I have always been an individual in transition or constant motion. To be fair, who isn’t? We are always learning and push ourselves to our goals and dreams. For me that is to push my work to being based on sincere and honest moments. I strive to become a photojournalist. That is who I feel I am as a photographer and what I am striving to do with my work. With that said, every once in a while I will make commitments to do photo work for friends who I know and want images outside of how I aim to proceed in my professional career. I do this to help them out. Although this is not an image that represents how I wish to move forward with my professional career, it is an image I really enjoy because I find it to be a simply wonderful photo and I wanted to share that with people. Let me know what you think. Thanks.

Above: Triple Peanut Butter Sandwich w/nutella, granola and mixed berry jelly

So begins my adventures into photographing an enjoyable subject of mine…FOOD! I’m trying to broaden my horizons as a photographer and in my attempts to support myself financially as a photographer I need to expand my horizons with my subjects, thus I have come to food. The photo above was what I came up with when I realized I didn’t have enough jelly around the house to create my “Leaning Tower of Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich” so I had to improvise with what I had left in the house. It’s a fairly unorthodox take on a peanut butter sandwich but it was great none the less.

Now that is only half the story… I was unsure where I was gonna shoot this, I don’t own a studio, studio backdrops or even a camera… but I do have Alien Bee Lights and lots of imagination. Well to be honest, I photographed this in my upstairs bathroom. It’s ironic for many reasons. Who really thinks of doing food photography in their bathroom? I had a white vanity which was used for the backdrop and old matte board I used to line the bottom, aside from trying to shove a 36” octobox on a boom stand and shoving my reflector to the left side of the door frame while trying to squeeze in there for the shot there wasn’t much to it. Hopefully with my future purchase of a new camera body (D7000 NEXT WEEK!) and maybe someday buying a lens I will pump out more food and photos, till then, enjoy!

The Fuck Taylor All Stars Debut Music Video. All video is of raw video/audio shot on the Nikon D3s.