Borbin the 🐱

Every masterpiece begins in silence. The 👩🏻‍🍳 sets the stage, then time, heat and patience compose a quiet piece of culinary art.

Stage 1: Raw Ambition

A turkey in its natural state is like an unread book, full of potential, but mostly cold and uninviting. At this point, the only evolution is your growing doubt about oven size.

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Stage 2: The Great Migration

It moves from countertop to oven, a journey as inevitable as Monday mornings. Here, transformation begins quietly under heat and time.

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Stage 3: The Slow Enlightenment

Hours pass. The turkey meditates in 170°C silence, contemplating its purpose. It emerges wiser, crispier, and slightly golden, proof that patience and heat can turn blandness into brilliance.

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Stage 4: The Final Form

On the table, surrounded by sides and expectations, the turkey achieves peak relevance. For a brief moment, it is the influencer of the dining room. Then, like all trends, it is consumed and forgotten.

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A picture impossible to make with a single exposure

1/25s f/2,8 ISO 400/27° 16-50mm f/2,8 VR f=27mm/41mm

The shallow depth of field creates a beautifully blurred background, something that gives the image its depth and character. To achieve sharpness across the entire plate without losing that blur, two shots were taken: one focused on the front, the other on the back of the plate and then combined using Focus Stacking

Simply stopping down the aperture for more depth of field would have rendered the plate sharp, but also flattened the scene, turning it into the kind of phone photo where the background looks lifeless. This blend keeps the plate crisp while preserving the softness behind it.

Back to the kitchen:

At first it hides its promise. Add time, heat, and a little seasoning and it becomes a quiet piece of culinary work.