Next time you're told not to play with the vegetables on your plate, think of Carl Warner - for both inspiration and as an alibi.
The London-based photographer specialises in creating art from food.
His solo photography exhibition 'Foodscape' - currently on at Festival Walk in Kowloon Tong - showcases the artist's fantasy world, in which bread is rock, broccoli is lush forests and purple cabbage leaves form a stormy sea.
Inspired by fantasy artists like Roger Dean and films such as The Wizard of Oz and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Warner's yummy pictures usually start out as classical landscape compositions. They are then supplemented by visits to food markets and grocery stores.
'We [he and his team] select only the best looking and freshest ingredients we can source so that everything looks at its best,' he says.
The clever mimicking of landscapes is a product of Warner's unique gift of seeing the visual potential of food, his photography skills, and the hard work of his team of model makers and food stylists.