food, photography and my creative life
Oh hello there! Remember me? No, I haven’t stopped blogging. Or thinking about blogging. I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth. Two things happened – the first was FBC2014, the Canadian food blogging conference we put on over at Food Bloggers of Canada every year . It becomes all consuming in the month leading up to the conference but it’s worth it. I
I spent an hour on New Years Eve sitting on the floor of my bedroom crying. Crying so hard that Sam didn’t know what to do – just kept trying push his head under my arms and lick my face. I just wanted the year to be over. I didn’t even stay up till midnight. I went to sleep, like a kid on Christmas Eve
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 winter on a weekday!) The public market is home to
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 that hangs over everything in the evenings turning the sky
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 happens later – one I have a hard time verbalizing
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 who Joe is. If you’re not, go check out his
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 baggage retrieval system they’ve got at Heathrow I’m so worried
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 venture to say none. When you’re first starting out, you
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 three containers of fruit away and eaten fresh raspberries on
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 find it hugely challenging and it’s probably the one single
I'm a designer, small business owner, photographer, creative, food lover, traveler, dog human, self confessed geek, music junkie, book devourer, and art enthusiast among a million other things. The full bio...
