Second Instalment

The second instalment of the project started back in 2012 is here!

The recipe book for Cooking With The Phoenix is now out and available to buy.

The book took some putting together! We had to get the whole team to tell us two things that they like eat. It could have been something their mum made, they make themselves or something that they always order when eating out.

The only problem we had was that quite a few of the team liked steak, and they liked to eat steak with some form of sweet potato, so a number of steak suggestions dropped into my inbox. Obviously we told them they had to pick something else otherwise it would turn out to be a book about how to cook steak in many different ways.

As well as researching the recipes that the team had sent in, I photographed finished meals and individual ingredients. This was a new challenge, I'd never really photographed food before and I was having to think about how to light it to make it more interesting.

The most challenging food to photograph was chocolate pudding with thick chocolate sauce. I had to try and light it so that the sauce didn't look fake or have too many hot spots. I managed to do it, just! The results of which can be seen in book.

The recipe book is packed with sweet and savoury recipes.from white chocolate cheesecake to traditional Czech dishes like Pečená kachna. It is jam packed and well worth a look! I've made a handful of recipes from the book so far, and all of them have been delicious!!
So pop on down to the White Magic Shop and buy your copy today for only £8 and cook like your favourite Phoenix players!

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Three Things

Thing One

At the end of January I had to fly solo for a game, as Richard and Yolanda were attending a close friend's birthday party.

Being a lone photographer for a team is nothing new to me. I was solo all last season with a different team, so I knew the crack and what to expect. I wouldn't be able to cover everything that happened in the game, I'd just have to hope I'd get lucky and the goals and other action would happen where I was.

I did forget that there is a certain pressure to being the only photographer. If you get it wrong, you can't fall back on the other members of the team. There's just you. You and what you have on your memory card. So I did worry my camera would through a wobbler and I'd end up with hardly anything, or nothing at all!

Luckily, I stood in the right places at the right time. Normally in the third I'm in the home end, but that game I went to the away end and was right to do so. Two fights happened. The first to drop the gloves was Andy, the second was Ondrej.

Another thing to come out of that game was the photo of Andy got printed in the M.E.N, which is my first published photograph (that I've seen for myself!).

Thing Two

I made my first trip to an away game at the beginning of the month, which didn't go unnoticed by one of the players who commented, "This is your first away game this season, what has taken you so long?"
It is a good point. The team I photographed for last year was 80+ miles away and sometimes I was there 3 times in a week, so I'm just done with long journeys. Done! But I made this one because it was the first leg of the semi-final of the Challenge Cup.

Thing Three

Last year, I wrote about the new team calendar and how it was a two part project.



Well, the second part of this project is on its way! I'm not sure when or what day it is due out, but I can tell you the second part is a recipe book.
I got sent the food ideas from the boys and researched them, and then did a bit of food photography. I'm not a natural when it comes to food photography but I gave it my best shot and I hope everyone likes it.

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