Thursday 09.10.09

blissful inspiration

Brace yourself friends — this is a lengthy one.  For those of you who don’t know me, I have a thing for taking pictures.  I especially love taking pictures of pretty bowls full of pretty things.  I am also drawn to photographs of bowls taken by others.  To me, it is sweet that something so simple can be so beautiful.  Which is particularly important to a photographer like me; I believe, that often times my greatest hurdle is over thinking — a lovely bowl and a camera is all one needs to create a masterpiece.

Picture 13~heather smith jones

Picture 3~minkoff

2380932122_8423c6888c~danske

1019242393_9ee11a10c8~threelayercake

Picture 5~berta

Picture 10~susannah conway

3882248457_1089fd64a6~blissful images, me

Picture 6~*cinnamon

20090122013551~girlhula

3230109296_c737c06f48~kimdimsunshine

Picture 8~cosi!

Picture 7

~perfectbound

Picture 9

~m a v

I hope this post inspires you to do just that — grab a camera (preferably your own), a bowl, something interesting and snap away.  Link to your bowl shots, I would love to see what you come up with.  Until next week — xo mrs. french

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19 Comments

  1. Posted September 10, 2009 at 10:25 am | Permalink

    me too! sigh. i could look at lovely bowls of lovelies all day. i am officially inspired.

  2. Posted September 10, 2009 at 10:35 am | Permalink

    i love getting fresh food from the farmers market and shooting it in simplicity on my kitchen table. (it helps having wonderful afternoon window lighting) Some yellow plums I shot for a blog of the non-profit i work for: http://ohioeatwiththeseason.blogspot.com/2009/08/yellow-plum.html

  3. Posted September 10, 2009 at 11:02 am | Permalink

    I love bowls too. I also love Thai and Balinese flower bowls that they put infront of their doors, full of different Frangipanies. I posted one of them on my blog http://fensismensi.blog.siol.net/files/2009/06/img_4799.jpg
    I just couldn’t have enough of them and I made about hundret photos :)

    and my bowl heaven http://cannelle-vanille.blogspot.com/ :)

  4. Posted September 10, 2009 at 11:13 am | Permalink

    I am a big “bowl-lover” too!
    I love them empty, I love them filled, I love them dirty, and love them clean, too.

    …and chairs.

  5. Posted September 10, 2009 at 12:08 pm | Permalink

    wonderful colours – pass the raspberries

  6. Teri
    Posted September 10, 2009 at 12:52 pm | Permalink

    You are always a great inspiration! I just started photography classes this week partially due to your inspirational photos! Thank you! These are beautiful! I have a ways to go!

  7. Posted September 10, 2009 at 1:29 pm | Permalink

    I took some photos of homemade mayonnaise yesterday- it was so beautiful! What an amazing color of olivey yellow. But nothing can compete with a bowl full of flowers floating in water.

  8. Posted September 10, 2009 at 2:03 pm | Permalink

    So incredibly beautiful……I love them all!
    xo
    Melis

  9. Posted September 10, 2009 at 2:17 pm | Permalink

    I adore the first one! It’s so barren…yet so bright! I just realized I have the same Polaroid you have featured in your header. :)

  10. Posted September 10, 2009 at 3:14 pm | Permalink

    This reaffirms the truth behind designs. The best inspirations usually come from things right beside us.

  11. Posted September 10, 2009 at 5:59 pm | Permalink

    Here’s a bowl shot I took earlier this summer. I have the flu or I’d take a new bowl picture for you.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessnichols/3908468614/

    There is nothing quite like summer produce!

  12. Posted September 10, 2009 at 6:21 pm | Permalink

    love the photos!! but it made me hungry for fresh fruit and homemade ice cream.

  13. Posted September 11, 2009 at 4:37 am | Permalink

    what beautiful photos!
    mm, raspberries!

  14. Posted September 11, 2009 at 5:22 am | Permalink

    I confess – I have a bit of a bowl fetish myself. Marvelous images! Than you for sharing them with us.

  15. Posted September 11, 2009 at 6:57 am | Permalink

    While I have lots of decorative bowls in my house, it never dawned on me to photograph them. This one I grabbed after reading this post:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/phoeknits/3909765974/

    Truly inspiring!

  16. Barbara S.
    Posted September 11, 2009 at 8:42 am | Permalink

    Absolutely beautiful pictures. They are inspiring and motivating for me to pick up my camera and try to create the same simple but gorgeous settings.

  17. Posted September 11, 2009 at 12:28 pm | Permalink

    I’m honored to be in with likes of these awesome photographers, thank you :) Many of them continue to inspire me!
    I have a favorite wooden bowl that I think I photograph too often – can one have too many wooden bowl photographs though? :)
    Thanks again, Cosi!

  18. Posted September 11, 2009 at 8:20 pm | Permalink

    that hsjones photo is just amazing

    my plums from the front yard:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/ethanollie/3899001918/

  19. Posted September 13, 2009 at 9:26 pm | Permalink

    Your post was so inspiring that I started visiting all the bowls in my home. Started with my favorite, the map bowl. http://kimtb.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/bowled-over/

    Thanks!

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