Framed cooks ...

Here are two interesting photos of US Navy cooks being framed as they work. It looks like Navy photographers have taken up Alton Brown-style photography with the oven shot.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (Aug. 5, 2008) -- Culinary Specialist Seaman Danielle Pinango cleans a scuttle as part of her duties with the rehabilitation team aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70).

The rehabilitation team is responsible for the safety, cleanliness and habitat of all shipboard spaces. Carl Vinson is undergoing a scheduled refueling complex overhaul at Northrop Grumman Newport News shipyard.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Seaman Luis Ramirez.

NORTH ARABIAN SEA (August 9, 2008) -- Culinary Specialist 3rd Class Gabriel Common, from Basile, La., takes pizzas out of the oven in the aft galley aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72).

Lincoln is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility to support Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom as well as maritime security operations.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James R. Evans.