Feeling Optimistic with a Fresh New Website

Nothing makes you feel more excited than to share new work. As a photographer, sharing my work is both exciting and challenging. I strive to bring a fresh perspective of beauty to a world flooded with imagery.

It is for that reason am incredibly excited to share with you my new website. Every element is carefully considered as part of translating photos into powerful statements.

The way this website functions allows me to show, interactively, what my work is all about. Not just the different subject matter that I can shoot or the lighting. It shares a mindful approach to what I care about. Explaining what drives me and what my passion is. This website features foods and moods from sweets to drinks to what is on the table. There are also collections of fine art work, motion, and some of my favorite moments behind the scenes.

Through this new website, I get to share my commercial work, my tear sheets, my studio, my social media and also my personal work, a series of abstract landscapes.


My hope is that it becomes clear that the way I approach my work is through intuition. Passion for food, wellness, art and social causes fuels what I do. Imagery is powerful, it can change the way that you view the world around you. Through exploring this website I hope it leaves you feeling as encouraged and optimisitc as I do.

Just in Time for Thanksgiving-A Turkey Company Website andSocial Media Update

    "If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you." 

In my work these past few years there has been greater emphasis placed on assignments crafted specifically for social media needs. Before this, assignments would be primarily focused on Ad work, with social media as a secondary need. Things have changed, and now I seem to be shooting specifically for social media, websites that will attract pins from Pinterest. From that work the agencies will cull which images will work for Ads. Change can be good, and in this case it is. I like this direction as the social media assignments are usually broader in range- meaning larger scale - like a cookbook- so we can approach these shots in an editorial way. We can develop an overall look and feel for the body of work and we can be looser in the styling and compositions since we don't have type overlay to consider.

An example of this is a project that I recently shot for Cargill Turkey. Here is the newly updated website with the recipe photographs I shot, as well as the recent national Ad that is running in magazines like Martha Stewart Living, Eating Well, Cooking Light and Real Simple amoung others.

http://www.honeysucklewhite.com

Chanel and it's Luxurious Colors

Chanel has always evoked an ooh and ahhh from anyone like myself who has grown up watching their glamorous grandmother or mother take out the black sleek compact or lipstick and apply luxurious color to their face. Chanel evokes that fantasy- of beauty and classic style. It was befitting that I collaborated with my french friend Philippine Scali (former creative director of Pottery Barn) on creating these images. Philippine travels the world, including frequent trips to Morocco to source beautiful things for a new interiors brand. So exotic!

Hot Lips- Working with Cosmetics

I am primarily a food photographer, but like to extend my aesthetic to other subjects. Cosmetics are something I have always been drawn to, even as a kid. The vibrant colors and smooth luscious textures have always been appealing to me. I find that a lot of cosmetic photography tends to take a clinical approach   so I wanted to shoot some in a more emotive, natural way while still maintaining   the playfulness of color and texture inherent the products.