I have been shooting a lovely project for the Kew Garden Cookbook with two lovely ladies from Kew, Gina & Lydia and Jenny Linford a food book author on over 20 cook books, many of which we have in our kitchens.
I have been shooting mainly in London but several ingredients were shot at home use my flagstones around the house and stables.
I always like looking at the humble background of how a shot was taken, the old bits of wood holding backgrounds up etc. In this case the pumpkins stood up perfectly balanced by themselves and were still there the following day despite the gales, before being wheel-barrowed off to our lane annual charity for Cancer Research.
Our little winding country lane in Sussex grows about 350-500 pumpkins and about 200 chillies every year with all proceeds going to Cancer Research. We all have friends and family who have lost lives to cancer so it’s nice being able to give back.