Tabletops
It’s no great secret: I like tabletops the very best. Tabletop photography is my favourite kind, over landscapes or portraits or fashion or anything else done behind a camera lens. Something about a birds-eye view and prettily scattered items across a surface makes me shiver.
I’ve had a lump stuck deep in my throat all afternoon, since I came across Jennifer Causey’s Simply Breakfast. She photographs tabletops of her breakfasts each morning. But more, really: she somehow encapsulates everything beautiful about living. There’s a sense of simple serenity in her images of eggs and toast and oatmeal and fruit spread on worn-wood tables with juice and mugs of warm liquid and dishcloths. I’ve shared a few images here, but it’s easy to lose yourself page after page in her archives of perfectly curated (but somehow unadorned) breakfasts.
It’s exactly how I want all my days to begin.
Part of it is just the reassurance that somewhere, someone sits down every day to a deliberately prepared breakfast. That’s something increasingly lost in the shuffle of our fast-paced urban lives. I know I almost never sit down to an actual breakfast, although I almost always make breakfast–but it’s something to be consumed in bites as I meander through the morning’s blog posts or watch the recorded episode of The Colbert Report. Breakfast has become a sideline instead of the main event; and being the unassuming, most peaceful of the day’s meals, it hasn’t done much to stand up for itself.
have you been to this blog: http://mywhitetable.blogspot.com/
it’s simple and doesn’t always showcase food but it’s lovely nonetheless.
Have you been to perfectbound (http://www.flickr.com/photos/perfectbound/ and http://perfectboundstudio.blogspot.com/)? They put together many lovely tabletops, among other things.
Ben: yes, it’s so true. Breakfast is perhaps my very favourite meal, so why is it always oatmeal in front of the computer screen? I make time for a proper dinner … seems I should also start my day somewhat-leisurely.
Lan and Jax: I hadn’t visited either of those sites, but oh my! and thank you both for sharing.