Have you ever thought of what you could do with food besides eat it? For example, use them as objects for lanscape-like images? That is exactly what Carl Warner, a British photographer, does for a substantial amount of his career. In this video, Warner’s background is discussed and we see Warner at work at one of his finest projects yet, a chocolate dreamland.

Warner draws his inspiration from local farmer’s markets, looking at grocery objects and thinking what else they could represent. Looking at a mushroom from a different angle makes Warner see an umbrella tree.  It takes a true artist to wonder what a hot air balloon made of bananas would look like.

Warner pushes the boundaries of photography by playing with the scale of things and taking pictures from a variety of different angles. For example, in one of his images, a loaf of bread looks like real-life mountains, and in another image, broccoli stalks are used to make a natural forest.

Students at WJ have also dabbled in food art, holding an annual food art contest, but on a much smaller scale than the food masterpieces Warner manages to piece together. The size and detail of his art is almost hard to believe, especially given the  delicate nature of food.

Thus, Warner shows his audience that through an imaginative eye and some creative thinking, common objects can be used to make real life landscape-like images.