Melinda Holland Photography

06/28/2010

Clara, Eight Days Old

Filed under: Baby,Portraits — Tags: , , , , , — Melinda @ 2:39 pm

Clara on greenThis is little Clara at eight days old. She was sooo tiny. Just a little feather of a thing, weighing in around 6 lbs. As you can imagine, her parents, Nick & Tuzdy are already very much in love with her.

Also, I want to give a shout-out to Justin White for letting me borrow his bean bag for this shoot. The bean bag made a great base for Clara to sleep on. Thanks Justin!

I’ll be sure to post more photos once I climb out from under the mountain of photo projects that need my attention!

06/21/2010

Vegan Chef Charmaine Daniels

Vegan Chef Charmaine Daniels having fun in the kitchen.Havin’ Fun in the Kitch-Un!

Vegan chef Charmaine Daniels and I had a great time tooling around the kitchen last Wednesday. Thanks to Jim & Donna for providing a FABULOUS location for this shoot. Bright, airy, scenic, clean. Great specs for a food shoot.

I love photographing food, Charmaine loves to cook, and we both love to eat good, tasty, colorful food–and it just so happens to be super healthy and vegan. Just look at her. She’s fit and gorgeous!

Be watching for more photos as she whips up a super fresh and tasty tabbouleh/tabouli…(However it’s spelled…I found about 9 thousand different spellings on Google…)

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A few of the ingredients.

Ingredients-mint, lemon, tomato, parsley, cucumber.Check out the size of this knife.

Parsley & KnifeChoppin’ up fresh parsley, green onion and mint. The aromas were wonderful. Especially the mint.

By the way, I love how the green onion reflects off the knife in the middle photo. So shiny…

Charmaine cutting greens.The dish is starting to come together. Beautiful! I never tire of these complementary colors in food.

Adding the Tomatoes

Cucumbers…

Dicing a cucumber

Adding the cucumbers, fresh lemon juice and bulgur wheat (bulgur was soaked in water, then drained).

Putting the Tabbouleh togetherDrizzling some delicious extra-virgin olive oil into the mix.

Pouring the olive oil on the Tabbouleh.Look at Charmaine! Isn’t she the cutest chef?!Charmaine

Then it was out to the balcony for a lovely alfresco portrait.

The wind was mighty and blowing her hair all over the place, but we managed to get some nice shots. I do love the spontaneous look of this portrait.Charmaine dining alfrescoThanks for joining me on this food journey. Hope you enjoyed it. Until next time….

06/17/2010

The Petersons

Filed under: Baby,Portraits — Tags: , , — Melinda @ 12:24 pm

Preview of my shoot with the Peterson family. Such nice people. I didn’t expect them to feed me lunch and carry my gear… Wow! I’m not used to such treatment on a portrait shoot. And they’re so good looking. The camera loves them! Thanks, Peterson family, for a fun shoot! More photos to come.

Cheryl with baby K (black & white)Nic & Baby K, silly, fist in mouth

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