Sleeping with the Nutella, by Bashar Alaeddin

This was a personal project playing and experimenting with items and on contrasting backgrounds. As a food photographer I believe it’s like creating an art-piece, like painting or anything else similar. You sit in the studio with all the colors and textures, and at the end you have to create something for a viewer that will be arouse hunger feelings in them, feelings of action to go get that sandwich and that’s what I enjoy doing, getting hands (and sometimes your camera) dirty and greasy make all the parts come together. For this shot, in the end I wanted to make a sandwich that I would want to eat myself, which I gladly did at the end of this shoot!

Award Winner: Photo of the Day | May 22
Award Score: 53 (Value 10, Clarity 10, Composition 13, Style 10, Skill 10)
Photo of the Day Award Category: Food Photography
Photograph Location: Amman | Jordan

Photographer: Bashar Alaeddin (Amman, Jordan) Registered
Born in Kuwait City, lived between Jordan and Lebanon most of his life, Bashar has over 9yrs experience in digital photography since he picked it up as a hobby for a course during his university years. Starting from a 2mp Samsung, he is now the founder of a photography & video studio based in Amman, Jordan where his time is split between his commercial day job photographing food, interior, products and portraits; and his night-time job traveling around the middle-east region capturing landscapes, the culture and his favorite genre, long-exposures of the night-sky. He is an amateur astronomer and tried to combine that with his love of photographs showcasing the beauty of the Arabian landscapes under starry nights.

Website: http://adasat.co/
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/34413965@N02
500px: http://500px.com/balaeddin