A brief snow storm blew through Columbia, MO last week. The wind whipped the snow into blizzard conditions, even though we didn’t get much actual snow. When it all settled down, our Elm tree stood silent in the bitterly cold winter wonderland.
Next up is Los Angeles Photographer Amy Shertzer.
For our last challenge in our Food Photography group The Inspired Plate, we had the theme of celebrate. I was out of town without most of my photography gear or lights…and a gray dreary day…but still managed to get these Celebrate Food Photography shots.
We All Celebrate In Our Own Way
Celebrate with Champagne
Celebrate with Milk and Cookies
Celebrate with Tea and BonBons
Celebrate! Have a fabulous New Year! I always look forward to this time of year. Time for a new slate. New challenges to try. Enjoy the person you are right now
, or turn the page and rewrite who you want to be.
Hope over to Kim Kelly | San Diego Food Photographer and Writer and see how she captured Celebrate.
This month’s challenge for The Inspired Plate food photography group was The Holiday Table. I took this in a slightly different direction–as I regularly do–and didn’t shoot our actual holiday table or table set up. I wanted to share what makes our holiday table so special to me.
I have inherited some special pieces of silver and tableware from my grandmother.
Every year when I polish this silver gravy boat…a little worse for wear, but very beloved..I can’t help but think of the many Thanksgiving or Christmas dinners where my grandmother sat at her kitchen table and polished this very same gravy boat–just like I do each year. Such a fabulous connection to my past.
Then
, I was over at my mother’s a few years ago cleaning up from a broken pipe in their basement and came across this box of her mother’s china. Still all boxed up. Not used. Not loved. Just sitting in the now damp basement. I promptly decided it was mine…
Notice the Watergate headline on the newspaper…yep, it’s been boxed up a long, long time.
I think it is so pretty. There are like seventy hundred billion pieces to this set. A few of the bowls and teacups have minor chips, but most of it is in fabulous shape.
Now every Thanksgiving, out comes this china and our table is set…just like my grandmother’s table was so many years ago. My mom comments every year to my boys , “do you know this was my mother’s china?” They act like it’s the first time they’ve heard it 😉
Anyway, I just wanted to share a bit of our holiday table…via age old pieces of china and silver…which just makes our big family dinners that much more special to me.
Jump over to Sabrina Wong from Sabatomic and see what she came up with for her Holiday Table food photography shoot.