[Damo]

I'm sitting here in a Dijon McDonalds using their free WiFi to download new movies/TV shows. Blinding fast here too.

While I'm waiting, I thought I'd share a couple photos from this boat season:

Duck confit salad with grilled asparagus, nut roasted beets and hazelnut dressing.

Pan roasted pigeon breast on wild mushrooms with asperge sauvage. Served with confit pigeon leg on wilted watercress, grosseille syrup and truffle shavings.

Orange & vanilla panna cotta with vanilla-poached rhubarb crumbles and rhubarb sorbet

Croistilant du Chèvre on fresh fig and grape salad with walnut pesto and balsamic syrup

Dourade Royale on roasted red pepper and chorizo with salsa verde and micro herbs.

Moelleux au chocolat with a poached fig, fresh raspberries and a honey-port syrup

Chevre and thyme panna cotta with a salad of wild watercress, apple and toffee walnuts. Served with white balsamic syrup.

Charolaise beef fillet on young asparagus with kumara and Roquefort wantons on braised beet purée. Served with bearnaise sauce and chunky basil pesto.

Lime curd shortcake tartlettes with pistachio mascarpone, minted wild strawberries and gin jelly.

Home made pappardelle with confit rabbit, wild mushrooms and Swiss chard. Served with game jus, truffle shavings and fresh Parmesan.

Grilled lamb fillet with crispy polenta, oyster mushrooms and braised lamb poitrine.

Drambuie and lavendar ice cream with Earl Gray poached prunes and Hokey Pokey.

Cured salmon on pickled cucumber with a light wasabi dressing, a wasabi wafer and salmon caviar.

Pan roasted duck breast on sweet potato purée with confit duck & foie gras tortellini on Chinese Lantern mushrooms.

Chocolate and Baileys ganache slice with Creme de Menthe & white chocolate ice cream and an 'After Eight' shot.

That'll do for now I'm sure. I don't get internet often while I'm on the boat (except for basic sporadic 3G coverage on the iPhone), so I'm off to do other things now.

 

[Damo]

PS. I'm new at this food photography, so share some hints and tips with me!

 

[metalhead119042]

Cool shots! I've always wanted to try food photography, never had access to gourmet foods like that though! The only thing I could say is maybe increase the whites and brighten them up a little bit. What was the light set up?

 

[I Are Baboon]

I would eat that.

 

[ridiculous]

Wow! I want to try all of that. Especially the Pan roasted duck breast on sweet potato purée with confit duck & foie gras tortellini on Chinese Lantern mushrooms. Looks and sounds so good.

 

[macko]

those are some amazing one-bite appetizers.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

You need to come to Monkeyfest for some sausage and bacon.

Good looking food!

 

[Westy]

No pics of the McDonalds?

 

[LOOnatic]

The lamb with crispy polenta and the slamon with wasabi dressing..

 

[TN]

dude, you cant cook or take photos. j/k

 

[OGRipper]

Ha! I am picturing you taking a bite of a Big Mac - wait, I mean a Royale with Cheese - and telling yourself "I'm eating confit duck & foie gras tortellini. I'm eating confit duck & foie gras tortellini." I hope it worked for you.

I have nothing else to add except that your food looks and sounds great.

 

[narlus]

PS. I'm new at this food photography, so share some hints and tips with me!

i don't do food shots that often so take my words w/ a grain of salt (snarf!), but i would say that some shots would benefit from being stopped down a bit more, like the orange and vanilla panna cotta shot.

some composiitons are really nice to get other small details in, like the beef fillet shot, and the thyme/cherve panna cotta shot above. the last one is too cropped, i'd say.