Twin City Photos

For the longest time I’ve been trying to get some images of food. Sounds easy but it is anything but. Sure, anyone can take snapshots of food, even set up some lights or flashes, nicely balanced lighting, brilliant colors, etc., but in the end you pretty much end up with, well, a food picture. An image on the other hand should convey something besides displaying food. A mood, a setting, anything but just a food picture. At a minimum it should make you go ‘yum’. Therein lies the challenge. I’m a long ways from that point, but I’ll keep trying.

If you want to see some great images of food, swing by Sopheava de Lumiere’s website. Her food photography (as is the rest of her work) is fantastic.

First burger of the season, meaning cooked on my backyard barbecue. Normally my barbecue will catch fire in early spring from all the greases that accumulate throughout winter. I just let it burn off.

OK no pretense of any photographic value here, just snapshots of some of the food we enjoyed in Germany earlier this week. I admit I’m fixated on food sometimes, like when I travel, and have been known to turn in pictures of food with my expense reports. Good food is one of the pleasures of life, isn’t it? Ok, back to the subject at hand.

First item is Schweinehaxen Braten. or in english pork knuckle roast (there’s also one cow knuckle roast on the plate). I could never have imagined myself eating something like that, but since this is a Bavarian specialty I had to try. And man was it good! I skipped the skin, but what was to be found underneath was like cross between bacon and pork roast cooked to perfection, hidden between bones. There were lots of mmmms and aahhs among the five of us as we congratulated ourselves for having selected such a fine place to eat at. And how do they cook it? Well, on a rotisserie of course!

Next shot is a Wurst plate with sauerkraut and mashed potatoes, another winner. Final shot is duck and chicken, another meal that got rave reviews by one of my colleagues. There were many other delicious meals, Wiener Schnitzel, Sauerbraten, salads, red cabbage, but didn’t get any shots of those. We were just to anxious to start eating. The only thing no one seemed to warm up to were Knödels. I never really like them as a kid, and still don’t.

Hope you don’t mind the indulgence in food here. I’d forgotten just how good German food is. Of course I’m biased too :) And just for the heck of it, let me throw in some beer shots. BTW, some of these photos were taken by my colleague Peter C. Thanks Peter.