Strawberries

Working on photographing more food. Strawberries from awhile back, Japanese food to come!

Scone Day!

Thursday, scone day! Today is Mocha Chip Scones, the photo was from coconut scones.

Travel Food Photography Tips

While looking for jobs I ran across this article that is quite useful for my area of interest.

Patrick's First Loaf of Bread

Patrick's dad taught us a bit about baking bread over Christmas break: Here is Patrick's first loaf by himself! It was yummy, and since then he has made dinner rolls and aspires to make sandwich rolls and French bread. I look forward to many years of fresh bread and cinnamon rolls. Mmmm.

Flathead Cherries

Photos from Penny's house on Flathead Lake - the weekend of Flathead Cherries! I would so live there and own an orchard and be happy forever. I've been eating those cherries everyday for breakfast and look forward to making cherry rhubarb pie and cherry crepes. Mmm. And the bottom photo is my salad that I made from a recipe in Gourmet magazine "Strawberry Avocado Goat Cheese Salad". It had avocado, arugula, feta, orange pieces and juice, strawberries, lime juice and olive oil. It was yummy (but I recommend not putting the dressing on until right before you eat it...otherwise it gets a little soggy). Point being - Flathead Cherries are yummy.

National Folk Festival in Butte

Folk Festival in Butte! Really hot, 120,000 people, good food and really really good music. Mom, Patrick and I made the trek out on Saturday July 11 and spent the whole day there. Didn't have a whole lot of opportunity to photograph the performers which is a shame. We did get to visit our favorite bar, a piano jazz bar named Julian's, photograph to be posted later. Some day I will go in when the pianist is in his tux playing classic jazz tunes and get his portrait. That and the bartenders always have so much character and deserve a portrait as well. I wish I could afford to travel to Butte all the time and photograph, but alas, the life of an artist...
This weekend, I traveled to Kalispell to get Patrick's and my engagement photos taken for our save the dates and the newspaper. I also took a friend's engagement photos which I will post once I start editing. I started my second family book portraits by photographing my sister in Woodland Park....we'll see how those turn out. I also took my camera with us to Yellow Bay on Flathead Lake and it was the start of cherry season. The trees were bursting with fruit and so Katie and I climbed up into the trees at Penny's house on the lake and picked a flat of cherries. And I got some good photos...of course. I am considering making an in depth book on the cherry orchards on Flathead Lake (recipes, orchard history, etc)...we'll see. Off to bed, may inspiration come to me in my dreams. Ciao.

Fourth of July in Avon

Good food, bottle rockets (rockets made of bottles), intense clouds, 9 kids under age 11, and lots of Fourth of July fun in Avon with Patrick's family. That keeps growing. Without realizing it I shot 1600 ISO...I feel a little dumb not checking my camera beforehand, but hey, it happens to everyone. At least the photos turned out OK. The top photo was taken while he was jumping up and down and I could barely keep track of him in the viewfinder, but it looks like I captured him laughing pefectly fine. I didn't get to work on photos for my second family book, but I figure I can go and visit the Avon family anytime. I did show them the first book and explain the concept and my idea for the second book, so they know they'll be involved. Happy 4th!