Feathers and cameras

I am sitting in Brew bar cafe enjoying an aeropress coffee as I write about my day on a photo shot.
Back in November John Lynch asked me if I would like to do some food photography for a competition. I jumped at the chance todo something different. We put are thinking caps on as what food todo. We set on a theme of fork to plate and wanted to do mushrooms, sadly a few weeks to late for wild mushrooms. So thinking colours and season pheasant was decided as a great choice.
A week later I had sources the birds from John at Crossgar foods, many thanks John.
We needed to think of what to serve with it so a look in the garden and there was dark red beetroot and a healthy bunch of kale.
For a starter I settled for a favorite of mine goats cheese tart with carmalized red onions.
For the dessert a lemon tart, I normally make lemon curd tarts but this time settled on a proper baked lemon tart no short cuts.

The next step was finding props for the photos, John scoured the local charity shops and took a trip to see @mattpottery.
I looked out my stuff and planned the menu thinking more of look than I normally do.

So early on a Friday morning we started, I headed to John's house with my knives, blow tourch and other kit. Not forgeting the ingredients, and my shooting jacket.

Recipes and more about the day in a few days time.