June 2, 2008 by Vurdlak with 61 Comments
At first glance, these images look like painted landscapes, including towering hills, mad sea and stormy weather in the background. However, if you look a little more closely you will see that the sea and storm were made of cabbage, in other photo trees are broccoli and the hills are baked potatoes. These aren’t paintings but true photos! Also everything you can see in the photograph is made of real food! Pictures were photographed by Carl Warner, a photographer who works in London, and who made specialty of these food landscapes or how I like to call them – ‘foodscapes‘. In recent years he has been commissioned by many advertising agencies throughout Europe to produce his distinctive images for clients in the food industry. Each scene is photographed in layers from foreground to background.
The process is very time consuming, and so the food quickly wilts under the lights. Carl originally began his career by going to art college, and thought he might become an illustrator since he had a talent for drawing. However he discovered that he really enjoyed photography as a fast and exciting medium to work in.
Carl says “I tend to draw a very conventional landscape as I need to fool the viewer into thinking it is a real scene at first glance. It is the realization of what the real ingredients are that brings a smile, and for me that’s the best part.” These images can take two or three days to build and photograph, with a couple more days spent retouching and fine tuning the images to blend all the elements together. Carl devotes a lot of time to planning each image before he starts shooting, and he spends a lot of time staring at vegetables in supermarkets, which can make him seem a little odd!
(28 votes)
Like OMG that is soo cool, i love the great artistic work. Like OMG
oh my gosh. that’s awesome!!!!!!!!!!
That makes me want to eat junk food!!!
some of them look like the fields in the hidden valley ranch commercials
it is really cool , im takin art for GCSEs course and i hope i get to do something like this.
wow, thats so awsome, all those animals that were killed for that meat ended up being killed so a guy can shoot a crazy photo. Will he tag them with ‘5 animals were killed in the making of these images’? I guess it doesnt matter right, theyre just animals.
beautiful what is the first one made of
“wu la says:
February 16, 2010 at 4:07 pm
wow, thats so awsome, all those animals that were killed for that meat ended up being killed so a guy can shoot a crazy photo. Will he tag them with ‘5 animals were killed in the making of these images’? I guess it doesnt matter right, theyre just animals.”
Well, someone is a little crazy. And yes they are JUST ANIMALS they were already dead and would have been eaten anyways… But other then that, these are amazing! This guy has a very creative mind.
TBH, i didnt believe it until i saw the last picture, then i was like OMG!!!
River of Beacon
yummmm! food art XP