Bruschetta The Perfect Food

Imagine the possibilities! Smoked salmon, fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, salty pistachios, the sweetness of honey or apricot preserves, the deep pungent taste of basil with garlic, cheese and olive oil…then top it off with toasted crunchy bread. Heaven on earth!

Whatever you can think of in any combination can be simply placed on a crispy bite sized piece of toasted bread…capers, white beans and parsley…I could go on forever.

Holiday Pancakes

There’s nothing like food for the holidays…when I say food I mean pancakes from scratch…Butter Milk pancakes. I really had my fill! I wish this was a scratch and sniff post!

Snowman To Go

It’s that time of the year to send joyful holiday wishes to all of you with great exceptions for a wonderful 2012!

Peace,

Rick

Illy Coffee

Peter Shikany from PS Studios contacted me to shoot a recipe booklet for his client Illy Coffee. The main content of the project were recipes for drinks that fit into different times of the day to show the versatility of the product. This assignment is exactly what I love to shoot…tight graphic images.

Here’s the layouts Peter supplied followed by a few spreads from the booklet.

Thanks goes out to my assistant Robert Humanski, Creative Director Peter Shikany and Art Director Andy Cruz!

Save The Date Oct. 20th

Just  a heads up…The Portraits Of Opportunity exhibit I participated in along with other area photographers is this Thursday night. Southwest Human Development started this fundraiser 3 years ago…a wonderful organization. Check out the Channel 8 interview with Laura Chasko and me.

http://www.azpbs.org/horizonte/detailvid.php?id=798

Fall: My Favorite Time Of The Year

I found some very cool pumpkins at Trader Joe’s that were just screaming to be photographed. Fall means Halloween and its right around the corner…time to hit the streets and shop for the orange squash!

 

Portraits Of Opportunity 2011

The third annual Portraits of Opportunity show is coming this October 20, 2011 from 6:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M. and is being held at The Memorial Hall at Steele Indian School Park. I’m proud to join my fellow Phoenix photographers for the third year in a row celebrating the families that have been helped by Southwest Human Development.

Renuzit 2009

I totally forgot about this project. I found it while going through project folders today. It’s a shoot for Dial Renuzit’s web site presence and was produced as an online magazine. I throughly enjoyed this shoot and thought I’d share it with you. This was done a couple of years ago for Santy Integrated Marketing with art director Adam Pierno. My thanks go out to Santy of course (which is now part of Air Marketing) my assistant Ken Clark aka “Macgyver” and stylist Kim Krejca.

An Apple A Day….

I like grabbing my camera and going on a photo-safari…what I call “A Walk About.” I decided to cruise the neighborhood by the studio and I found a lot of cool things that I would have never seen if I were driving. As I walked I saw a ton of red shapes that turned out to be apple cores…cool! I went back to the studio, grabbed a trash bag and harvested the apple cores and brought my new found booty back to the studio to shoot.

Fun In The Kitchen #2

I love the days when I can shoot for myself. I enjoy building still lifes of ingredients and then showing the process of the preparation of a recipe. Simply stated I want to share with you some of my exploration.