Alyssa Rich

Recently I have been trying to build my portfolio while spending as little money as possible. I find a stylist and a model that want to further there work and plan the party. Much love to Alyssa Rich and Angela Kelsick. It was a fun day. 

I'm sure everyone remembers being young and coming home from school to a after school snack. Well when I got the chance I would make my own. For most this might consist of peanut butter and crackers, or a fruit roll up. My favorite snack however was cut up lemons and limes with the skin still attached. I would sit down in front of the TV and methodically peel the sour fruit from its skin, put the whole piece in my mouth and pucker to it's tart goodness. This was real bad for my teeth so rest assured my mom put an end to my sour addiction the second she found out. To this day though I love eating lemons and limes. 

Carrots contain what is called carotene. our body's break this down during metabolism and convert it into vitamin A. Being a photographer good vision is my biggest asset. I am so thankful that I have good vision, and since I have it I thought I would use it  to take some detailed photos of carrots. I find myself realizing what I love about these foods while I'm shooting them. This stuff is hardly planned. I usually go to the store and see something colorful and like a kid in a candy shop I get excited as ideas flutter in my head. It's not till during the shoot that I step back and realize how great and beneficial these foods are to us. So I plan on exploring this until I have shot every food there is. 

In the photo with the eye chart look carefully, they are not just randomly picked letters. Hope your eye sight is good, and if it's not, eat a carrot.

Yesterday I went out to a produce market looking for vegetables that grow under ground. You know, potato's, beets, carrots, and I came across Radishes. I realized that these are really unique vegetables. They have the look of a small turnip but taste nothing like any vegetable I have ever eaten. They say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, well if the radish did fall from a tree it wouldn't fall anywhere in sight. So here's to you radish for being the vegetable that only really gets eaten on a salad with lots of ranch.

OK, so I have a sever addiction to that little thing that makes everything taste so much better, Garlic. To most my addiction is a pretty big problem, considering my breath after a garlic and mushroom pizza. I couldn't care less though, there is nothing and nobody that could drag me away from this stinky affair. Hats off to you garlic for making every other food that much better.

Oranges are so great. I know every time I feel like I'm getting sick the first thing that comes to mind is a large glass of orange juice. Vitamin C is my hero during these crazy transitions of seasons. So here's to you orange juice and all your powerful, sticky, delicious ways. 

So here is some more food I have been interested in. Broccoli is one of my favorite vegetables so I felt quite privileged to shoot this lovely food. While I was shooting I remembered being a kid and how much I hated broccoli. The only way my parents could get me to eat it was to say that all the florets were trees, and I was the dinosaur coming to devour the forest. Yeah I was that kid, and yes Jurassic park is one of my favorite movies.