By André Costantini
Sometimes you find photographs where you least expect them. I had not expected to take out my camera the afternoon that I made potato leek soup for the second time. Actually, it was specifically the second time because the first time I made it, the recipe called for two pounds of leeks. Which I weighed and chopped only to realize, before making it that it was two pounds of leeks with the stems on and not off which is how I weighed them. It just happens to be the difference between six and three leeks. Which led me to store the excess leeks in a bowl and the next day to make another batch with the "left-over" chopped leeks, which led me to this photograph.
On the afternoon I dumped the leeks out of the bowl and added them to the butter and shallots, this scene just as you see it, was staring back. At this point, it seemed quite obvious, it was meant to be photographed.
I grabbed my Nikon with the Tamron 28-300 VC lens on it, zoomed it to 120mm and shot the image at f5.6 at 1/20 of a second, ISO 400. The Vibration Compensation was on and in the case of this picture made the difference, helping me to get a clear image without a tripod using the available light in the kitchen.
If you ask me whether I would make it again, I would tell you that it is quite likely. Not only because it was quite tasty, but because now I have a photograph to remind me of the first and second time I made potato leek soup.
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