Shrovetide - Laskiainen 3.3.2019

Photographing food is hard. For me. And especially hard if I'm planning to eat the food after the photographing. No gimmicks like washing-up liquid, hair spray or dry ice to get a natural glow or something. Not that I have dry ice in my back pocket, but if I had, I wouldn't use it on food. Because I love to eat. But not food that tastes like soap or something weird.

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Desert is a whole different case. Photographing the desert. It must be because desert, cakes, buns, pies and such aren't food. I mean, they are food, but then again not. Everybody knows that there's always room for desert. Human anatomy is weird like that. The desert goes to different stomach than the actual, real food. Desert is just foodish like substance, not food. So there's always room for something sweet with coffee.

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So that is my explanation why these photographs of laskiaispulla, shrovetide bun, don't look like someone just ate a roll kebab, drank 6 beers, whole bottle of Vodka, and barfed that all to the street for the pigeons. That's how my photographs of food normally look like. But not these. In my opinion. You are of course allowed to disagree, but I'm not listening, because it's dessert. Different stomach, different brain, different understanding, different reality.

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