SF Follow Up…
I have so many reasons to want to visit San Francisco. I have been visiting there since I was 12. My uncle and mentor, George, was one of the originals of the Haight Ashbury crowd back in the late 60′s and has never left. I have wonderful friends there including Foodwishes.com’s Chef John and his wonderful wife, SFQ’s Michele and my buddy Alexis from Fearless Critic. Even my pal, former SF denizen, Pichet Ong makes his influence felt when he’s not around paving the way for great restaurant reservations and recommendations via constant texts and emails. It truly feels like a home away from home.
This visit was obviously business related and the workshops I was teaching at the terrific Contigo Restaurant went superbly. We were blessed by the weather gods and it was almost too sunny and warm to use the beautiful outdoor atrium at our venue. But all this being said, it was the reaction of the participants that was the most gratifying part of my trip.
Both our Saturday and Sunday groups were engaged, energetic and worked hard physically and creatively to make great pictures.
Both groups embraced the difficulties of shooting ugly foods, absorbed the information I was sharing about the business of photography and stood tall during the critiques of their work at our conclusion. This last part may have been the hardest and most daring. Consider handing over your card of unedited, unprocessed images to be critiqued by a teacher and group of other photographers. The thought of it even makes me sweat. I applaud their willingness to grow and learn and put ego and self consciousness aside for the sake of their art. Bravo!
One of our participants, Paola Thomas, wrote a terrific breakdown of what we did on Sunday and included her shots and how they were related to what we were learning.
Some of our other shooters were:
Stephen from Kitchen Beard
Natasha from Non-Reactive Pan
Irvin from Eat The Love
Annelies from La Vie En Plat
Anonymous SF Food Blogger Tummy Morsels
Kimberley from Edible San Francisco
Johanna from Low Sodium Blog
Marjorie from This Is My Dinner
Thanks to all and thanks to Foodista and Andie Mitchell for publicizing the event.
Stay tuned for our next event scheduled for late June in Seattle and my debut workshop in my newly refurbished NY studio in July. And…don’t forget IFBC in Portland in August.
PHOTO CREDIT: Paola Thomas
Filed under Food Photography Workshops, Photography, Travel
San Francisco Food Photography Workshop
On the road again…just can’t wait to get on the road again. No, I have not traded my camera for a cowboy hat and gee-tar…although I do have both…I will be in the City by the Bay May 19th and 20th to teach a pair of food photography workshops. I am really excited about these classes. They will be held at Contigo Restaurant, a fantastic venue in Noe Valley. Spaces are limited so please sign up soon if you are interested.
Please email or message me if you have any questions and visit Foodista for all of the details and sign up information.
You can also sign up by clicking on the Brown Paper Tickets button to the right.
See you in SF.
A
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Starting from Scraps…
I was recently given the wonderful opportunity to write, cook, style and photograph my own story about leftovers for Dining. It appeared in yesterday’s New York Times. Although this is what I do here in this space all the time the magnitude of seeing it in print on the cover yesterday and the reception and congratulations I received from friends and colleagues was amazing. It was quite a different experience to see both my photo byline on top of my writing byline in such a prominent space. It’s nice when an old dog can do a few new tricks once in a while. Thanks for reading and thanks for all of the kind words.
Filed under Food Writing, Photography, Reclamation Recipes, With Recipes
