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I love a pie!

Two books published last month which I have worked on, the first is "The Pie Book" a hearty book by Dorling Kindersley on Pies, savoury and sweet. Some lovely Pie recipes and yes I had to try most of them.
This is the second book of  photographing the recipes of writer Caroline Bretherton, the first being the Allotment Cookbook, which I also enjoyed working on. Taking pictures of pies is essentially photographing big round things! Thankfully caroline's recipes had a good selection on classic and new, visually lovely.
The publisher also had a clear vision of the look and style of the book. Dare I say "rustic", well, country kitchen might be a safer way of describing the overall look of the pictures. Thanks goes to Kathryn Wilding and those at DK for designing a great looking book. I took the opportunity to go a bit  "moody" with the lighting with inspirational Art direction shared By Nicky Collings and Kat Mead, who both perfectly pitched the pictures, as all ways.
The food was cooked by Jane Lawrie and Rosie Reynolds, both who I love working with and produced some  perfect Pies .
A big nod to the Prop stylist Wei Tang who has an amazing sense of colour she captures the vision of the client and then adds her magic touch!
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