Food photography, it’s a funny old thing isn’t it?
Here’s a rather wonderful picture of the “Housemade Potato Chips - gorgonzola and calabrian chili dip, parmesan, black pepper” at Stella Barra Pizzeria on Sunset Boulevard, in Los Angeles.
I didn’t take that picture, although I was there, and I did eat some of the chips. It was taken by Lisa Jane Persky who’s a "proper" and very accomplished photographer. And I know that if I’d taken took a picture of those chips, they just wouldn’t have looked that good.
Here is what photographer Ellen Auerbach had to say on the subject:
And here’s one I did earlier, when I was trying to become the “Cheese and pickle doostep sandwich” at The Royal Oak Inn, in Woodchester, Gloucestershire in England. I guess I failed in my becoming. On balance I think that was probably for the best.
