Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman
Long enamored of black and white, my wife and collaborator has been working on a series of food shots featuring not food so much as the color of food. If you like her work, let her know or have a look at her gallery at ruhlmanphotography.com.
Update: In response to a comment below, Donna says she can make available reasonably priced 11×14 prints of this photo or any of her shots on her site. Email her there or send me an email via the above contact tab, and one of us will get back to you next week.
I’m on vacation from now until Monday, April 4. Until then, check back in here every other weekday for another of Donna’s photos.
As ever, I’m grateful to all who come to this site, especially those who comment and keep the conversation lively! Thank you!
Want more food writing?
- Dianne Jacob I do a fun Q&A about cooking apps over at her blog, Will Write For Food.
- For deep forays into the world of professional cooking, my “Of A Chef” series, The Making of a Chef, The Soul of a Chef, andThe Reach of a Chef.
- My opinionated essays on the basics of cooking and an equally opinionated dictionary of cooking terms: The Elements of Cooking, a steal for under $6!
- A book that teaches the basics of cooking using proportions of ingredients rather than set amounts: Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking (it’s also a smart Phone App, watch the Ratio App video demo.
- A lot of readers aren’t aware that I’ve written four general (non-food) non-fiction books: Walk On Water, about a surgical team that repairs complex congenital heart disease, a brutal, fascinating sometimes tragic account of fixing children’s malformed hearts; Wooden Boats, about a boatyard on Martha’s Vineyard and the people who build and sail plank-on-frame vessels, House: A Memoir, about buying a run-down, century-old house in one of America’s first streetcar suburbs, reflections on the importance of houses, homes, and living in a single place in our era of vagabondage; and Boys Themselves, a school story, a year at an all-boys school that is defiantly pro-single sex for boys.
Happy cooking, everyone!
© 2011 Michael Ruhlman. Photo © 2011 Donna Turner-Ruhlman. All rights
Love it! And now I want a kumquat.
I really like your work. The focal point of this image seems to be the kumquat, is there a reason it’s backlit? Because of how much lighter it is, my eye gets drawn to the back of the image, which is less visually interesting than the front.
This is a creative shot and I like the subject matter. I would have to agree with Ben, the lighting is very interesting.
Donna, all of your pictures are amazing, thank you for posting them.
I have phone and computer backgrounds for a long time now.
Beautiful! I have a basket of kumquats on my kitchen counter that are slated to meet their jammy destiny today.
Looking again I agree with Ben too. I’ve been playing around with lighting from underneath through glass which makes things transparent and is a strong back light. Then—using a weak front light to create contrast and silhouettes the outline of shapes like the teeth of the claw. I probably should have cropped more off the top of the image so the eyes wouldn’t travel up and away from the teeth of the center—sigh . . . shoot and learn . . . and keep doing it.
Thanks everyone. Donna
I am so enjoying your photographs. They are just so lovely.
I find this photo whimsical, especially with the crab claw in the front. The lighting is fun, and I’m glad you didn’t crop it. I like the various shades of color. Hope you are enjoying your photos being posted.
A very delicious-looking photograph!
know that is nice. beautiful picture! thanks
Cracked up when watching No Reservations – when Bourdain’s in Cleveland to visit that Japanese chef — and he says “Ruhlman!!!”
I love the pics. I have a complaint. Recently this site has begun redirecting my iPad to the mobile site. Even if I click go to regular site, it redirects again to mobile site. This sucks and I hope can be corrected.
thx for the heads up. will look into and try to fix. appreciate it.
I just love the WORD ‘kumquat.’