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TEA & ME

'Don't play with your food' is a popular line with many parents and educators. Of course, it's also the opposite of what children love to do. In fact, children love to play with almost anything. That's one of the loveliest things about childhood. The ability to turn anything into play.

As we grow older, play is slowly talked out of us. We learn to behave. To eat our vegetables because they're good for us. To leave the pasta alphabet in the broth alone. To drink without slurping and to stop pitting the peas against each other in endless races around the plate. Food becomes respectable. It nourishes and it may please, but no longer does it amuse.

Playing with our food, then, can become a tiny act of rebellion. A way to tell time to go take a hike and turn back the hands of the clock. One of my favourite ways of playing with food as an adult is to explore its many angles under a camera lens. The photo above is a self-portrait dating from a few years back. I was having a cup of tea and suddenly decided to experiment. To see how else I could enjoy it other than just drinking it.

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GEOMET(R)EA

I've always been keen on playing with reflections in liquids, which feels like a similar exercise to the one of photographing shadows on walls. It doesn't have to be a human face either. Geometric patterns, like the one above, also on (old) tea, can be just as fun.

If, like me, you enjoy finding new ways of looking at your food through a camera lens, I would love to see your photos, so please feel free to share below links to your posts on Yoors that relate to fun food photography. As always, thank you so much for reading!

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