The clever stylings of these culinary masters feature witty arrangements and subtle humor that will make you smile. Commercial food photographers Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida have been developing their playfully miniature series since 2002. Entitled Minimiam—a blend of the words "miniature" and "miam" (yummy in French)—the project documents the lives of tiny toy people set against delightfully delicious backdrops. From snowy meringue fields to a doughnut golf course, the edible landscapes tell entertaining stories of work, play, leisure, and adventure. The creative duo say, "We’re both food photographer in our daily work, and we’re both quite crazy about cooking, eating and everything about food. So when we started this small people series, naturally we created the stories related to the food.”
READ MORE... Photographer Kimmo Kuloveski took this incredible photo on New Year's Eve, simply calling it Explosive New Year 2014. There was no explanation, just a dazzling photo of fireworks flying everywhere. "The firework shot was taken just after midnight in Herttoniemi, Helsinki, Finland," Kuloveski tells us. "The scene is actually very close to where I live, since I only popped out for half an hour around midnight on New Year's due to bad weather, as one Flickr commenter pointed out, you can even see how windy it is by looking at the light trails in the photo.
"I deliberately omitted details about the situation from the photo's description to let people try and figure out what's going on. So, spoiler alert: What you see is basically a firework's misfire where it blew up on the ground instead of taking off into the sky. (No one was injured, and it might even have been a deliberate prank by the young men firing it - it happened twice during the 15 minutes I was there.) "The exposure time for the photo is 2 seconds, which I had pre-set on my camera for regular photos of fireworks. Many viewers have speculated that the exposure would be a much longer one of many separate explosions, but that's just the fractal-like nature of fireworks and explosions - against a featureless background you can't really tell the size and scale of what you're seeing. So almost all those different lights are just parts of the same firework, and the result is a combination of luck and timing." Kimmo Kuloveski's Flickr Italian photographer Francesco Paleari merges portrait and landscape photography for his series titled Profili di Milano (Profiles of Milan). The beautiful black and white images present a myriad of Milanese architecture and landscapes within the silhouetted profiles of the city's residents. Each portrait is both dramatic and serene, offering a unique look at a historically and artistically rich city and its people. It brings us great pleasure to announce that we've carefully selected seven of Paleari's beautiful photos and they are now available as prints and canvases through our art store, My Modern Shop.
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February 2014
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