wakefulness

There must be a reason that bloggers have taken to breakfast photography. To me, it is about thankfulness and appreciating the food that I am able to eat. It is about taking a moment to appreciate the imperfect beauty of a place setting, the senses involved in eating, beyond taste (the texture involved in peeling citrus fruit, the scent of cinnamon). Browsing other people's breakfast photographs gives me the satisfaction of peering into a segment of someone else's life, the equivalent of a slice of sunshine through the blinds on the carpet (is that why the cats like it so?). Dinner photography would not be as satisfying; morning is particularly sacred with its cups of tea and quiet and that careful pale light. At its core, breakfast photography symbolises the truth I seek in photography- to capture a moment, raw and simple. To help one find beauty in everything, to see life through a new lens.

Some breakfasts:
simply breakfast: the original
of mornings: breakfast photograph community
louvecienne's breakfasts on flickr: my friend jen's gorgeous breakfasts

Breakfast photography also has motivated me to make the simple change of breaking my typical breakfast habit of cinnamon wheat cereal with soymilk seven days a week. Attention to a daily vegan breakfast means eating consciously and peacefully.