Vegan food series.

I wanted to continue my cyanotype's but it has not been very sunny, i think it is something i will go back to ether for my photography unit, as i had a few ideas, Or i could keep it for future units.

Recently i have been living a vegan lifestyle and after i little slip up over the last month, i decided to get back on it. I thought about it and i wanted to do another series on something that i feel passionately about. Eating vegan food is my lifestyle and therefor is my world and my view.

One question i hear all the time, that really annoys me, is " If you vegan, what do you eat?". It is ether i genuine question, or a question that the person asking, dose not want an answer too. Before i was looking at macro photography, i really liked that as i enjoy the detail you get in a macro lens, but when i was at the Haining i really liked the panoramic images i could take on my phone, this got me thinking could i do macro panoramic photography? I looked it up but i could not find anything. So i decided to give it a go and try and answer what do i eat?

I really like the texture and strong colours in fruit and vegetables. For a vegan diet fruit and veg is a staple food so i decided to start there as i usually eat fruit for my breakfast.

pomegranate

The pomegranate is more solid but i think that works well with the seed to the right of the image and you can see how water dense the fruit is. I like how pure fruit is and clean looking. I really like the way these turned out, the banana turned out well as i can see all the groves in the banana and i like the silver tones, i like the way the panoramic camera has cut the image up i think it gives a good textural feel for the way the fruit looks in the flesh and when you eat it.

Banana

Dates & walnuts

The inside of dates has always looked really nice to me, like thread, again i kept it quit solid by keeping my hand steady as i moved it over the food, but the walnuts i made quite chopping to try and capture that crunch. I want to continue by chopping up some veg i really wanted to think about getting the feel for the food in the image, how it tastes and feels in real life. so i will work on that over the next few days. but i am excited to see how this progresses.

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