I have some exciting news. It’s been a while now since my friend Bea and I started talking about running a food styling and photography workshop together. It took us some time to find a time when it both fitted our schedules. Yet we had found an amazing place to run it. In France! We [...]

I hope you all had a very merry holiday and a great week leading up to the New Year! Just stopping in briefly to announce the winner of the giveaway of our Food Photography & Styling for Bloggers class. Via random number generator, our winner is Stacy Ernst! Stacy – I don’t have your email, [...]

In case you missed my tweets, I’m thrilled to announce that I’m going to be teaching a new 4 week class on food photography & styling this January. I get so many requests from folks that can’t quite make their way to the Pacific Northwest but are interested in improving their food photography. So, unlike [...]

If you’ve been following my good friend and fellow doughnut cookbook author Jess Thomson’s fantastic blog, Hogwash, you’ll know that the past few months have found me all around Washington taking photos for the next very cool cookbook Jess is working on, Dishing Up Washington.

The world has changed since I started Still Life With. It really wasn’t all that long ago that the only book on food photography focused only highly lit, commercially produced shots of things like fake ice cream. There was some good information in that book, but if you were a food blogger or developing an [...]