Monday, May 30, 2011

Picture of the Day

Image Credit: AmUnivers

To many people, this image is of leaves in autumn, but to me, this image shows how the simplest item can be beautiful and easy to capture. This picture is beautiful because the leaf is a beautiful shade of red with the perfect amount of sunshine on it, and the thing that makes this picture beautiful is the fact that it can be taken in anyone's backyard. Any person can achieve this level of beauty without much effort or time involved. All it takes is a setting like the leaves on a tree, a camera, and the photographer and the rest is easy peasy.

This image applies to this blog. The recipes that will be used are for simple yet beautiful dishes that anyone can make, no matter where you live. Food does not have to have a complicated recipe to taste good, just like the image of the leaves did not have to show the whole tree to be beautiful. The entire tree would show the complexity of the tree along with its size, the lone leaves shows the simple yet sophisticated appearance of something much smaller.  The kitchen will be the setting, since this is where the cooking magic will happen. The camera in the case of cooking will be the different ingredients that will be used in order to make the food. Finally, we will need a photographer, or you, the person cooking the food. I want the chef to feel like they are taking a complex thing and turning it into something that was simple but still delicious. Just like the tree and its leaves.

3 comments:

  1. Angela this blog is wonderful. I love the way you used the leaf and the tree as a euphemism for cooking and the way it applies to making it look so easy. thanks i really like it!

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  2. Simplicity is often overlooked and missed out on. Through your picture of the leafe you really restate your purpose of the blog in that food can be creative, visually stunning and simple.

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  3. Simplicity, Creativity and taste are the three main words of your blog. It applies to nature as this picture of the flower highlights but it also applied to cooking. I think this is a really interesting relation between your blog ideal and the picture.

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