Chocolate Love Fest

Chocolate Heaven
Canon 10D, 17mm, f4, 1/180, ISO 100

The icing on the cake of a pretty amazing weekend was getting to be a judge at the Chocolate Love Fest in the Happy Pear on Sunday. I know I’ve mentioned the Pear before but it really is a special place and they’re always organising cool things like this. People were invited to bring along their best chocolate creations and there was a table set outside where we could all sample the results.

Some of the other judges. We took our job very seriously:

Judges
Canon 10D, 17mm, f5.6, 1/250, ISO 100

It started off fairly tame but I guess the judging took too long for the rest of the crowd. Before too long we were surrounded:

I'm Going In
Canon 10D, 17mm, f5.6, 1/250, ISO 100

Yum
Canon 10D, 17mm, f5.6, 1/250, ISO 100

Well, they were pretty delicious:

Aftermath
Canon 10D, 40mm, f5.6, 1/500, ISO 100

9 Responses to "Chocolate Love Fest"

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  1. Lone Wolf

    March 4, 2008 at 12:33 pm

    Dear GP, I had hoped, based on your recent award-winning status, this was not just another photo porn site. Obviously, I was wrong (tee-hee).

    Yours, LW

  2. gingerpixel

    March 4, 2008 at 12:37 pm

    Chocolate porn: My favourite kind! ;)

  3. Jo

    March 4, 2008 at 2:44 pm

    I wish I’d known about this! I could have made my chocolate cherry torte… mmmmmm.
    Have you seen the channel four programe about the chocolate maker, Sundays at 9? Chocolate porn indeed, he’s gorgeous!

  4. Darren

    March 4, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    Oh my God, I live three minutes walk from that chocolate. How come I didn’t smell it? Why was I not drawn to it? How did I not know?????

    And breathe……

  5. gingerpixel

    March 4, 2008 at 9:56 pm

    Jo, I just saw the ad for the chocolate maker programme, WOW! I think I would put on about 10lbs just by looking at that stuff!

    Darren, in fairness, the chocolate probably didn’t last long enough for the smell to reach you :D

  6. Keira

    March 5, 2008 at 12:05 am

    YUMMY!!!

    I came across your site from Ryan, whose blog I always read and you now have me addicted to bookmooch! Thanks!! ;)
    Love all your photos too ;)

    Keira

  7. tim

    March 5, 2008 at 9:57 pm

    Ok, Lone Wolf cracked me up.

    And, you got to judge that? Wow!

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  9. Kenny

    August 5, 2008 at 8:03 pm

    Wow, the strawberry torte looks incredible. I absolutely love to eat chocolate, and I think strawberries and chocolate are meant to be together. Thanks for the great pics.