Category: Product

  • I love getting inquiries from new companies, especially from industries that I haven’t worked in very often. Today I was asked about my experience photographing textiles. At first I kind of stumbled to think of examples, but after our phone call I went digging in the laundry (hard drives) and realized that I do have a lot more experience…

  • Last week I received a phone call from a well-known company asking to see my portfolio. They wanted to see still life, food and some people (because they don’t usually do much photography of people.) While that phone call was very exciting, the problem was that no one had ever asked me to send in…

  • With our fingers crossed, I think I can say that Rebecca Burgess and I are finished with photo shoots for her book… seven months, six blog posts, four states, and at least twelve photo shoots later. Our last and final task was to photograph the beautiful knit pieces that Heidi Iverson designed and knit to…

  • Nature created amazing plants. Rebecca Burgess dyed wool into cool colors… with the amazing plants that nature created. Heidi Iverson designed patterns and knit fun gloves and a blanket… with the wool that Rebecca Burgess dyed into cool colors… from the amazing plants that nature created. Beautiful ladies and cute children modeled the fun gloves…

  • Since my arrival in California in 2001… I have eaten countless amazing meals. The new culinary world I landed in opened doors for my tastebuds that I didn’t even know existed. So you would think, this being such an important new adventure for me that I would have better documentation of this new edible adventure.…

  • This is The Graziano, of Petaluma’s Graziano’s Ristorante, with his daughter Sonia. Together they are the perfect combination of traditional and progressive. He was born and raised and Italy – she was born and raised in California. He brought his mother’s recipe for gnocchi to Petaluma, and she brought the Martini Bar. And together they…

  • What I learned about product photography: steaming is better than ironing. swabs are better than plastic squeezey things that blow air when you want to clean your digital sensor. t-pins, straight pins with glass heads, and bubble wrap can come in handy when you want to add life to your still life. computer capture would…

  • It is nice to be connected with people who promote my photography, since I don’t do a good job of promoting myself. Ever since I returned from London, I have been meaning to take my portfolio around to magazines in the area, but I just haven’t gotten to it yet. But luckily, Mimi, my soon-to-be-mother-in-law,…

  • This is the hardest post I have made yet… because there are so many cute photos, it took me a very long time to try and narrow down my favorites… but if you want to see more, you’ll just have to wait for the Rattled catalog to come out. And that is all I have…

  • Katie McNicholas Winburn, from Greenville, South Carolina, was frustrated that she couldn’t find simple, practical, inexpensive and cute clothing for her toddler. She said the only clothing for toddlers that she could find either had: overwhelming patterns; awkward sayings or logos; came in pastel colors; or were too expensive… so, with the help of her…