Cupcake Awesomeness
by Amanda on April 12, 2010
I was supposed to meet him at the bookstore. I made my way through the doors, peering over shelf stacks and bargain tables trying to spot him. He was meandering in the fiction section when he noticed me clutching a box of cupcakes.
Most males would ask if one had been bought for them. Not him. He took one look at the box of cupcakes and instantly made the “camera click” gesture with his fingers. He knows me so well it’s frightening.
Sure, cupcakes are sweet fluffy cake explosions that taste oh so good popped in the mouth, but damn they are made to be photographed. Eating them is just a bonus, right?
I shot these bad boys with my Yashica FX3 camera and Kodak Portra 400NC film. No flash, just natural window light. I was pretty pleased with how they turned out. I’m now offering these prints in the store.
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In case you missed it yesterday, I was interviewed on Shutter Sisters. I’ve been following their photography website for quite some time, so I was honoured to be asked. You can read it here.
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these are so cute! that backdrop is lovely :]
Reading your second paragraph in this post made me smile because I get the same experience quite frequently. Even recently, we went out to dinner and I was so hungry I just wanted to dig in but I stopped myself when I noticed he just sat patiently and didn’t start. He gestured for me to take a photo and I was a little embarrassed: that I didn’t catch myself first and that he knows me so well to remind me.
Have a lovely week!
Thanks Cathie. :)
Lili, hehe they know our habits well.
These cupcakes are adorable. Part of me wants to eat them and part of me just wants to look at them. Such a delicate shape. Cupcakes are my favorite!
Julia
so pretty + delicious looking! the fabric makes a perfect little backdrop, and I love the simple box they were packaged in.
hehe i always have to take a photo before eating cupcakes too. they’re too pretty not to be appreciated
A new cupcake shop opened up on the corner of Flinders Lane in Melbourne last week, and every day since I pass it on my way to the train station and it makes me think of you! (They don’t look quite as delicate as those ones you’ve photographed, though!)
They look beautiful in print and yummy too! Great photography!
Hey! am so glad you stopped by:) your blog is lovely. And so are all your photos!
Thanks for the lovely comments everyone!
haha Kelly, I prefer photographing them to eating them to be honest. Cupcake stores are huge in Sydney and have been for a couple of years- there only seems to be a couple of them here in Vancouver.
In Honor of Design…thank you.
Your writing is just lovely…even more so than these quite adorable cakes :)
Mmmm… Delicious looking photos and cupcakes. :)
My boy is the same way with knowing me and my love of cameras. He told me once he just liked watching me take pictures and my heart did flips.
Oh – I love these Amanda! (Sean told me he ate them – I hope you got some too!)
When you going to start cooking some yourself? ;)
youre right, sometimes i make cupcakes to just take photos of them! love your blog, just brought some yellow tulips, they match my yellowy living room and the sunlight that shines through the windows!
I really enjoyed flicking through this. Think I’m going to look through your other posts!