Photo Class with the Tintingers

My second group of students met at my family's place in Kirkland - we met once a week for a few months - above are photos of them during their photo adventures! Future post of them will include the photos they took during our classes.

Ireland photos are posted!

After months and months of editing and procrastination, all my Ireland photos are up! In April of this year I took a two week trip around Ireland (we got a rental car) with Patrick and my best friend, Shay. You can all photos on Facebook or the select professional quality ones on my Flickr account :) More updates from my past 8 months of photography adventures to come!

The Meal: Documenting a Global Snack

The Meal

One moment. One meal. One photograph. Let's eat.

On February 24th at 12pm EST, join thousands of people around the world in a simultaneous global meal. Whether it's breakfast in LA or a midnight snack in Beijing, let's take a moment from our hectic lives and share it with strangers around the world. Snap a photo of yourself and your meal and mail it to us — we'll create an exhibition from these self-portraits, documenting the world's largest communal snack.

Nothing makes us feel connected quite like sharing a meal together. On February 24th at 12pm Eastern Standard Time, thousands of strangers from around the world will sit down for a bite in unison and capture a shared experience at the exact same time. Take a photograph of yourself with your meal and mail it back to us. These simultaneous snapshots – self-portraits of people and their foods – will be exhibited in our storefront project space and made available online. Our aim is to inspire a feeling of community across geographic and cultural boundaries. So wherever you may be on February 24th at 12pm, keep your camera handy and something delicious nearby – and remember that thousands of strangers, both near and far, are sharing that meal with you.

It's free! It's fun! It's simple! Just remember to check your local time and photograph what you are eating :) Sorry I haven't posted a lot lately - more to come about my experiences with Kapka, my Grateful Daily project and other adventures in the making. Join us!

Food Photography Since the Seattle Move

A little snippet of the food photography I have done since our move to Seattle in March. I hope to photograph more, I just don't always remember to make the extra effort. Having a job means I don't cook as often which means I don't automatically think to grab my camera. So I have taken to photographing when I eat out and making a list of things I want to cook/photograph: Yellow Curry, Strawberry Pie, Grill Pizza, Watermelon/picnic, etc. Happy Summer

1, 2, 3 Jalapeno!

Today I made 1, 2, 3 Jalapeno Poppers/Bacon Wrapped Cream Cheese Filled Jalapenos! I am calling them that because there is basically only three ingredients (cream cheese, jalapenos, bacon) and it only takes three steps (seed jalapenos, fill with cream cheese, bake...then eat...OK that's 4). They are amazing. And I actually got the recipe off of the Pioneer Woman website which I have not had the privilege of perusing as of yet (although I aspire to one of these days). They are amazing. And they definitely have solved my problem of jalapeno excess after buying the package at Trader Joe's. So everyone must try it! Follow the link!

Friends I Have Met In Bozeman: Robert

Granny's Donuts in Bozeman has the best donuts. Ever. You may think you've eaten the most delicious fried piece of wonder, but unless you have been here, you haven't. Sorry. Robert, the owner and I am pretty sure the only employee here, makes this place what it is. He makes his fruit donuts with fresh fruit and pie filling, his orange cream donuts are better than you can ever imagine and he uses chocolate ganache as the frosting on his chocolate donuts. It's one place in Bozeman I am REALLY going to miss. We asked Robert if he has ever shipped his donuts anywhere, he told us he did once, to a guy getting heart surgery. Ironic, but funny. I think the first time I ever went to Granny's Robert was topping a maple bar with bacon (maple bacon bar...) and he paused, looked up, and asked us if he wanted the triple-bypass donut. Although tempting, the name made me reconsider. He gets special orders for these donuts; they are that good. Robert and Patrick have had some fun discussions about politics and science, I just revel in the fact that he loves making people happy by making donuts everyday. When I brought my mom to Granny's for the first time (she's hooked now), he gave her an old-fashioned donut and offered to make her a pot of tea (it was a really cute single serving pot that he made just for her). We're in love. With Granny's. And with Robert.

