Jewels

I’ve been playing with my images lately and liking the altered versions more than the “as shot” originals. I shot these plums last Sept for Connecticut Magazine and they’re beautiful as is in all their purple majesty but I’m loving the toned versions too.

Here is the original and a couple other versions.

Sometimes on a shoot the preparation shots are the most interesting. This was from a recent travel story where the staff was setting up flowers on the bar. I shot the it later when it was cleaned up and pretty as it was I liked this better. This was in an Inn where everywhere you looked there were beautiful things to photograph inside and out.

One of the perks of shooting restaurants is tasting lots of different types of food and working with chefs who are as passionate about their food as I am about photographing it. Here is a spread I shot for the January 2010 issue of Connecticut Magazine featuring Ibiza Tapas beautiful Spanish food in Hamden and Ferme in Avon that has a seasonal Farm to Table menu…

I was at a party the other night and the subject of New Haven pizza came up… here in CT it’s legendary…I had to pipe in about a shoot I did for Yankee Magazine last year on just that…Pepe’s vs Sally’s… here are a few shots from the shoot… I hired a photographer friend who LOVES pizza as my assistant that day and off we went to New Haven. We shot at Pepe’s first, that’s their tomato pie above…a perfect thin, crispy crust, melt in your mouth good… and also shot their famous white clam pie along with atmosphere shots and the making of the pizza…

and after shooting and eating pizza it was on to Sally’s for more… the veggie pizza had super thin slices of zucchini, tomato and sweet onion and was unbelievably good…