• Restaurant Window Dressing

    Restaurant Window Dressing

    A few months ago, I wrote about a food photography client, Johnny Maumbo’s Famous Chicken & Fish. Since then, we’ve completed other branding activities for the restaurant, culminating in the installation of our window dressing concept. In thinking about the design, we had a few objectives to juggle: Create huge impact without totally covering up the windows.…

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  • Highest Honors at PPA International Print Competition

    Highest Honors at PPA International Print Competition

    About a year ago, I wrote an blog article entitled Don’t Dilute Your Portfolio. In this article, I talked about how I turned around a disastrous photography outing at the Baltimore Aquarium. As fortune would have it, the image I affectionately call “Emerald Tree Serpent” won top honors in the 2016 PPA International Print competition.…

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  • Food Styling — Not As Easy As It Looks

    Food Styling — Not As Easy As It Looks

    I was hired to capture some food photography for Johnny Maumbo’s Famous Chicken & Fish, a new restaurant in Langley Park, Maryland. For a number of hours, the owner watched intently as I accepted new dish and meticulously chose a supporting cast from a table-full of other food items and kitchen accessories. This is the part of  the food photography…

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  • Don’t Dilute Your Portfolio

    Don’t Dilute Your Portfolio

    I recently visited Baltimore’s famed National Aquarium. Being surrounded by all of that water inspired me to write about the tendency of artists to dilute their portfolio. Our story starts with me repeatedly failing to capture inspiring images of these magnificent sea creatures. Pictures came out too light; too dark; fish moved too fast; too slow. And where do they…

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