These Skylines Look Good Enough to Eat
All photos: Carl Warner
If the Great Wall of China looks strange in the photo above, that’s probably because it’s made of pineapple. So go the fantastical “foodscapes" by Carl Warner, a U.K.-based photographer whose images fall somewhere between landscape and still life.
Look closely, and you’ll notice that nearly everything in these photos is edible; the dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral is a fat watermelon, the Chrysler Building’s façade of zucchini gleams in the sun, and bell peppers comprise the steps of a Mayan temple.
We’re not the only ones tickled by Warner’s pictures; they’ve appeared in ads around the world since he started creating them 10 years ago after seeing portobello mushrooms that looked like trees from an alien world. He has a theory about why they’re so popular.
"[It’s] an organic material that has such amazing similarities to the larger aspects of the natural world," he notes in a press release. "It is something that people relate to easily and have a natural affinity with. I am also a big foodie, I love to eat well and dine out. Food is something we can all afford to be passionate about."
Warner doesn’t solely do foodscapes (look at these crazy body-scapes!), but we—being food folks and all—are partial to the former.
Below are a few of our favorites making the Web rounds right now. Just try and guess what everything’s made of (and yes, those Parisian balloons are shiny Bing cherries).
[via That’s Nerdalicious]
