Women's Health/ Stone Fruit & Cocktails

Photography by Romulo Yanes 

Photography by Romulo Yanes  

Photography by Romulo Yanes 

Photography by Romulo Yanes 

Main Photograph: Romulo Yanes

Main Photograph: Romulo Yanes 

For the July Issue of Women's Health, I was asked again to contribute to their food pages for the July Issue. Once again I got to work with Photographer Romulo Yanes and it was once again such a pleasure as always. The stories we shot were on Skinny Cocktails and Stone Fruit, everybody's favorite in Summer. The palette was relatively neutral for Some Fruits but I was instructed to pick up the colors of the fruit themselves ever so slightly so I wove in some pale lilac's and pinks, but offset it with some blues and greens on neutral backgrounds, For cocktails it was all about choosing the right silhouettes for the drinks, Making sure they all looked different and had a mixture of classic but interesting shapes. When shooting cocktails you often need a ready supply of many multiples of the same clean glass as they need to be refreshed in the shot often 2/3 times before getting the perfect one. This is harder when three are in the shot at the same time : )   


The food  and drinks were styled by the very talented Victoria Granof who is well known for working with the late and great Photographer Irving Penn for over a decade. Her approach to food she sums up as saying on her website "It's about the emotion" I would have to agree, her passion shines through, I always love watching a Food Stylist at work, It is indeed a very specialized profession as some would say is also mine, We all in this industry get paid to make often difficult things look very simple.