El Diablo Tacos Shoot with Meghan Guthrie

Some of the selects from the entertaining shoot for El Diablo Tacos

Styled by Meghan Guthrie 

 More after the jump...

Food Ingredients Test (and meet)

Little morning test with Joyce Sangirardi, a Stylist who contacted me after she saw my website.
She had a great idea of instead of just meeting for a coffee we could do a small test and see how we worked together.
In the process of working out dates to shoot and where, we found out we only live a short walk from each other, here's hoping that will mean we can test more often. 
Two shots for an ingredients type page. 

You can find more of Joyce's work and details here. 

Jason Hamilton Photographer Facebook

New Facebook Fan Page finally done..

Will try to post new work to it as its published.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Hamilton-Photographer/138071272885770

Marcus Hay

Marcus is someone who's styling work I have admired for years. 

Always inspiring and working with great photographers I enjoy seeing Marcus' work and his often eclectic mix of old and new. 

We share mutual friends from days gone by back in Sydney and although we both have vague recollections of actually meeting way back then, we "officially" meet through Edwina White in New York. 

We see each other occasionally but I hope that we can work with each other soon.

Have a look at his blog for inpiration, tips and working annecdotes.

Marcus Hay Fluff n Stuff

Happy Baby Book!

Another great ACP Book for Babies and Toddlers is out and has used some of my photographs from the Healthy Babies book.

Happy Baby: The Complete Recipe Collection For Babies And Toddlers

288 pages of great recipes for young kids. 
ISBN 10 : 1863969594

ISBN 13: 9781863969598

I couldn't find a purchase link back to ACP Books, but if you would like to purchase it, you should be able to here

Healthy Babies Book

The ACP Book I worked on in March is finally out.

After doing multiple cover tries with models (babies and Mums) the ACP books team decided to go with a shot they already had in stock (unfortunately for me, its the only shot I didn't shoot in the whole book)

120 pages of great recipes for young kids.

ISBN 10 : 1863969020

ISBN 13: 9781863969024

I couldn't find a purchase link back to ACP Books,
If you would like to purchase it you should be able to here

Birthday El Diablo Tacos @ Union Pool

My first birthday celebration in New York!

Great to have good friends around and a relaxed spot in the beer garden to eat awesome tacos.

El Diablo Tacos on facebook
El Diablo Tacos on twitter  
El Diablo Tacos on Yelp


Union Pool's Blog

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Feast, Williamsburg

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Feast, Every year in pocket of will the streets are shut down for a week (I think) and a festival takes place. Side show games for the kids. Funnel cakes and teenagers cruising around. Williamsburg Details-

FOOD Book !!

An almost month long job, working on a food book-
Australian Women's Weekly - Healthy Babies: Food for healthy Babies and Toddlers
ACP Books

With about 110 pages to fill I decided that we should set up and run two sets. The white set was only used for all the extra insert/ deep etch shots but made everything more efficient on the days we had to shoot options.

Beautifully styled/ propped by Justine Osborne and food prepped by a tireless Amal Webster, it was a great, fun and challenging job to be involved in.

With really strong direction from the Art Directors Hieu Nguyen and Hannah Blackmore, it was amazing to see it all coming together on the BIG grid layout on the wall.

A detail of the wall below.

Below is the double set we had running. It was the easiest way to get through the options that we had to shoot including some shots on white that were going to be deep etched.

Thanks all involved, I really do hope we can all work together again soon.

Sophie Hansen stories for Australian Good Food

More great shoots before I leave Sydney. This job, a few days away, in Orange, NSW, a place putting itself on the food map and not so far away from Sydney to do a weekend or mid week sojourn. 
On our first night staying at the Black Sheep Inn, Stylist Kate Brown and myself were told a story by Ren Matthews, the Art Director at the magazine. She had stayed there previously and one morning on an early walk found herself a little worried in the middle of a small herd of very inquisitive cattle. Needless to say I found myself in exactly the same situation the following morning!  taking in the beautiful country side and getting some early morning shots in before breakfast. 

A shot we had to light was one in which seven girls were sitting around the lounge interacting with each other, similar to the dummy (which is me) below.

Magazine subscriptions here.

New Friends

During a pre Thanksgiving day party I met Greg and Jade Matthews. The connection was almost immediate and they invited me to there house for a Thanksgiving dinner on the actual day. It was the night before I was flying back to Sydney so I packed early and headed to Williamsburg for the intimate dinner with a few of their friends. It was a great night and hopefully I'll see them often when I move back to New York in 2009. 
They own and run El DIablo Taco's, the taco truck is located in the back yard of Union Pool. Cnr of Union and Meeker, WIlliamsburg. 
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