Baking Day Extravaganza Day 2

Baking day with Katy today! Photo #1) our failed attempt at using an apple corer/peeler/slicer. Photo #2) our attempt at making flourless chocolate cake but quickly failed by a temperamental oven thermometer and Photo #3) the success of our day - Apple Cheddar scones. Successes of the day: Good scones, good company, experimentation of my new 50 mm lens and motivation for our next project together - sewing aprons! They will match our holiday baking so well.

Happy Birthday Miranda!

Cake I baked for Miranda's 25th birthday last weekend (actually this photo is of the test run cake from earlier). Mango Coconut Cake with Whipped Cream Frosting. 6 layers later and it was very yummy :) And I got to practice more food photography!

Baking Day Extravaganza!

Today my friend Katy and I got together for an afternoon of baking adventure. We made pumpkin cheesecake (it wasn't cool enough to serve up and photograph) and orange chocolate biscotti. It was great hanging with a Cottey friend and doing what we love - baking yummy desserts. And the biscotti turned out pretty darn well for the first time ever making it! Let me know what you think of the images!

Strawberries

Working on photographing more food. Strawberries from awhile back, Japanese food to come!

Scone Day!

Thursday, scone day! Today is Mocha Chip Scones, the photo was from coconut scones.

Travel Food Photography Tips

While looking for jobs I ran across this article that is quite useful for my area of interest.

Patrick's First Loaf of Bread

Patrick's dad taught us a bit about baking bread over Christmas break: Here is Patrick's first loaf by himself! It was yummy, and since then he has made dinner rolls and aspires to make sandwich rolls and French bread. I look forward to many years of fresh bread and cinnamon rolls. Mmmm.

Flathead Cherries

Photos from Penny's house on Flathead Lake - the weekend of Flathead Cherries! I would so live there and own an orchard and be happy forever. I've been eating those cherries everyday for breakfast and look forward to making cherry rhubarb pie and cherry crepes. Mmm. And the bottom photo is my salad that I made from a recipe in Gourmet magazine "Strawberry Avocado Goat Cheese Salad". It had avocado, arugula, feta, orange pieces and juice, strawberries, lime juice and olive oil. It was yummy (but I recommend not putting the dressing on until right before you eat it...otherwise it gets a little soggy). Point being - Flathead Cherries are yummy.

National Folk Festival in Butte

Folk Festival in Butte! Really hot, 120,000 people, good food and really really good music. Mom, Patrick and I made the trek out on Saturday July 11 and spent the whole day there. Didn't have a whole lot of opportunity to photograph the performers which is a shame. We did get to visit our favorite bar, a piano jazz bar named Julian's, photograph to be posted later. Some day I will go in when the pianist is in his tux playing classic jazz tunes and get his portrait. That and the bartenders always have so much character and deserve a portrait as well. I wish I could afford to travel to Butte all the time and photograph, but alas, the life of an artist...
This weekend, I traveled to Kalispell to get Patrick's and my engagement photos taken for our save the dates and the newspaper. I also took a friend's engagement photos which I will post once I start editing. I started my second family book portraits by photographing my sister in Woodland Park....we'll see how those turn out. I also took my camera with us to Yellow Bay on Flathead Lake and it was the start of cherry season. The trees were bursting with fruit and so Katie and I climbed up into the trees at Penny's house on the lake and picked a flat of cherries. And I got some good photos...of course. I am considering making an in depth book on the cherry orchards on Flathead Lake (recipes, orchard history, etc)...we'll see. Off to bed, may inspiration come to me in my dreams. Ciao.

Fourth of July in Avon

Good food, bottle rockets (rockets made of bottles), intense clouds, 9 kids under age 11, and lots of Fourth of July fun in Avon with Patrick's family. That keeps growing. Without realizing it I shot 1600 ISO...I feel a little dumb not checking my camera beforehand, but hey, it happens to everyone. At least the photos turned out OK. The top photo was taken while he was jumping up and down and I could barely keep track of him in the viewfinder, but it looks like I captured him laughing pefectly fine. I didn't get to work on photos for my second family book, but I figure I can go and visit the Avon family anytime. I did show them the first book and explain the concept and my idea for the second book, so they know they'll be involved. Happy 4th!