This is a simple recipe, just five ingredients. Beautiful acorn, butternut and delicate squash roasted to a perfect warm gooeyness. Just add lots of butter, brown sugar, fresh thyme and rosemary and you’ll have a plate full of heaven. They make for an easy and simple photograph too. No need to fluff them up, their…
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Dhow Boats In The Zanzibar Rain
For my 30th birthday, Heather took me and our daughter Ciela to the island of Zanzibar for 2 weeks. Enjoying the sun and sand quickly turned into running from the flash storm that swept the south east coast. As we made it under the cover of the bar, I was able to quickly photograph the…
Food Market Shopping With Chef Jörgen Sodemann
I snapped up this image of Chef Jörgen Sodemann and his apprentices combing through the fresh produce at the local Seeb, vegetable market in Oman. It was nice to know that attention is still given to fresh local ingredients, in the rather pre-packaged world around us. Seeing Chef Jörgen carefully picking only the best specimens…
Strawberry Gingerdoodle Shortcake
This strawberry ginger doodle shortcake image was my first “finished eating” image. I’ve always wanted to do one. I made it for this Valentine’s Day Recipe, here. Originally, I had styled it with one fork on the plate, but something felt wrong after looking at the image for a minute. I placed a second fork…
Stuffed Seafood Rolls
Sometimes as a food photographer you get given these WTF subjects. The first questions running through your mind are WTF is it? and WTF should I do to photograph it? You know they probably taste super good, but damn are these subjects hard to make look good on the frame. These stuffed seafood rolls were…
Dim Sum At The Al Bustan Palace
The China Mood Restaurant at the Al Bustan Palace Ritz Carlton creates some beautiful dim sum. I did a quick one day food photography shoot for them where I photographed a wide variety of these amazing packets of goodness. Food Photography Of The Day When you are doing food photography with a lot of circular…