Skaiste

Malevskiene

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.

When photographing dishes I love trying different options: light/dark backgrounds, natural vs artificial light, flowers vs candy or chocolate and very often I find very unexpected combinations being the best ones. Mini chocolate bundt cakes with chocolate topping. A very monochromatic version.

This is a mini chocolate bundt cake and a sweet little candle and me making my 40th birthday wish. With the help of my husband and my elder son I was able to freeze the moment.

When shooting this orange cake I had a disastrous day, my camera batteries died and any compositions I made didn’t please me enough. So I just let it rest till tomorrow in this lovely basket in my kitchen. And then the next day composition was born by itself.

Mini chocolate bundt cakes. Same cakes but a bit different food styling versions. I love the contrasts and the similarities of this picture. It makes your eyes play.

This is an episode from my series of photography on beverage texture. It can be so many beautiful yet totally different textures: frozen, creamy, silky, icy, smooth, bubbly, foamy, steamy and even on fire. I have decided to catch them all. So FIRE it is! Flaming ‘Spanish Coffee’.

Now with blackberries and figs in season I use them everywhere, but my favorite thing though is to have them both with baked camembert cheese and a slice of sourdough bread.

Ginger-roasted plums with blackberries and dark rum. Autumn harvest at its best.
It’s one of those shots when the scene catches your gaze and wouldn’t let it go…

There are many different textures of beverages. It can be frozen, thick, pulpy, creamy, icy, smooth, silky, bubbly, foamy, steamy or on fire. In my photo series I have decided to catch them all. So here it is - the BUBBLY rose gin.

Chocolate mud cake with a little snow. Action shots are such a game changer, just by adding a little dusting to the scene you can totally change the energy and the mood of the picture.
I also chose a white & black theme for this picture. It is quite challenging to make B&W food pictures look appealing but I think this chocolate mud cake with airy little meringues looks just perfect in B&W.

Chocolate truffles with the crust of roasted coffee beans and cacao dust. Also the stoped moment of anticipation and temptation.

Beautiful textures of fresh honey and the honeycomb. The liquid gold of nature. I wanted to capture it in a luxurious way to reflect its beauty and grace.

This picture is about textures and shapes. Simple and yet beautiful loaf of bread and greens: peas, basil and mint. Simple is beautiful.

Part of the joy of a pavlova is having that satisfying ‘crunch’ together with smooth and soft layers of mascarpone cheese and sour pop of berries in your mounth but this pavlova tart is layered with levander infused mascarpone layers so it gives this unexpected depth of floral flavours in addition and creates an unforgettable combo.

Cherry Chocolate Clafoutis. There is something magic about cherries and chocolate together. Just wanted to capture this coalition of colors, textures, and tastes. I think this dessert very well catches it all.

Tomato tart. Sometimes when buying products in-store I not only see the products but also the recipes and the compositions immediately. This tart is exactly what happened when I saw all these beautiful colorful tomatoes on the shelf.

Rose blossoms macaroons with chocolate basil ganache. These are my very first homemade macaroons. And it turned out it’s not so difficult at all and this rose and basil chocolate ganache flavor combo is amazing.

Flourless chocolate hazelnut tart with apple blossoms. When I have started the food photography path I have learned so many rules about the composition which I had to incorporate in my photos: layering, triangles, implied action, etc., and at some point of time, I have noticed that I just make a composition intuitively that looks beautiful to me and somehow find all these rules in it retrospectively.

The very first blossoms in my garden this year were these little purple pansies. I had to make something special and beautiful with it. And here is the result - chocolate cake with whipped cream, blueberries and my beautiful pansies.

The Blueberry Dutch Baby. This picture is my story for the 5 days of storytelling challenge organized by amazing teachers and creators Eva Kosmas Flores and Beata Lubas. Adding a human element to the scene always makes a difference. A big thanks to my husband for his patience and support.