Several weeks ago, Annabelle Breakey, one of my favorite photographers, tweeted: I’m a photographer and the market place is really crazy- how best to share work and inspire?? go forward? thoughts anyone? How could I resist? I asked if she’d consider a virtual interview to share here. Wonderfully, she said yes! First, you should pop [...]

A few weeks ago, I got a lovely piece of mail from a food stylist that I hadn’t known before. Actually, I had known him from his amazingly beautiful stylings in magazines like Sunset among countless others. In fact, you have most likely seen Randy Mon’s work before too without knowing it. Such seems to [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the business end of photography these days. I’m in the midst of reading John Harrington’s Best Business Practices for Photographers, a book intended for professional photographers with well-established businesses, but still a good read for those just getting started. It goes into almost painful detail about licensing and rights [...]

Dessert Parfait Photo © Mike Jensen Taste of the NFL cookbook, a fundraiser for hunger relief Styling by Lisa Golden Schroeder For quite some time now, Lisa Golden Schroeder, one of the food styling industry masters, and I have been trading phone calls and voice mails, trying to find some time in both of our [...]

If there was one thing (and there were many!) I learned from my experience meeting with MatthewA, it’s that I am not a particularly good interviewer. Particularly when I’m surrounded by food and cameras and dishes and linens and people making gorgeous images, I tend to just get lost in the moment and forget the [...]