client: Mark McEwan’s Great Food at Home photography: James Tse
food styling : Ruth Gangbar prop styling : Laura Branson pizza: Fontina and White truffle
I’ve had a blast working in Prince Edward County lately with my friend Matt Long, who also happens to be an utterly amazing food photographer, farmer, visionary, and chef.
His enthusiasm for media developement, growing and cooking good food is infectious, and we’ve been collaborating with writer and cooking school owner Cynthia Peters on local stories with [...]
Here are a few shots from Mark McEwan’s first cookbook, Great Food at Home. We’ve completed the photography for his next book, and the anticipation of its release this Fall is once again uncomfortably delicious.
photography by James Tse
food styling by Ruth Gangbar
prop styling by Laura Branson
HornTrip Magazine is “an online spotlight for Prince Edward County’s seed-to-table gastronomy culture, vibrant arts scenes, wellness havens, and green initiatives” . I love what Editor Becky Lane is thoughtfully doing with content and design, offering such a great addition to the blooming-hot media landscape here these days.
Food styling on location at Doug Crowe’s Cromato [...]
Winter needs colour, so I’ve joined forces with Cynthia Peters at her marvelous“From the Farm Cooking School” in Prince Edward County for “Sweet Love Bites”, a cupcake decorating workshop on Sun Feb 13.
food styling Ruth Gangbar photo Mark Burstyn client LCBO
Some deliciously fun things to be demonstrated will be: making chocolate leaves, creating ribbons [...]
James Tse photog
This pic of me pouring champagne for a holiday feature a few summers ago still entertains me….with a tree that only got assembled to the height needed for the crop in the picture. It’s ironic, as I look over to our own little Xmas tree at home today….being it’s just the top part [...]
Adventure is to be expected when food photography goes on location. But add a massive Muskoka snowstorm, hydro blackouts, a large and expensive prop chandelier, very steep, slippery hiking with tons of gear….and you’ve got an episode. Day 1’s lack of running water or hydro for the electric stove was made all the worse for [...]
More samples of images we captured for his premier cookbook project, Mark Mcewan’s Great Food at Home….
I still haven’t seen my copy yet, but the buzz is intriguing.
Launch party this weekend….
photography James Tse food styling Ruth Gangbar prop styling Laura Branson
Hmmm, if the launch wasn’t happening this weekend, it might have been Taste a celebration of regional cuisine [...]
The images below are two options of the well-truffled and famed Bymark Burger ( recipe here). I got to take a bite out of said burger (yes, twas bitten ) while onset with one of my all-time favourite teams of photographer James Tse , Laura Branson prop stylist, and Executive Chef Drew Ellerby (of ONE and Fabbricca) while we [...]
When people think of getting into food styling as a career, would they think of this day’s task as culinary art, or as puppetry? These (and more) fruits and their foliages are being set up as components to be digitally placed into layouts for fruit juice packages.
Photographer Jim Norton does an excellent job of 4-flavoured [...]