Photo Ewen 📷May 10, 2024

Daylesford workshop is underway. Full house and loads of photography this weekend. Delicious and bokehlicious!

Shellie is the rock star of the weekend though. She makes the magic happen :)

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Food Photography Workshop

One day is not nearly enough to lock down new skills and step forward on your creative path to better food photography. So we run our workshop across 4-days. More time to ask the big and little questions. More time to explore the technical and creative. More time to practise your new skills and explore new horizons. All while enjoying a farmhouse settings in rural Victoria to the north of Melbourne. Since 2012 Shellie and Ewen have been helping very intimate groups gain confidence and skills, and learn to love food photography. Your journey is unique, so your path forward will be unique too. When you join our workshop there's room to enjoy the company of like-minded souls, but still focus intently on learning the skills that will make your photography extra delicious.

Photography by Ewen Bell
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We go all in on the bokeh. Go hard or go home. #BokehLove #Bokehlicious #Photography #Sigma50mm F1.2
Show threadPhoto Ewen 📷May 13, 2024

Just got home. 4 days of running the workshop. Weeks of setting up for it. These events are marathons and we're always exhausted at the end.

But the upside is that for 6 lucky people we get to share a tonne of lovely moments, some good advice and help them find some confidence with the camera.

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Tale of two tomatoes.

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At the last light of day we met up with some of the local piglets. They love a camera lens. I hold it down low and they come up close to say hello. A lens looks a bit like a snout maybe :)

Forgot to mention earlier, these images captured with the new 50mm F1.2 by Sigma. Love this little lens!

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May 13, 2024 at 10:39amWeb
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Kanelbulle with Shellie.

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Easily my favie moment of the workshop. Load everyone up with maple syrup and coffee at brekkie then rummage through the prints from the weekend and celebrate with a group shot.

There is nothing quite like being a part of people takimg a step closer to reaching their goals.

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@ewen
Few show this brutal truth. But it is both.
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@EllieK

Humans impact nature in many ways. We destroy habitat for farming, housing, mining, profit, etc. We consume physical habitat just as we consume meat or grains.

In this particular instance the farmers are dedicated to ethical pork. How the animals are treated is important to them. Visibility about the lives of the pigs is important.

It's a small change, in a much bigger picture. Where our food comes from is so important.

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@ewen
We used to raise all our own animals for food (pigs, cows, chickens, rabbits, ducks, geese sheep) and they lived the best lives possible, outdoors in France. But when we came to kill them, they knew. They knew. They didn't want to die. But that seemed okay, we kept eating them, but in the end we got sick and it wasn't until we stopped eating dead animals that we got good health.
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@EllieK

I do think it's possible to have a future where humans don't have to eat animals to survive. But, I also think our presence on the planet is so utterly consumptive that ultimately we will destroy everything anyway.

Driving home from the workshop yesterday we passed new housing developments going up, over the top of prime farmland that used to be growing vegetables and grain.

It's not that humans cannot live sustainably, it's just not in our nature however. We consume everything.