At a time when much of the surrounding world is flooded, I am feeling completely drained. I am content, but without impetus. This inertia has led me to take pictures of inert and empty objects. In truth, most of my subject matter is inert. Food tends to be still, unless it is still alive or being thrown. I relish the quality of light in these sunless, grey days.
I have been shooting a series of spoons, following a brief for a possible book cover. The brief demanded an empty spoon on a contrasting surface. The simplicity of the idea appeals to me and has led to my favourite “prop” spoon spending more time than usual out of the cupboard.
Food, Photography & France 
Invite Uri Geller for tea – the spoons will shriek 😉
I wouldn’t let Uri near my spoons…imagine what Putin would think of a bent spoon:)
Ha ha – I suspect he’s hiding something…
Great spoon/pictures.
Thanks, Rosemary…hope all’s well
I love these. Really special. And pretty.
I’m glad they work for you:)
light and shadow and a talented photographer brings a sensuous delight to the lowly spoon!
Cheers, Joss:)
It’s hard to be sure, but let’s say that the first and second of these are black-and-white; the third is obviously a colour image. While normally I would be drawn immediately to b/w, in this case I really like the extra feeling of depth in the third one, which is still essentially monochromatic.
Nice to have a little bit of asceticism after all that lovely grub!
That’s interesting….in fact all three are colour images….
That beautiful last one will join Diebenkorn, Frankenthaler, Avery & Hockney in my Pacek jigsaw puzzle file. I will work it out on this very grey cold. Your photographs are perfection. Merci beaucoup!
Many thanks indeed:)
These ought to get you the book cover job, Roger, if you don’t already have it. The first one is my favorite.
That’s the one that has been shortlisted by the client….good judge, Andra:)
I know you did not ask, but I love that second one. Very subtle. Now I must away and bottle some beer. c
Bottling beer is a very good thing to do ….it will not brook delay:)
Roger, I love your spoons, but most of all I love how you’ve made ordinary extraordinary. I so wish I could take one of your workshops.
We’d love to have you there. Thanks for the kind words:)
Beautiful and it looks like a spoon that has had a good life with many (food) stories to tell!
It’s a very good actor, that spoon:)
Aha – a method actor 😉
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I do like the dynamic, 3-D effect of that first one. Edle Einfalt und stille Grösse.
Many thank:)
I like the different light and hues in each photo.
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I like the warmth in the third one – makes me feel like grabbing the spoon and using it to eat some of that Bird’s custard you like so much 🙂
You remembered:)
Elephants never forget 🙂
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These are beautiful. I like the metaphor and the photos. Well done!
Thanks for that:)
The images are so beautiful (in their simplicity) and I love the light – so soft.
Almost impossible to find that kind of light here (in Australia). Maybe up on the high mountains on a cold wintery morn might fit the bill.
The grey weather here supplies plenty of this light:)
Your prop spoon is quite handsome. I like the shots a lot. Would just a book very favorably if they were the cover (my favorite is the last one.)
I can’t make up my mind….I wish the client would:)
They’re all good. That’s a good problem! BTW, I mean to say “judge a book” not “just a book” .
It’s interesting doing a series of pictures of such a simple object.
Roger, this is a beautiful image-poem on the silver spoon!!!
I hadn’t thought of that, Cornelia… nice idea:)
If one has to have grey (days), then at least one can have those beautiful spoons.
It’s not a great comfort, but the light is wonderful for photography:)
“This Spoon Should Not Be Empty” should be the title of the book with part of the proceeds going to world hunger projects. Whether that’s remotely true, I do not know, but that’s the first thing that came to mind with a little memory from your previous posts.
I’ve been thinking along the same lines. I was just too late to enter it for the Food Photographer of the Year Competition….I was thinking of titling in a very similar way to your suggestion.
It is wonderful to come across a photographer who loves the light in a grey day. I long for the unsubtle, full-on blue-sky diamond-clear days.
But they are a daydream at the moment…
I’m with you there, Kate…at the moment it’s “dream on”:)
At last a positive comment about the current grey light. Maybe I should try something similar because it’s all getting a bit much now.
I love spoons, one of my favorite photos still is three spoons tied together with twine.. your single spoon looks lonely:) Love your photography.. as always!
Thanks a lot, Barbara….I think I know that picture of the three spoons.