• 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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  • The Importance of Vision

    The Importance of Vision

    This piece called Descent was just completed March 2016. I’m happy that it has been very well received and many have asked me to give insight into how the image was created.  I’ll get to that later, but first, there’s a more important story to tell. Our journey began over a year ago when our beautiful…

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  • The Mysterious Golden Spires

    The Mysterious Golden Spires

    For decades, I’ve marveled at the “golden sticks” protruding out of the tree line bordering Interstate 495 (Washington beltway).  Those sticks (as I would learn embarrassingly late in life) are called spires. Spire: A tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, typically a church tower. Anyway, I wandered off the beltway and found myself purposely lost…

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  • Good Eats at the Harbourside Grill

    Good Eats at the Harbourside Grill

    I was recently hired to  capture a few signature dishes featured at the Harbourside Grill, St Michaels, MD. It was an honor to be able to work alongside the talented Executive Sous chef, Andrew (AJ) Wells to showcase these succulent creations. Bon Appétit!

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  • The Art of the Continental Breakfast

    The Art of the Continental Breakfast

      I was hired to showcase new continental breakfast offerings at the Harbour Inn in St Michaels MD. The objective: Show that continental breakfast has variety; show continental breakfast is delicious; and show that couples find continental breakfast a great time to connect. Oh yeah, omelets are now on the menu during the weekends. Nothing more…

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