Wok the heck.
I was photographing my Chinese steel wok for a submission for my food blog (2gourmaniacs.com) to tastespotting.com. They're celebrating their fourth anniversary on line with entries entitled tastespotting100. I put my wok on the floor in my dining room and I had a single strobe bank overhead. The image I captured wasn't exactly what I had in mind; in fact, it wasn't the image I ultimately chose for my submission. But looking at this image with the catch light in the center of the wok started me
thinking about parabolic curves, college physics and long forgotten (and never to be remembered) mathematical formulae to describe what I was seeing in this capture. It looked very Asian, it smacked of a science that I use to know something about...
...or I could just have a very serious case of cabin fever here in snow bound Southampton.
