I want to be a Foodie

As a photo assistant years and years ago I hated assisting food shots - sorry to my food photographer employers. Then my first big shoot with Time Out Chicago was a cover shot with food. What??!! I was hired because I shot my crazy grandma's pile of buttered toast and had it on my website... I took the photo because I thought my grandma was nuts with her 10 pieces of toast for the 4 of us eating breakfast, not because I enjoyed shooting food or even thought of food as more than just fuel. I did the cover shot anyway and managed to get a pretty model into the shot but did not really want the food in the shot.

Now years after a cooking class in Italy, more restaurants than I can count, numerous food shots and a new kitchen, I think I finally figured out want I want to be when I grow up... a foodie. With my new found love of food, I think I have a new found love of food photography..... of course in my own weird way.

New favorite restaurant: Hot Chocolate on Damen Ave.
Photos have nothing to do with above restaurant.

testing

i have to post these. i just read on one of my favorite photographers blogs that he loves fake backgrounds. well, so do i. actually i am obsessed with them lately. i am working on a series and here is just the beginning... still in editing and retouching phase. thanks to my friend Gar for always being a good sport and thanks to Courtney Rust for the fabulous shorts!!!!

Art?

A friend of mine just sent me this.  I watched it first without the sound and then again with the song.   It hits on something that I have been dealing with all my life..... enjoy.  



Music video for Tanya Davis' song Art by Andrea Dorfman