One of my favourite places to go in Vancouver is Granville Island. It rides a fine line between being a tourist trap and being a well loved local institution. If you’re a local you have to pick your times right to avoid the throngs of tourists (my favourite time to go is actually in the [...]
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Peach Blueberry Muffins
We are in the midst of one of the most beautiful Indian summers that I can remember. The days are still hot and dry but the leaves are starting to turn and the evenings have gotten downright cold. It’s the time of year that Vancouver produces the most incredible sunsets – there’s this fall haze [...]
Expanding Your Food Photography With eyePhone
I’ll admit it… for a while I’ve been struggling with my feelings for mobile phone photography and reconciling it with my feelings for SLR photography. I’m not really even sure how to write about it because it’s a much bigger struggle for me that revolves around capturing images in camera and/or the post processing that [...]
A Day With Joe McNally and Light
There’s not much that will get me out of bed early on a Sunday morning – especially a dark, rainy Sunday morning that should be spent curled up under the duvet. But, a day learning from one of the world’s master photographers, Joe McNally, well, that’ll do it! If you’re a photographer, you already know [...]
And Now For Something Completely Different…
After reading the title of this post, the more cultured amongst you may wonder if I’ve been watching Monty Python lately. Not exactly. I’ve been listening to Monty Python. The I’m So Worried Song cracks me up. I’m so worried about what’s hapenin’ today, in the middle east, you know And I’m worried about the [...]
Blueberries and a Basic Food Photography Post Processing Tutorial
Today I thought I’d spend some time introducing you to the very basics of post processing food photographs. I think it’s very important, especially for beginners, to know that very, very few of the food photographs you see in magazines and on droolworthy blogs came out of the camera looking that way. Very few. I’d [...]
Rasberry Jam and Raspberry Syrup
I have 5 raspberry canes in the very back of my garden. Now, that doesn’t sound like a lot but, they produce a huge amount of fruit. Way more than I can deal with. So far, I’ve made two batches of jam, frozen a huge bag for winter smoothies, made two batches of muffins, given [...]
Improve Your Food Photography: Step Outside Your Box
the photos in this post have little to do with food. they have a lot to do with feeding my soul and stepping outside of things, in an effort to bring something new to my food photography. I hope you enjoy them as much as I’ve enjoyed taking them. I love photographing food, obviously. I [...]
A Food Photography Contest!
My last post on why food photography is like golf, did not garner a lot of public discussion, but I did receive a lot of emails and DMs over it, which leads me to believe I hit more of a nerve than I expected. And perhaps not in the way I’d hoped. The point I [...]
Why Food Photography (or any photography), Is Like Golf
How many of you out there golf? I play once or twice a summer. I hit the driving range a little more frequently. I used to play 18 holes of par 3 every Sunday morning with an old (and very patient) boyfriend. Except, for me it should have been par 9 or 10. I’m terrible. [...]
