I had been talking about doing a shoot with my dear friend Anne who is a wonderful cook and baker. Since she had recently been to Kauai for her honeymoon and also had a shave ice maker, she suggested the shaved ice idea. I actually didn’t even know what it was even though I have… Read more »
A few weeks ago I worked on a shoot with Quinn Poer which was super fun! We were introduced by mutual friends and I thought it would be great to get together for a test shoot. She had the hotdog & lemonade idea and I thought it was fantastic. She did make the cutest hotdogs and… Read more »
Last month I went to a class put on by Creative Live and Andrew Scrivani, an amazing food photographer who lives in New York. He talked about this lighting set up where he bounced a strobe head into a v-flat, which was then covered by a silk, which I really wanted to try. I actually… Read more »
Last month I was asked to photograph at the Seattle Magazine Food and Wine Experience: Comfort Event, which I have to say was really fun and a great learning experience for me. I also went to the next day’s event, the Food & Wine Experience: Grand Tasting, and while it was really impressive and mostly… Read more »
A few weeks ago I did a test shoot with Liz Herrera who I work with over at the Amazon photo studio. She is such a talented stylist, and I always love working with her. When we started talking about doing a shoot we both wanted to do something with a Fall theme, and Liz… Read more »
For the Winter 2016 issue of Cidercraft I was lucky to work on a lot of different stories in the magazine. I worked on the food & cider pairing which is a collaboration of the editor Erin James, chef Jason Scherer, written by Jill Lightner, and a regular feature now. This was shot on… Read more »
A few weeks ago, I had my friends Lindsay Burrows (stylist) and Allison Swanson (trained as a baker) over to make some varieties of Ginger Beer/Ale. It was a really fun shoot. Lindsay focused on the styling, which looked amazing, and Allison cooked and researched the recipes, which tasted amazing. We created mint, blood orange,… Read more »
I was really happy to have been able to photograph not one, but 3 stories for the Winter/Spring issue of Cidercraft magazine. Cidercraft, if you don’t know, is the only national magazine devoted entirely to cider. The women who create the magazine are so awesome too, it’s pretty cool to be a part of their… Read more »