Food and Wine

Photography is not my only passion. There are so many things to do, places to go and things to experience in life. Food and wine are right at the top of the list. I'm trying to limit my consumption of both of these right now while I try to loose weight but they still fascinate me. Thus, I have undertaken a new project to photograph food and wine in new and (hopefully) exciting ways that convey my passion.

The photo on the right is one example of this new project. Everytime someone sees this picture for the first time they assume that it is done in photoshop. It isn't. What you see is the result of careful arrangement, lighting and natural optics. Refraction and reflection do the rest.

Unique angles also make everyday objects seem special.

Cathy and I have shutdown the fine art portion of our website (http://pembertonphoto.com) but we promise to have a new and improved version back up sometime before the end of August. We'll have all of the old stuff plus lots of new material, including plenty of food and wine photos. In the meantime you can check out our completely redone website for portrait and commercial photography.

If you are a foodie I recommend that you check out our friends at Artisan Adventures. This is a blog edited by Julie and Loyd Auerbach. Much of what they write about has to do with restaurants and food discoveries here in the San Francisco Bay Area but should be of interest to all Foodhists.

Until next time...
Mark