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Longing for the spring. Issue #01/2013

Posted by: on Feb 10, 2013 | 4 Comments
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Hi from the busy food photography department that is my studio! Are you folks as excited as I am about this winter getting close to its end already? That’s right, pretty soon the snow (we do have some lying around here in Germany right now) will finally melt, making way for the spring season of 2013.

Can’t wait to shoot summer images, but still this winter has brought some exciting opportunities, cooperations, photoshoots, and cooking challenges as well. As always, I do appreciate you reading and following this blog, and would love to share some of the recent images with you guys!

It’s beginning to look alot like Christmas! Issue #05/2012

Posted by: on Nov 26, 2012 | No Comments
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No, no, no – I haven’t been  lazy or anything! To the contrary – the amount of images I am shooting has been continuously growing lately, which sort of totally kicked me off track with this blog.
As the Christmas season is closing in, I decided to take some time off the daily routine and to share some of the pictures – and a couple of my favorite recipes! – with you guys! For those of you who are fortunate to read German, there are more of my images and corresponding recipes spread across recent issues of ‘So isst Italien’ and ‘LandGenuss’.

Think food photography is all about shiny light images? Think again: Issue #3 is here!

Posted by: on Nov 28, 2011 | 2 Comments
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Are you an active online netizen, using the best and boldest today’s onliniverse has to offer? If so, you may already have come across Pinterest.com – the incredibly inspiring online community where people can “pin” pictures that they liked anywhere on the net. We’ve joined Pinterest.com just recently, and we were fairly pleased to see that many people have already pinned Ira’s images here and there, including some taken from this very blog. Which does deliver additional justification to what we do here.

Brussels Sprouts With Bacon And Cream Sauce

Posted by: on Oct 26, 2011 | No Comments

500 grams (approx. 17 ounces) brussels sprouts
5 1/4 ounces (150 grams) bacon
1 cup cream
1 tbp yellow mustard
3 tbsp soy sauce
1 carrot