Oregano & Cherries
October 2010 · Feast series
The pairing was accidental. I was shooting dried herbs — a series of still life frames with single ingredients, the kind that run in the back pages of food magazines — and I had a small bowl of late-season cherries on the same surface. The colour contrast was immediate: the dusty grey-green of the oregano against the deep red of the cherries. I moved the cherries into the frame and left them there.
This is the kind of image that comes from having a camera out and staying open to what's in the room. Not something I could have planned. The marble surface was the right choice — cool, uncoloured, letting both the herb and the fruit read clearly without fighting a background with its own agenda.
Part of the Feast series. The Southern Delicious photoblog entry and the All Sanity Depends on This post are from a similar area of the food work. Prints available at the prints page; the full portfolio overview and work page have more context.