Meet Chef Keith Snow...

Meet Chef Keith Snow... An internet video pioneer in the realm of farm-to-table seasonal cooking, Chef Snow lives out in the hills not too far from me. He's got a small farm, a couple of horses, a raised-bed garden on the side of his house, and a kitchen filled with his children's laughter, good food, and a bunch of Arri hot lights (I used my speedlights).

Chef Snow started with a website HarvestEating.com, and after a few years of being a slave to HTML, he's now gets to live inside Tivos... PBS picked him up for a series starting this fall.

I shot this for the fine folks of WNC Magazine out of Asheville... I'm always grateful when they throw work my way!

It's official... I've been here a year... yee haa!

Steven Greene of Devereaux's

Part of a series I did for G Magazine of Greenville, this is a portrait shot of Steven Devereaux Greene, one of the Top Chefs of Greenville, SC.
I wanted to balance some strobe with ambient (a dark blue sky, window reflection, and the green Devereaux's sign). There was a huge, unavoidable sodium vapor street light above, and a couple of green street lamps across the street (I didn't mind those so much). This was a gorilla shoot, no permits, so no major stands... Just a speedlight beauty dish above camera right, and a speedlight striplight kicker across the steet. There is a bunch of ambient spill on Steven, but I was able to closely enough match the color temp of the strobe with a gel.

WNC Cover - Everyone Loves Cookies

Since moving out here to SC / NC, I've had some pretty decent luck picking up work from regional publications. Two of the best are G: The Magazine of Greenville, and WNC Magazine. I guarantee you've never seen local pubs of this high quality... the skill and creativity of the editors and design crew, the talent of the writers, the eyes of the photographers, even the paper they print it on... all top notch. I'm fortunate enough to have the cover of the November / December WNC Magazine of Asheville, North Carolina, featuring some cookies prepared by Melinda of Old Europe Bistro. I'm not sure how I got selected for a food shoot... props to Tony Caputo of Austin for a bunch of Michael Angelo's shoots back in the day.