I received my first assignment (post-grad-school) for the Petaluma Magazine this month and I decided to bring the Rollei along. The pay isn’t great but it is enough to cover expenses of film and processing, and since this isn’t a full time gig, or even one I could think about supporting myself on, I decided to have fun and hopefully get a good published portfolio out of it, which will help for future magazine gigs.

This story is on a new restaurant in town (Petaluma) called the Walnut Park Grill and basically this magazine just gives new restaurants a good plug so the photos need to do the same and be well groomed and happy. Here are three of my favorites, I don’t want to reveal too many, but I am pretty sure these ones won’t make the editorial cut… I don’t think they show enough of what they want to show…

….like lots of people dining at the restaurant instead of a beautiful sky…..

…or the owner of the restaurant instead of the handsome Hungarian manager…

…but how can they resist this one… cute kid, with cute red hair happily eating a french-fry… I couldn’t resist… I was all packed up and had already said my good-byes but the red hair pulled me back for more.