Foodscapes by Carl Warner

Usually I like to post on recipes but a friend of mine sent me a power point presentation on foodscapes and I felt compelled to share this. Carl Warner created a series of landscape images utilizing basic food ingredients found in a typical kitchen. Carl Warner spends hours in grocery stores looking for the best pieces of broccoli, peppers, fruits etc. to compose the landscape scenes.

To achieve depth and to give a realistic three-dimensional feel to the photographs, each still life is composed on a table measuring 8ft by 4ft. The foreground is only about 2ft across. In addition, photos are taken in stages so the fresh foods do not get wilted or stale before the photo is finished. The photographs will be used for an advertisement campaign for supermarket chain in England. Warner also plans to put these together in a coffee table book to promote healthy eating for children. Here are some of his amazing food pictures.

The road is paved with cumin, peas hang from broccoli trees and cauliflower clouds adorn the sky with bread for mountains.

Balloons made of fruit and legumes, trees of broccoli, rocks of potatoes, fields of corn and peppers, and a town made of cheese with a carrot tower.

This Italian kitchen has many vegetables and pastas. The houses seen through the window are made of cheese.

Houses made of cheese, crates and baskets made of various pastas. The street is made up of legumes, and grains.

Edible ingredients in this Italian-inspired rural scene include a lasagna cart, fields of pasta, a pine nut wall, mozzarella clouds, trees of peppers and chilies and a parmesan village.

The sea on this beach scene at sunset is made up of salmon fillets. The rocks are potatoes and bread. To help complete the scene, a green pea pod acts as small boat.

The Culinary Chase’s Note: The pictures speak for themselves. Brilliant! Mr. Warner is one talented man.