavas_sidrs ). Gulbene based cider production in Latvia. Cider and drinks are made from 100% Latvian apples, fermented and matured at low temperature for 10 months.

Summer Mushroom Linguine - One of those 10 minute meals that have so much flavour, colour and textures in one plate. I played with warm colours on the plate and kept the rest of the tones cool. The little details like grated parmesan, finely chopped parsley, cherry tomatoes and shine from drizzled olive oil all add something interesting to the story. It all speaks freshness and summer.

Food levitation is time consuming. But the results are so satisfying. It is a composite shot with back lighting and some light flagging to help achieve the edge illuminations.

Being a tea addict, I always love to capture tea images, so in a fine winter morning I decided to have a cup of basil tea, but before that I wanted to capture a picture of it. And here it is, beautiful splash and levitation with the tea!!

My kids are way too obsessed with home made pasta and that's why I have to make it often,now that they have grown up a little bit, they wants to be a part of the making process and I actually happily tought them how to make pasta from the scratch!! The pasta in the image is very special as this was made by my kids without any help from me and I just couldn’t help capturing a picture of it to hold the memory ❤️❤️❤️!!

Jamun Cocktail. The colors blend in so well and a hint of light from the back of the glass allows the drink to glow beautifully. An aperture of 2.4 helped me distinguish the foreground and background.

Garlic-parmesan pasta with edible allium flowers. The capture was created for a photography challenge, theme: „Pastel colors in food photography”. Shot using natural light.

A barbecue photo shoot is hard for many reasons:
1) You can't really control the flames;
2) You have to balance the flash light and the fire light;
3) It's not easy to set the flashes and camera around the barbecue pit;
4) The equipment gets smoked;
5) The photographer gets smoked.
But it's worth all the trouble.

Assorted herbs and spices commonly used in Indonesian cuisine. They can be dried or fresh, ground or whole ones. Usually the spices are blended into spice paste in a mortar and pestle, together with shallot and garlic.

This meal is based on Chirashi Sushi. This is a meal adapted to feed my senior dog, Miel, who is suffering from cardiac and liver problems; thus this meal meets the dietary requirement for a dog with these diseases.
Miel's dried dog food also takes part of this meal set. Yes, that's the bits on the upper left hand corner of the tray. For the main, I omit the rice and serve only the topping. I also serve some soup of chicken broth with seaweed, shitake mushroom and fried tofu. Fruits are also good for her, so watermelon and papaya are there to complete the meal.

This set meal is styled using Japanese styled crockeries only for photography purpose. When it was meal time for Miel, I served this on her regular dog bowl.

A traditional rice meal called Nasi Langgi, popular in Semarang, Central Java. Fragrant and savory rice topped with braised chicken, spicy liver stew, tempeh, glass noodles, potato crisps and omelet. This rice meal is served on a large wooden spoon lined with plum aralia leaf. Underneath the wooden spoon are two decorative banana leaves. The decorative banana blossom is placed on the plate next to the spoon.

This photo was made for an international chocolate brand, the chef chocolatier made these incredible donuts for the shooting.
The concept was ethereal and dreamy.

This picture was taken for a full page menu for a local restaurant. The whole idea is to make the picture as striking as possible with all the colors combination. I think we did it?

A shoot for a client with coiled sausages.
The idea was to show the sausages in a meal, rather than separate. At the same time to show how it looks like.
Absolutely beautiful product and challenging at the same time.

Photoshoot of Natureo Muscat ( @natureowines ) non alcoholic wine for @primoriga agency.
Photographer: @mihail_foodphotographer
Stylist: @karunavolodina