Last updated at 23:28 13 January 2008

It looks like a scene from a paradise island ... a little green boat bobbing on a sea tinged pink by the setting sun.

Try to dive into those inviting waves, however, and you could end up in something of a mess.

For the sea is actually smoked salmon. The rocks and pebbles are brown soda bread and potatoes, while the sand is sugar and the trees dill. The boat is a pea pod.

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Even the sky is food - a thin slice of salmon with a light shining through it for the sun. These amazing images come from a series of pictures called Foodscapes, created using simple kitchen ingredients.

Made entirely from vegetables, meat, dairy and fish produce, the lifelike scenes range from a broccoli forest to a mushroom field.

They are the work of Carl Warner, a 44-year-old photographer from Kent who has spent the last few years developing his style.

Each scene is photographed in separate stages to stop the food wilting and then put together on a computer.

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Mr Warner said: "I begin by drawing a conventional landscape using classic compositional techniques because I need to fool the viewer into thinking it is a real scene.

"It is the realisation of what the real ingredients are that brings a smile, and for me that's the best part.

"Although I'm very hands on with my work, I do use model makers and food stylists to help me create the sets.

"Normally I set them up on an 8ft wide by 4ft deep table top, though the foreground is only about 2ft across and the background 8ft across."

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He added: "I think the smoked salmon sea has been one of the most successful items in terms of its closeness to the real thing.

"My favourite scene has to be the broccoli forest.

"It was the first one that went from my head to my sketch book to the finished image as a smooth process of realisation. It also raised the bar on how realistic I could make them look."