Ted Allen & Jose Andres

Ted Allen was one of the celebrity judges at the event.

Green Trails

Smoky Heat

Pepper, Hungarian Paprika, Cumin

Capital Food Fight 2009

Jose Andres and Anthony Bourdain were the host and co-host of the event. It was a fundraiser for the DC Central Kitchen. More info here. I hope to share more shots this week. If you can not wait = ) and are interested in seeing the shots from that night.

I think my little break is over ; )

Determination

What a sports filled weekend, 2 soccer games and football in the rain on Saturday. Baseball last night to round out the weekend.

I did make it to the Joe McNally Location Lighting seminar on Friday. It was upbeat and Joe covered many ways to use small and large flash units. Need to get the studio set to shoot some stock food this week.

Studio fun with Michael and Olivia

Cold and wet outside, FIRE up the strobes!!

D300
Main - 600ws head in medium softbox
Fill - 600ws head in halfdome softbox
Hair - Sb800 on boom at 1/64th power

I must have been sending out Cowboy vibes since every team in the NFC East lost yesterday.

Guest Post at Towner Jones Photography

I did a brief Food 101 photography over at his blog last week. Click the image to check it out.

Redskins VS Rams

My good friend Shawn and his wife Amelia invited me to a Redskins game a couple weeks ago. We did the full tailgate experience, left at 8:30am, after Amelia put in a good word for us with the big man. We did bagels with smoked salmon, capers, red onion and cream cheese and Guiness for breakfast, Brats and peppers and onions and Yuengling for Lunch & Fajita's ala Smelson and a local micro brew for a snack before we went into the game. The pano is from his season tickets.

My Brother Jim and his Son

My brother and his family met me and the kids at Pumpkin Fest this weekend. Perfect Fall day on Sunday.

Break

I am taking a couple weeks off the blog, I might post here and there if I have something, but I need to get some work done on my website to promote my food photography better.

Groovy Cottage

Rockband Renn Fest Edition

Maryland Renaissance Festival

One of my FAVORITE things to do during the fall in DC. The festival is always a great day, just grab a turkey leg, a pint of beer and catch a show.

Canal in Georgetown

I did a version of this composition in February 2008. This is 5 shots, merged and tonemapped in Photomatix Pro. The last ones I did were a forced HDR with one RAW file, and a ReDynaMix version. You can see the other versions HERE.

Are you Ready for Football??

We got our box of fan gear this week!