Monday, June 22, 2009

I really like photographing food, as if you didn't know.  I learned a lot about it when I worked for a commercial studio in Rochester.  Cakes and ice creams and beverages, for instance, that you see in magazines and catalogs and on packaging are not always the real things.  The studio is a sort of sterile, staged atmosphere that never really appealed to "photographer" me.  I have been shooting, however, real prepared food dishes for the magazine, which should be out in a couple of weeks.

And these are definitely real--as real as it gets--organic, heirloom and fresh.  It's time for the Cannon Beach Farmers Market, every Tuesday from 2 to 6 pm, now until October.  There is something about these homegrown textures and colors that I find irresistible.  As I look closer, the details pull me in--delicate fronds of fennel, hair-like roots, recurring patterns and subtle plays of light . . .  

But I have to curb my enthusiasm and pace myself--this is only the first week.