Recently I photographed Bradford Still and Collin Crockett of the nut milk startup Fresh ’Til Death Cafeteria. It was an assignment for Edible Brooklyn's dairy issue and you can find the story here. Hanging out with these guys was a lot of fun. They live in a quirky Bushwick apartment with sawhorses lying near artistic tchotchke vignettes. We talked a lot about juggalos interestingly enough and about bad art left in their loft by their former roommate. After telling them that they owned a lot of stuff American Pickers would be interested in, we headed up to the roof for the shot you see above. Still and Crockett were good sports and did several jumps to get the right one. I think was attempt number three out of who knows how many.
Food and Drink
Alice Feiring/ The Waverly Inn
Jeff Harding is StarChefs.com's ever-so-wonderful freelance wine writer. Earlier this week he interviewed Wine Writer and Expert Alice Feiring at The Waverly Inn --Harding's place of work. I had the pleasure of photographing Feiring at the entrance of The Waverly Inn and I love the colors in this shot. The purple and green work so nicely with Feiring's feiry hair.
Housemade Spam/ Okonomiyaki from Lani Kai
Chef Okochi Sawako of Lani Kai - New York, NY allowed me to come into her kitchen and witness the making and flipping of her Okonomiyaki (which includes housemade spam). StarChefs.com featured it in their New Years Day newsletter mentioning that the dish would be good for post-celebratory consumption. I sampled it and I can guarantee that it is also good for pre-celebratory consumption. If you want to eat something ever-so-munchie-tastic with dancing bonito flakes, I highly recommend the Okonomiyaki at Lani Kai.
Wafu Staff Meal/ Portland
When I was in Portland, Oregon with StarChefs.com I shot the staff meal at Wafu with Sous Chef Jane Hashimawari. She made fried rice with roasted potatoes, chicken oysters and, as you can see from the picture below, a lot of mayo. The guy on the phone near the walk-in is Wafu's Chef Trent Pierce.
Park Avenue Liquor/ Edible Manhattan Piece
Here are some shots from my visit to the Goldstein's store, Park Avenue Liquor in Midtown Manhattan. Some of these photos ran in the November-December issue of Edible Manhattan. The first picture was printed as a whole page and it looked so nice!
Seersucker restaurant in Carroll Gardens
Last month I shot Native Arkansan Rob Newton's Carroll Gardens restaurant Seersucker for my old friends at Arkansas Life. I sent them the hi-res images of their picks earlier today so I thought I'd post some of the outtakes from the shoot. I'm going to have to go back and eat those Chicken and Dumplings...
Catching the Ox Project: Apples
Recently, I joined David Lanthan Reamer in his Catching the Ox project. I met him through a mutual friend and colleague, Mike Gross. The two came up with this project which is supported by a small group of photographers scattered along the east and west coasts. Each month or so, some or all of the photographers create a photograph with the inspiration of a common culinary category. I participated in the "apples" category with David. He and I came up with two very different concepts and they look pretty great together if I do say so myself. Check it out here.
Here's an outtake from my apple shoot.
5th Annual Chefs Congress 2010/ Day 1
Starchefs.com hired me to shoot the 5th Annual Chefs Congress at the Park Avenue Armory in September. This set of photos is from the first day of the Congress, September 20. For more photos from me and other photographers from the first day go here. In this set below you'll see chefs Johnny Iuzzini, Brian Voltaggio, Wylie Dufresne and Marcel Vigneron; mixologists Dave Arnold and Nils Noren; and sommelier Geoff Kruth.
A new day, a new blog
I decided to clean up my act and start a new blog. If you want to see my old posts, no worries, they're all still there. Now, on with the new stuff!
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