I’ve wanted to share some of the photography and styling from my cookbook with my readers for quite some time and so, thought today should be the day I do so. As I said in my ‘Behind the Scenes’ post, I wanted the photography and styling to be very casual and relaxed because in essence, that is the style of my food. I decided to use only very necessary props and to select them carefully as I have a tendency to ‘over-clutter’ my shots when I try to use too many props. I wanted the focus to be fully on the food. When it came to the actual styling of the…
Simply Delicious
A general food and cooking blog. I like to experiment and try all different types of cuisine and I have a passion for food photography and styling.
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So, I promised you a little look into the behind the scenes of the making of my cookbook and here it is. I decided to do this post to allow you, my loyal readers, a little look into what it takes to create a cookbook. This is a bit of a lengthy post so I would suggest you get yourself a cup of tea and read it when you have a bit of time to spare. Because I did all the cooking, shooting, styling and writing myself, I completely enveloped myself in the process and learned such an enormous amount in the 4 months it took to put together this…
I’m so very excited to be sharing my cookbook covers with you… finally! As the book will be available in English & Afrikaans we decided on going for two different covers and I have to say, I am in love with both. Funny enough, neither of these photos were planned as cover shots. They were simply photos I took to accompany the recipes inside the book and actually had a different shot planned for the cover but at the end, these just worked so much better. I can’t believe that it’s only a few weeks before my book is available for purchase. So, what do you think? Next…
If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook you’ll know that I shared some very (read: VERY VERY VERY) exciting news late last year. Before I get to that news here, on my blog, however, I need to start at the beginning. I started my blog two and a half years ago when my twins were about 10/11 months. I was a stay-at-home-mom who had been a make-up and hair artist before I fell pregnant and had to stop working/studying due to being pregnant with twins (standing 12 hours a day is not exactly healthy when you are carrying twins). My blog was a way to not only share my…
