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Salaryman, Surry Hills

January 4, 2016 in Café Profile, Photo Post | 3 comments

Taking photos is more than pressing a button on a machine. Sometimes I agree, sometimes I disagree with this sentiment, however there’s certainly an element of problem solving that goes hand in hand with the responsibility of making things look nice. For example: providing images of a restaurant when the restaurant doesn’t exist yet. Aside from the obvious interiors, all of the food, drink, ingredient and people photos below were taken along a wharf on a sunny Sydney day while Salaryman was still under construction. “We want them to look dark and gritty”. “Sure, no problem *tugs collar*“. Not pictured: obnoxious seagull knocking over one of the delicate ramen bowls.

Warning for the sensitive: pig carcass below.

Tags: ramen, salaryman, surry hills

Brooklyn Social, Surry Hills

July 8, 2014 in Café Profile | 11 comments

In yet another relentless edition of I’ve had no time to cook and take photos of my glorious dinners so here are some photos I dun did elsewhere, here are just a few fried press snaps of fried fun taken for Surry Hills’ latest, Brooklyn Social. I’m not a girl, not yet a blogger.

Styled by Nathan Sullivan, please enjoy the divey, hungover, burgers-on-wood goodness below. Drown yourself in hotdogs and face plant into some ribs.

Tags: bar, brooklyn social, burgers, surry hills

Single Origin Roasters, Surry Hills

March 25, 2014 in Café Profile | 14 comments

Single Origin Roasters: where coffee rules and so does their salmon dish, the beards are abundant and the service isn’t just friendly, it’s a straight up party. Photo bombers run rampant (it’s a good thing). And now they’re open on Saturdays!

Tags: coffee, single origin roasters, surry hills

Lately on Broadsheet II

November 6, 2013 in Photo Post | 6 comments

I promised myself I would avoid another “clip show” like post, however, my kitchen is being renovated therefore I have no means of cooking outside of a microwave and I wish to #post some #content. I’ve found myself taking less and less food photos these days, which is cool, a good photographer should be a Jack of Many Trades so it’s nice to learn-by-doing taking photos of nice spaces and friendly heads. The word “food” still hangs in the header of this humble website however so I’ve collected most food-related photos from good times recently at Broadsheet Sydney.

Although I don’t have any life-changing advice, my one take away from the past few months is simple (and a bit horrible); there is no greater feel than walking straight to the front of the mammoth line at Mamak in Haymarket. Sorry about that everyone. I’ve never felt more important in my entire life.

Black Star Pastry, Newtown

Hartsyard, Enmore

Simon Said Providores

Nomad Restaurant, Surry Hills

The Cow and The Moon, Enmore

Miss Peaches Soul Food Kitchen, Newtown

The Clubhouse, Rosebery

Earl’s Juke Joint, Enmore

In The Annex, Forest Lodge

Hello Sailor, Darlinghurst

Suzy Spoon’s Vegetarian Butcher, Newtown

Ombretta, Glebe

Kitchen by Mike, Rosebery

The Henson, Marrickville

The Dip, Sydney CBD

Glicks, Bondi

Mamak Village, Glebe

Bourke Street Bakery, Marrickville

Belle Fleur Fine Chocolates, Stanmore

Gelato Messina, Bondi

Soda Pony, Enmore

Mamak, Sydney CBD

Upstairs at The Bank, Newtown

The Cook House, Randwick

Noble Canteen, Sydney CBD

Little Mule, Stanmore

Bread and Circus, Alexandria

Hollywood and Vine, Surry Hills

The Counter, Petersham

A Vinous Nomad in Surry Hills
In The Club
Gelato Messina Opens By The Sea
A Better Birthday Cake By Hartsyard
A Day in the Life of Belle Fleur Chocolates
Hiding Out In The Annex
A Farmhouse in a Factory

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Lately on Broadsheet

March 13, 2013 in Outings, Photo Post, Thoughts | 13 comments

Consider this post an evolution of my time as an intern at Time Out Sydney; lately I’ve been contributing here and there to Sydney lifestyle publication Broadsheet. Please take my hand and join me on my ~photographic journey~.

As always the experience is doing my simple head in (in the best possible way) and with a job like this it’s difficult not to learn something new each day. Photography of this nature is not simply a case of pressing a button before a nicely presented plate (though I’m not denying a higher, more colourful dish is easier to shoot); it’s problem solving and adapting to the space, it’s finding where the light lays and learning how to use it to your advantage. If it sucks you need to manipulate, if it’s not there you need to create it. It’s easy in this day and age define a photographer simply by somebody who owns a camera and the better the camera the better the photo therefore the better the photographer BUT a long shutter speed or bokeh explosion won’t always make a good photo. You can own the fanciest camera with the biggest sensor on the most stable tripod but that won’t help either. Food photography is small and finicky so it’s difficult to hide any mistakes. All very obvious in theory but I sometimes forget these things in the moment, camera in hand, being caught in almost torrential rain with a big, ugly ute obscuring my dream angle (true story from the other week).

So, if there’s one thing I’ve leant these past few weeks it’s that circumstances may vary and you gotta deal with that. Again, very obvious, but I’m forgetful and this sentiment isn’t always at the forefront of my mind as it should be.

Epiphanies aside it’s been really nice walking around Sydney meeting wonderful people and occasionally trying their excellent food. Here are some photos from the past few weeks.

Chicken skewers @ Shortgrain