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Lara has put out a call via the latest Still Life With... theme for inspiration. Or rather she asks which photographer, image or other visual stimulant inspires in your own photography. For me it was easy - the images in Nigel Slater's The Kitchen Diaries.

The combination of subdued colour and simplicity, of a grainy quality (emphasised by the paper they are printed on perhaps) and of a 'real life feeling' is what I am trying to capture in my food and wine images. They don't appear fussed around with by a stylist but rather seem to have come direct from the kitchen. The photographer is Jonathan Lovekin whose images also accompany Nigel's recipes in the Observer and Observer Food Monthly.

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'Replicate' is not quite the right word to explain my own endeavours in comparing with Lovekin's images. I try and use a simple range of colours and fill the frame, A piece of slate and a well worn chopping board appear often. The use of light is specific. Lara's photographs for example are bright and airy, often with bleached out backgrounds (example), mine more subdued. That is the intention anyway!

Some more examples - a mushroom, a peach scone and Sea Salt Caramels. My favourite images have a page of their own on Spittoon.

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This is incredibly beautiful. You've inspired me to go to my studio today. Thank you.

I love your photos. If I ever come into a lot of money, a new camera is top of my list (after that, a big bag of talent is required).

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