(photograph © Kiwidutch)
Becoming a good blogger entails not only writing your own posts but also reading the blog posts of others. Often they challenge or inspire you, and sometimes you get the added bonus of links to other blogs that can in turn, start a chain of events.
This post is part of the “chain reaction”…
So.. let’s tell all. One of the bloggers that I follow is Tracy of Milkay Photography.
Yesterday Tracy blogged about the topic of Food Photography
http://milkayphoto.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/three-squares/#comment-4420
and her post was made in direct response to Scott Thomas’s
http://stphoto.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/assignment-11-food-photography
/ blog and his Foodie Photography Challenge.
Since I’m still laid up in plaster, I shall have to bend the rules of the challenge somewhat and dig though some previous meals of ours that I have taken photos of. (Crutches + Camera + accident prone = a risk I’m not prepared to take at the moment LOL)
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
Added to post later in the day … I found another photo of the soup..(yeah it’s been one of those days LOL)
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
Your soup photo is the first one I’ve seen with a black background. It provides a dramatic contrast to that beautiful sweep of fresh green laid across the white bowl. In the second photo, the sweep of green follows the curve of the plate. Very artful.
Comment by flandrumhill — January 26, 2011 @ 6:16 am |
Thanks flandrumhill! I use a lot of fresh herbs in my cooking and by coincidence both these photos have coriander (cilantro) in them. Thanks for the lovely comments and Welcome to my blog!
Comment by kiwidutch — January 26, 2011 @ 7:27 am |
I LIKE being part of a food chain reaction!! Both dishes look delicious! Very rustic and comforting and welcoming which I imagine your home to be!
With more snow coming later today (8″-12″ forecasted) that SOUP would be so nice to have right now! Now I’m inspired to make some chicken soup….that should get me through all the shoveling I am destined to be doing tomorrow.
I LOVE using fresh herbs! I have pots of rosemary, thyme, oregano, sage, parsley and basil growing in my kitchen window. I don’t use alot of cilantro…hubby is not a fan.
Comment by milkayphoto — January 26, 2011 @ 3:01 pm |
Thanks Tracy,
The soup is pumpkin soup, and we love coriander(cilantro)here! Did you know that about 10% of people have something genetic with their taste buds that means that cilantro tastes very bitter? That explains at least *some* people’s strong aversion to it.
No snow here, Poor you, like you needed more (NOT!)… and yes my home is rustic (i.e. that means beaten up by kids and their toys LOL)
Comment by kiwidutch — January 26, 2011 @ 4:18 pm |
The soup looks really, really good, as I am hungry for warmth on this cold day–but the second photo won my heart! My eyes, it turns out, are hungry for color! Amy-Lynn is right about the way the cilantro curves on the plate. Very nice.
Comment by Gerry — January 26, 2011 @ 5:51 pm |
Welcome to my Blog Gerry, Thanks for the nice comments! I remember that when I did that salad for guests, I just needed something at the last minute to jazz up the lettuce around the edge and the coriander (cilantro) was on hand. As is usual for me the photo wasn’t planned in any way at all and guests started eating it as soon as the camera was set down LOL.
Comment by kiwidutch — January 26, 2011 @ 6:55 pm |
Hello! Thanks for stopping by and commenting on my blog today!
Your salad photo is gorgeous. You’ve got me craving a a beautiful, crunchy salad.. unfortunately, salads are not so tasty around here at this time of year.
Sorry to hear you are laid up with crutches! Here’s to a quick-as-possible recovery.
Comment by Karma — January 27, 2011 @ 2:44 am |
Pumpkin Soup you say? I love pumpkin bread and pie so this sounds right up my alley (and down my stomach, too). The photos and presentation of the food is excellent. I like the black background as well. Wish I could have found something like that in the restaurants I photographed in. They all had white dishes on white table clothes.
The post title is great. One of the reasons I started the assignments was to entice new people to participate through the blogs I follow. In turn, I find even more friends who are near and far from me. I would really enjoy hearing the story of your blog id. Are you Dutch or Australian or both?
Comment by Scott Thomas Photography — January 27, 2011 @ 5:41 pm |
Scott, Ack! Australia ? I’ll be gentle on you since it’s your first visit to my Blog LOL. Here’s the info: “Kiwi’s” are New Zealanders, and Australian are “Aussies” (it’s like confusing a Canadian with an American, except that the AU/NZ accents are much further apart)
I was born in New Zealand to a Dutch father and New Zealand mother, so I’m dual everything. I’ve lived for 18+ years in The Netherlands but we get to go back to New Zealand every few years.
