Photo by caroline.angelo

Apart from the deluge of photos of family outings, babies in reindeer antlers and holiday decorations, food porn reaches its lascivious heights during the holidays. Dainty sugar cookies and roast geese, teased and preened into submission. But in my book, the process is more beautiful than the product. And this shot by caroline.angelo captures all action and effort in making a simple cookie, much more than any staged shot. Without context, the blown out flash and natural vignetting — focused on the ornate yet elegant ring — imbues the photo with a vintage look, straight from a era decades ago. One can only guess that the other hand may be holding the other end of the rolling pin, or a three-olive gin martini.