Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2010

I got some great news a few days ago. Two cookbooks i worked on this year have been nominated for the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2010 Here is the offical press release from Gill & Macmillan. the publishers. Well done ladies,Wahoo!

Multiple wins for Irish Chefs at The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards

Catherine Fulvio’s first cookbook has won awards for Best Italian Cuisine Cookbook and Best Television Celebrity Cookbook at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, while Domini Kemp’s Itsa Cookbook won the Best Corporate Cookbook Award.

They now go on to represent Ireland when the judges deliberate at the best in the world stage of the competition.

Results will be announced at a glamorous awards event on March 3, 2011 on the first day of the Paris Cookbook Fair.

The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards were founded in 1995 by Edouard Cointreau. Every year, they honour the best food and wine books. The objective of the award is to help readers find the best out of the 26,000 food and wine books produced every year. This year 154 countries participated in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.

Catherine’s Italian Kitchen and Itsa Cookbook are published by Gill & Macmillan.

Both books are priced at €19.99 and are available in bookshops nationwide.

Christmas on a budget

Seeing as its almost Christmas, i thought i'd post this lovely shoot i did with Dee of Deelitefull fame. I had to put in the photo of my dog Rafa, eyeing up the ham in between shots!To get all the recipes and the rest of the shoot check out Decembers issue of Easyfood magazine.

cover

Love this cover i shot for Maternity & Infant magazine. How cute is this little girl!

Shortlist

I was totally chuffed to be one of three photographers shortlisted for Photographer of the year again. It wasn't to be this year and my title ( it would be great if it were a crown!)went to the very deserving Andrew Kelly of Irish Wildlife. You can check out his beautiful wildlife work here http://www.akellyphoto.com/

cover

oh and here's the cover!

Image Interiors

I'm totally delighted to have photo on the cover of this months Image Interiors! We did a lovely shoot on Sweetbank farm, for the Christmas issue. I even managed to get my little Oscar into the shoot (yes i am a pushy mother!)

Yummy food!

Here are some of the pictures from Domini's book. Hungry yet...

its a cookbook

Domini Kemp's brilliant cookbook, Its a cookbook will be on the shelves on Oct 8th. Here's the cover with the lady herself looking fab! I'm so thrilled with how the book turned out. I'll post some of the photos from the inside in the next few days!

Cook book

Its all about food at the moment!I just saw the new Catherine Fulvio Cookbook which looks really lovely and it has my photo on the cover! I had a great day in Ballyknocken house earlier this year with Catherine and her lovely family taking photo's for the cover.Catherine was a tropper! it was cold and windy but she braved it out. I can't wait to try out some of the recipes.
I'm also really excited about Domini Kemp's cook book with is coming out in October. I shot all the photos for the book and i'm so thrilled with it. My copy of the cook is winging its way towards me as i write this. Photo's to follow soon...

Easy Food Shoot

I did a lovely shoot with the very talented Dee from http://www.deelitefull.ie/ for Easy food magazine. I was delighted that they used one of my images on the cover.

Sligo wedding

Its the last day of summer today (well yesterday!)and i've been seriously neglecting my blog. I've had a busy, great summer with some really lovely weddings. I hoping to get them all up on the blog but here's one for starters! http://www.joannemurphyphotography.com/photos.php?intProjectID=7
The gorgeous couple, Simon and Joanne, got married in June in Co. Sligo. Fabulous weather, stunning location and wonderful people all the ingredients for a really great wedding!

Lovely Family

I had the lovely job of photographing my old boss a few weeks ago. The shot was for IMAGE magazine, Trevor has a new column following his journey as a first time dad. Whilst i was there i got this sweet photo of the three of them togther.

Castle Leslie

I took a trip up to Monaghan last Friday to check out the gorgeous Castle Leslie. This was my first time there and it is such a stunning venue. I'm really looking forward to next Friday when i'll be photographing a fab wedding there. Fingers crossed for the weather. Here are a few shots i took on my day trip!

The sunday Game

Amazingly this game of football was relatively peaceful. Sometimes you need your united nations hat on. Helps when the ref is your cousin and a girl!

Louloubelle bags

Now that spring has finally sprung, i thought i'd post some photo's i took for the very talented designer louise O'leary who runs Louloubelle bags. These bags are from her Spring/Summer collection and are available to buy on her website.

January Maternity & Infant magazine

This is the latest Maternity & Infant magazine. Its the January/February issue, and we racked our brains trying to come up with a way to create a winter wonderland. It lashed rain on the day and In the end we just kept it simple, little did we know when we shot it in November that the country would be snowed in after Christmas!