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Photography holiday in the Vendée for food lovers …..Oct 11-14
October is a good time to be in the Sud Vendée, a comparatively little known part of France, where I have been contentedly living for the last 20 years. The weather will be warm and nature will be starting to … Continue reading
Posted in 2018, Autumn, Cooking, Digital photography, France, French countryside, Landscapes, Landscapes, Markets, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Photoshop, Still life, swimming pool, Uncategorized, Vendee, Wine
Tagged Big in France, Courses, digital photography, food, food photographers, Food photography courses, Forest of Mervent, France, Holiday, landscapes, learn about photography, misty morning, natural beauty, nature, outdoors, photographic media, Photography, Photography course, Photography holiday, red wine, restaurants, Roger Stowell Photographer, social networking, travel, vacation, Vendee
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the damp patch…
Days of wind and rain make the passing of those glorious summer days of wine and roses all the harder to bear. Each year my expectations of a gentle transition from sunshine to mellow fruitfulness, born of some atavistic memory, … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Art photography, Autumn, clams, coques, crab, Crayfish, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Emotion, Excellence, Excess, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, langoustines, Mussels, oysters, Photographic Prints, Photography, prawns, scallops, sea urchins, seafood, Sex, Uncategorized, vongole, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, cooking, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, knee trembler, palate, Photography, Plateau de fruits de mer, sea food, sexy food, simple logic, social networking, woody Allen, writing
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A pair of fruitscapes from Roger Stowell’s Print Store
Two very different views of an autumnal pear from the Print Store…looking as good on the wall as on the tree Check out this page for more print ideas.
Posted in 2014, Art photography, Autumn, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Pears, Photographic Prints, Photography, photography course, Presents, Prints, Still life, Xmas Presents
Tagged art, Christmas Present, clear thinking, digital photography, food, Food photographer, Photographic Prints, Photography, Photography course, Print Store, writing
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Brussels demand a green Xmas…..
September is long gone, but the leaves of brown show no sign of tumbling down this November although the lyricist would be happy to know that it’s raining. Wherever he was when he penned those lyrics, it wasn’t the Vendee. … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Autumn, Childhood memories, Christmas, Cooking, Digital photography, Excellence, fashion, fireplace, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Humour, hypocrisy, Illusion, Kitchens, Landscapes, Olive oil, Photography, Religion, sea salt, The Forest of Mervent, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Vendee, Weather, Writing
Tagged bah humbug, Brussels sprouts, Christmas, clear thinking, cooking, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, landscapes, marketing, natural beauty, outdoors, puy lentils, Recipes, sweet potato, Torquemada, Toulouse sausages, Vendee, writing, zeitgeist
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It could so easily have become a crock…..
“Nuts” I said to myself “my chances of photographing that rainbow are fat and none”. As I ran upstairs to grab the camera I caught sight of the carrier bag full of walnuts which two of our grandchildren had collected … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Autumn, baking, Cooking, Digital photography, fireplace, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Garden, Humour, Kitchens, Landscapes, Nuts, Pears, Photography, Rainbow, tarte tatin, tarte tatin aux poires, Uncategorized, walnuts, Weather, Writing
Tagged apprehension, burning sugar, cooking, Crock of gold, End of the rainbow, Fireside, pear and walnut tatin, Rainbow, Walnuts
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Parmesan, bread and oil…
As the year moves relentlessly forward, signs of the ineluctable change of season make themselves known. The leaves begin to fall, and I begin to chop and saw wood. It would be untrue to say that I look forward to … Continue reading
Posted in Autumn, bread, Cheese, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Garden, lifestyle, Parmesan, Photography, Seasons, Uncategorized, Weather, Writing
Tagged Autumn colours, clear thinking, digital photography, food, Food photographer, food photographers, harbinger, natural beauty, nature, outdoors, Parmesan cheese, Photography, Stacking firewood, winter, Woodpile, writing
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It is a far, far better thing that I eat now……
There is a smokiness in the air that is sending me the clear message that it’s time to start bringing in fire wood. A mountain of good, dry wood has been delivered and all that remains to be done is … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Autumn, Cream, desserts, Digital photography, Emotion, Excellence, Expectation, figs, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, harmony, Humour, Nuts, Photography, Seasons, Uncategorized, walnuts, Writing
Tagged Autumn, camel's back, chalk and cheese, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, Fire wood, Food photographer, France, Humour, literature, Lothario, misty morning, nature, outdoors, Photography course, Plight my troth, Roving eye, Stoicism, Sydney Carton, The First Cut is the Deepest, Wood burner, Wood cutting, writing, yeoman
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Last summer whine..
The silence after the hubbub of Sunday lunch is like the white noise that fills the brain as a general anaesthetic takes effect. There’s a mixture of narcotic pleasure in the cushioned lushness of the collapse from consciousness, combined with … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Apricot jam, apricots, Autumn, Baking, Cheese, Chicken, Cooking, Digital photography, Emotion, family, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Fruit, Kitchens, Olive oil, Parmesan, Photography, Poultry, sea salt, Sunday, Sunday lunch, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged anaesthetic, Annie Bell, Comte Entre Deux, Family, friends, parmesan, poaching liquid, Sunday lunch, The Beadle
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Food, Photography & France 