The Amazing Foodscapes by Carl Warner
Though playing with your food is frowned upon in some social circles, we're pretty sure it's a-ok in the case of Carl Warner. Ever dreamed of a world made entirely of bacon? What about forests of broccoli or seas of cabbage?
At first glance, these images look like painted landscapes, including towering hills, mad sea and stormy weather in the background. However, if you look a little more closely you will see that the sea and storm were made of cabbage, in other photo trees are broccoli and the hills are baked potatoes. These aren’t paintings but true photos! Also everything you can see in the photograph is made of real food! Pictures were photographed by Carl Warner, a photographer who works in London, and who made specialty of these food landscapes or ‘foodscapes‘.
Carl devotes a lot of time to planning each image before he starts shooting, and he spends a lot of time staring at vegetables in supermarkets, which can make him seem a little odd! The resourceful and ingenious series requires numerous shots -- Carl first sketches out a traditional landscape scene before introducing the food. Each scene is then captured in separate layers to prevent the food from wilting. He then uses computer technology to combine them into a single final print.
To give a realistic 3-D feel to the photos, each still life is composed on an 8 foot by 4 foot table. The foreground is only about 2 feet across.
The artist from Tonbridge, Kent, creates amazing panoramas, including a broccoli forest, bread mountains, a cheese village, and smoked salmon seas. "I like the way smaller aspects of nature resembled larger ones." says Warner.
The success of the project has motivated Warner to plan for the images to be released in an educational book to encourage kids to eat healthier. He says his 'Foodscapes' were partly inspired by healthy eating campaigns, but they haven't persuaded his own children to take up the 5-a-day pledge. "But at least they don't play with their food as much as I do." said Carl.
In recent years he has also been commissioned by many advertising agencies throughout Europe to produce his distinctive images for clients in the food industry.
Take a close look at the scenes and you'll discover it's good enough to eat -- Each one stunning in their own right, we just can't stop analyzing each nook and cranny for different sorts of vegetables and meats! We love every scene.
Which one is your favorite? Let us know in the comments!
Thursday, March 06, 2008