That said, I very much consider myself a “global citizen”. I find that the more I travel, the more I see fabulous places and excellent people, celebrating our differences whilst appeciating our similarities. This hopefully helps me to have a wider world view and greater acceptance of people and their cultures.
I also love to support and show appreciation for the very local gems on my doorstep, small business, history, food, and cultural stuff that you don’t read in the guidebooks.
I’m of the opinion that no matter where you are there is always something to learn… eyes and ears open and camera (hopefully) at the ready.
I write a lot… cook and craft and am a fairly recent photographer, so in all of these the learning continues.
Restaurants don’t give you much leeway with your setting, at home I’m a dark background fanatic, but out and about you just have to make do with (literally) whatever is on the table. I’ve very much enjoyed looking at ALL the photos that people submitted in response to your post and have been inspired by many of them. Your Assignments are an excellent way to stretch our skills and learn from each other, Bravo!
Thanks for visiting and the kind words too… I hope you will pop in here often, as I do to your blog.
Oh, I’ll be posting one of *the* best pumpkin soup recipes sometime soon
Comment by kiwidutch — January 27, 2011 @ 6:52 pm |
Thank you for putting up with my ignorance. I sure would love to visit New Zealand someday. For a recent photographer you do very well. Thank you for the invite. I will be stopping by now that I have meet you.
I’ll be looking for the pumpkin soup recipe for sure!
I post an assignment every other month so the next one will be in March.
Comment by Scott Thomas Photography — January 27, 2011 @ 8:50 pm
No Problem Scott, it might not look very far on a globe but the distance between Sydney-Australia & Auckland-New Zealand is 1338.23 miles or 2153.61 Km. It’s just that the Pacific Ocean on the ofter side is so vast that the Tasman Sea looks small by comparison. Northern Hemisphere folks mix the two up all the time, so you aren’t the first and won’t be the last either.
I’ll be trying to take part in the assignments from now on (work permitting) because not only is it fun but it also shows me how other people tackle the same subject … great inspiration!
I won’t forget about the pumpkin recipe either
Comment by kiwidutch — January 28, 2011 @ 7:19 am |
In my experience, you can tell Aussies from Kiwis by the way they pronounce the word “bread.” The Aussies say something that sounds like “braid”, and Kiwis say something that sounds like “brid”. Similarly, Aussie “franed” and Kiwi “frind” for “friend”. Aussies’ vowels loop broadly like the flight of a boomerang, while the vowels of Kiwis are small and constricted much like their islands. Kiwidutch, am I close?
Comment by jstwndrng — January 28, 2011 @ 5:56 pm |
When I’ve stopped laughing, I’ll tell you!
Comment by kiwidutch — January 28, 2011 @ 6:35 pm
Oim glade yiu foind eet sai fanny!
Comment by jstwndrng — January 28, 2011 @ 7:22 pm |
[...] to introduce you to kiwidutch from the The Netherlands by way of New Zealand. Her blog not only featured some fine food photography but brought up a very important aspect of my photo assignments. That is to expand each of our blog’s reach as we explore each others photography and those [...]
Pingback by Assignment 11: Recap | Views Infinitum — February 2, 2011 @ 11:33 am |
Your photos are really good, and the light perfect. Delicious!
Comment by Giiid — February 2, 2011 @ 12:40 pm |
Your photos are fantastic. The food looks so delicious it’s making me hungry. lol!
What kind of soup is that?
Comment by Robin — February 2, 2011 @ 8:06 pm |
Robin,
That one’s a spicy pumpkin soup… in fact Himself made some of it tonight (for dinner tomorrow)! Glad you liked the photos! Thanks for visiting my blog
Comment by kiwidutch — February 2, 2011 @ 8:31 pm |
Your soup looks delicious, love the composition of the first image.
Comment by Nye — February 3, 2011 @ 3:41 am |
Thanks Nye,
You’ll have to try the soup, it’s as good as it looks !
Welcome to my blog
Comment by kiwidutch — February 4, 2011 @ 7:14 am |
That soup looks really good! I ate dinner not too long ago, and now I’m hungry again.
Comment by thedailyclick — February 4, 2011 @ 12:36 am |
Welcome to my blog DailyClick… you have summed up Foodies Blogs in one… they are the devil for producing hunger pangs. I even think that you could feel hungry if you looked at a food blog whilst actually eating dinner LOL.
If you try this soup, (especially with the Thai curry paste) it might start a soup revolution! I have converted so many well established “I’m-not-a-soup-eater” with this this single recipe that it still amazes me!
Comment by kiwidutch — February 4, 2011 @ 7:20 am |