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!
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wow…thats one way of getting ur kids to eat vegies
this is awesome! this is my favorite optical illusion website!(i am 2nd to comment:B!)
that is awesome, i want to eat some! i am 2nd to comment:B!
mmmm…. bacon!
..And salami =)
I was glad to see he actually created the scenes, its not just photoshop.
I like the broccoli trees and beach ones the best.
i love all of these but mostly the bacon river with bread as rocks. nice to see someone handmake it rather than using photoshop
thanks for posting this 1 vurdlak
10/10 and 5 *
i feel like im looking at adds for hidden valley ranch…..lol
its cute though, im amazed at how he created these.
wowww. thats something to try at the next buffet im at.
Darn–
I was hungry before, now I’m REALLY hungry, and it’s an hour until lunch….
sweet
Some degree of photoshop must have been used…
Just look at the sky’s. The pieces of ham must have been HUGE! for them to work. I think clever photography was used for the main subject but the sky’s have been photoshopped on.
Pretty good though.
These look totally photoshopped; he’s done an awesome job!
I wonder if he pigs out on it all after the shoot :D
I wonder if this guy did those commercials for Kraft Salad Dressing… the ones where a bunch of vegetables are layed out, and they form a picture, then some salad dressing is poured and it makes a river or clourds or whatever. Heh.
My peeenis is huge (14 inches) yeye
those are some awesome images, great eye-candy!! :D
i wonder how big his grocery bill is………lol
Brilliant…
First thing that sprag to mind as I was viewing these pics though was my mother’s voice…
“Dont play with your food!”
I wonder if he copped the same thing as a kid and this is payback!!! lol
I was so sure that the pictures were all photoshop until the last one!!! Great illusions!!
I feel like I’m still tipsy from
last night. nah ha-ha
Your are great artist, my # 2 site
i look at after my g mail.
love it.
Keep up the art work.
you need to come down to Toronto.
Stay true.
DR.S
Soo cool, from a fan. David Goldsmith (Can I have your number?)
These are so cool!! Like those kraft dressing commercials (if you have any clue what I’m talking about) but more realistic!!
thats amazing
wtf? how did he get the ballons
My wife said this incite very much hungry, ha ha ha… Very nice work, congratulations!
Ahh… delicious art.
more photoshop than props me thinks a lot of the effects are just too obvious
Reminds me about “Salad”, the vegetables Alien designed in 3D by Till Nowak, a german designer.
See http://drgoulu.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/alien-de-legumes/
I really really really like this one…. and I would LOVE to live in MANY of them. Not the meat ones, though….. EEEEWWWW
wow tis verry good wow perfect.ciao
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That was awesome! And yummy too ;)
OH yum!!!!! délicieux.
These are great pictures, even though they do have a bit of photoshop.
See the 12th picture and the last one. You will notice these are the same landscape. Well, the bottom half part of the photograph and the background, had to be taken on a different picture and overlapped after that.
Still these are excellent.
FANTASTIC! I am a converted fan! I wish my wife could present food such nicely on the christmas table! whatever the case I sent the link to several dozen friends in France and they are all amazed. My favorite is the snow scene! Have a merry xmas and a happy and creative new year 2009!
That was awesome! Even though we are only in 5th grade we really like your art work and are inspired!
We are building clay projects out of food so this was great! Isn’t all that food expensive? Please write back! Your new best friends at Denham Oaks Elementary in Lutz, Florida! does.pasco.k12.fl.us
Can we use these images on our website?
Ursula Vernon has a couple of illustrations of unconventional veggies. Not exactly illusions, but not exactly sane, either.
“While closely related to elephant garlic, mammoth garlic is shaggier and has much more dramatic tusks…”
Bighorn Pears
Mammoth Garlic
I think the most brilliant use of food among these was the one where he used fillets of salmon to make the surface of the lake. The moistness of the salmon made the lake surface shimmer so realistically and the orange-pink color of salmon matching the color of a sunset on water! Brilliant! (Not to mention the natural white slanted lines salmon has that perfectly mimics the motion of the water!) Again I say, BRILLIANT!
they have those on the place mats in toby carvery!
awsome! love the brocoli one !!! love this site keep sending us more ! x
Wonderful~
keep sending us more
the idea is brilliant, personally I like , but it will be interesting to see something like human model from inside: broccoli looks so similar to lungs and red paprika or tomato can take place of the heart…?
Friggin awesometastic…
Are Carl Warner’s Foodscapes available for purchase… Truly beyond a work of art!
Legumes — a class of vegetables that includes beans, peas and lentils — are among the most versatile and nutritious foods available. Legumes are typically low in fat, contain no cholesterol, and are high in folate, potassium, iron and magnesium. They also contain beneficial fats and soluble and insoluble fiber. A good source of protein, legumes can be a healthy substitute for meat, which has more fat and cholesterol.
If you want to add more beans and other legumes to your diet, but you aren’t clear about what’s available and how to prepare them, this guide can help.
Wow, i love this. That’s perfect! :D
You are a Classic, who would have ever thought to do such great photos or Pictures or what ever you want to call them they are great awsome wow, i would hang those in my home, you are the best congratulation to you.
Love all the veggie creations. Don’t like the meat ones……..yes I’m a vegetarian!!!! No one has to convience me that veggies are the best!
Thanks, made hungry again, in a good way (seriously)