Monday 7 May 2012

MACAROON MADNESS

I'm often amazed at where inspiration comes from - sometimes the most unremarkable object can lead to an entire series of art works.  While at my favourite farm shop last week I was seduced by a little box of the most beautifully coloured macaroons - raspberry pinks, pistachio greens, creamy whites, chocolate browns and soft inky blues.  
As far as a packet of biscuits goes they were grossly overpriced, tasted of nothing in particular and were too dry and crumbly BUT they were beautiful and I felt a photo coming on - or should I say several!   


  




I am linking this to Color Me Weekly and Mosaic Monday (Little Red House).  Why not hit the links on the right and visit them for some wonderful inspiration.

17 comments:

  1. Beautiful pastel shades - worth buying for the pics, as you say!

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  2. Oh gosh Diana another set of beautiful prints.
    I don't like macaroons but they do look fantastic.
    Lynn x
    One I Made Earlier Today

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  3. They look beautiful... I love the colours.

    I've never had a macaroon! Does your favourite farm shop begin with a K btw?

    Have a great BH Monday:)

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  4. Lovely colors and the macaroon look delicious. Have a Happy Week ahead.

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  5. I love your color pallet picture! I really like that it kind of looks like a painting.

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  6. seduced has to be the right word for these . . . .I don't think I could bring myself to eat one, your photos are beautiful!

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  7. You're right - the colors are beautiful and so was your presentatiion of them.

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  8. The colours are so pretty, and I love the way you played with the macarons and made them into works of art.

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  9. Gasp! they might not have tasted great but sure made up for it in the photographs - you did so well capturing their beauty.

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  10. What gorgeous pictures. Leave it to you to think to photograph them... There's a bakery in Yountville (Napa Valley)called Bouchon (very famous and tiny = long lines, but worth it). They always have the top shelf full of gorgeous macaroons like that, at least a dozen of them in various colors - but these ones taste delicious. They're $3.50 each, something ridiculous like that, but it never ocurred to me to photograph them...

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  11. Love, love, love these and everyone is making me so hungry this morning~

    A blogging friend recently suggested that I drop the Word Verification and since you control what gets published, you still get Spam checks, it works so much easier without it

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  12. The photos are gorgeous and the cookies look so yummy.

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  13. Oh...I love macarons ! Your photos are lovely, beautiful !

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  14. I love macarons, too! Beautiful images - I especially love that last one.

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  15. Gorgeous... Very imaginative. Like you, I adore the colours. I especially like the "shattered" images through the cut glass - jewel-like! Beautiful photos. It's really good to look around us and find inspiration in ordinary things - so many people miss so much beauty through simply not opening their eyes!

    Shoshi

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