Use Your Loaf (The Miss behind Les' Breads)

I love barter. The exchange of service and products. I learnt that in year 9 commerce. Back then I thought it was just a ye olde term for those egyptians that bartered a bag of grain for 36 pineapples.
We also spent a week learning to write a cheque. Man, year 9 commerce was excellent and so so useful.

So I learnt that I can barter my photography of a baker for bread.

Les Bartlett is an artisan baker based at Crystal Waters village near Maleny, Queensland. Les taught himself (later in life - around age 40) to bake! And is passionate about the bakery being the centre of a vibrant community. The warm beating heart of Crystal Waters! Every Friday he spends an entire day from dawn til dark baking a range of scrumptious sourdough loaves for the locals. I photographed all the beautiful doughy moments in exchange for as much bread as I could eat (which is about one loaf it turns out).

Dough!

And for extra fun, having seen a photo attached to the bakery door, I suggested we do an 'ode' to Les's favourite shot of a french baker.

This is the original shot:

And this is ours...

Complete with framing, caption and credit.

(Besides the loaf, Les also gave me some chocolate, so it worked out as a good barter exchange in the end.)

Go barter something people! It's the economy of the future (and of those folk in egypt back in roman numerally something, didn't study history sorry).

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