This is not a pretty cake on first glance. The moment the cherry upside down cake is freed from its pan, the only pretty it could be considered is pretty awful looking. My first thought was “oh my, how am I going to photograph that??” The cherries are all gooped up into a very moist [...]

If you are in Seattle on Monday, May 28th, and like good coffee, then you need to find your way downtown to Seattle Coffee Works (111 Pike Street). This tiny cafe, just on the edge of the Pike Place Market, has actually been open now for quite a while, but is finally getting around to [...]

I know. This is a rookie thing to do. But, I just have to share, because there is only one first time that your photos get published in a magazine. And that time, for me, is now. Seattle Magazine’s Best Restaurant issue is out, and while no, that’s not one of mine on the cover, [...]

Flip through just about any foodie glossy these days, and in addition to gorgeously styled and shot images in articles, you’ll find equally splendid looking advertising, ever so subtly marked somewhere along the edge of the page with “special advertising section” or some such disclaimer. In many magazines, it’s getting harder and harder to tell [...]

This is an odd post for me to write, but I’m a firm believer in helping out where I can. When Brenda of Culinary Fool asked me to help get the word out on a benefit for Moses Olmedo of Queen City Grill to raise money to help pay for his cancer treatments, I couldn’t [...]