Category Archives: Foodie Talk

WEO at Burdigala

WEO hosted its August Networking event at Burdigala Wine Shop and Wine Bar located in Sellwood.  What a great turnout!  Poor Didier, the owner, was the sole male in the house that evening.  Speaking to the group, he said he felt a little overwhelmed facing 60-something women with all eyes on him!  Didier has a...

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Techie Talk – Available Light

A fun part for me in photographing an event is the food!  This tray of sliders was just about to go out to the guests.  Light was bouncing off the cement patio and creating this great vignette on the back wall – seriously this is not a Photoshop vignette.  My Nikon 50 mm lens is...

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Headshot Sass

  Grace Pae is chef and owner of Artemis Foods.   I first met Grace in 2001.  She was the caterer at the home garden wedding that I was photographing.  The layout of the house had only one way to get to the back yard wedding-reception area – through the kitchen. “Grace under fire” was...

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Focusing The Viewer – Part 2

    DOC  is unlike any restaurant.  Its named is derived from ”denominazione di origine controllata” - the Italian controls of wines of “particular reputation and worth”.  Walking through the front door, you enter straight into the kitchen.  The sense one feels seated at the table is having a meal in an Italian cottage out in the rural Tuscan countryside.  ...

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