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Pepper Photos |
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Sunday, September 16, 2007
Fresh from the GardenThis was taken a couple hours before yesterday's photo of the day. This was the scene in the middle of the table that inspired the three hour photo shoot.The cool purple garlic bulb is from a recent trip to Gilroy for their Garlic Festival, but most of the others are fresh from the garden. bulb 2 | Capsicum chinense 4 | Caribbean Habanero 3 | food 21 | fruit 20 | garlic 3 | Habanero 4 | heirloom tomato 3 | hot 7 | jar 1 | nightshade 20 | pepper 7 | Photos I Grew Myself 47 | stem 7 | tomato 13 | vegetable 18 | vine 10 |
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Saturday, September 15, 2007
Habanero ReflectionI noticed this pepper as I was sitting at the dining room table this morning with my wife and bird. (His cage is in the corner of the dining room. He likes to be right in the middle of the action.)We have a huge pile of peppers and tomatoes on the table from our plants in the back yard. My wife has been pointing out the cool ones to me for a couple of weeks, and I finally couldn't wait any longer it was time for a photo shoot! About three hours later this was one of my favorite shots. But I can't take all the credit, I have a great Art Director & food stylist! The cool black tray was my wife's idea. |
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Friday, August 25, 2006
Wild PepperI would tell you what kind of pepper this is, but my wife grew it from a seed and the seed was in a packet of mixed seeds. Hope they taste as good as they look. Of course, this one is particularly wild lookin'. |
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Chicken SaladA couple of days ago you got to see the ingredients. Now we have the results! Food is a tricky thing to photograph. Especially something like chicken salad. It has the very real potential to come out looking like... well, something you really do not want to eat. In examining my favorite cookbooks, I have found that lighting and garnish both play a major role in making formless things interesting and appetizing.In the not too distant future I will be starting a new project, a cookbook, with a friend who owns a great restaurant downtown. I have to practice because his food is so good I really want to do it justice! avocado 1 | Chicken 1 | Chicken Salad 1 | food 21 | fruit 20 | nightshade 20 | pepper 7 | Photos I Cooked Myself 4 | plate 1 | Salad 3 | tomato 13 | vegetable 18 |
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Sunday, June 18, 2006
IngredientsAnother shot from yesterday's food experimentation. BTW, The tomato is supposed to be orange. The normal tomatoes in the store are bred for ease of shipping, shelf life and durability. But, sometimes I like a little flavor too. Fortunately most good stores are starting to get interesting little variants like these. |
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Monday, April 3, 2006
Yellow BellsI love Gelson's! Their produce looks like a farmer's market. They even stack everything with the stems pointing in the same direction. Particularly nice since we went there to find subjects for some still life food photography. |
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Saturday, July 23, 2005
One from the Pepper PatchThis is one of my little pepper plants living in a hanging basket in my back yard. One of my favorite restaurants (Los Arroyos, on Figueroa in Santa Barbara) makes, among other things, some incredible salsas. One of which is made from Habaneros, one of the hottest peppers. After getting used to eating their blazing salsa I decided I loved the flavor of this little pepper as well as the kick it gives things. So I had to start a little pepper patch in my back yard. Trouble was, I did not want my muse to get into the plants on one of her evening perimeter checks of the back yard. So they are safely tucked away well out of her reach in a hanging basket. |
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