Skaiste Malevskiene

Hot chocolate with gingerbread spice. Some shots are born in my head long before I take the shot. I bought this cute during our summer holidays in Bavaria in July. Already then I new what I want to shoot with this cup.

Snowy little meringues. White on white. When you eliminate the colors, you have to play with forms, texture, shadows and highlights.

I am a very dark and moody style food photography lover, but with these little gingerbread houses I wanted to create a light and airy feeling.

Pear hazelnut frangipane tart with chocolate shavings. This scene was not artificially styled for a shot. But when I’ve finished this tart with chocolate shavings and sugar powder dust and cut a few pieces my gaze got locked in all the beautiful details and then…. everyone had to wait until a made a shot before eating.

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.

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.

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’.

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.

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.

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.