Food shoot for an online food mag featuring a local gem in the city center.
"The venue has developed one of the city’s most extensive beer menus to accompany its creative twists on the typical foods of Brazil’s Northeast – a region multitudes of migrants left in the last century, seeking a better life the country’s more prosperous Southeast." - Taylor Barnes
Read the story here: Aconchego Carioca
An October travel assignment for the New York Times travel section sent me to Sebasotpol for the day to photograph their eclectic food and arts scene.
These assignments are always really fun, but they can be super crazy and stressful as I'm usually running around with my shotlist photographing places and people under varies lighting conditions. I try to shoot indoors when its in the afternoon and outside places when the light is softer. Sometimes I have to be at two places at the same time as I'm trying to compete with time before the light falls. Its just hectic sometimes! But I always meet really cool people and discover new places, such as one of the best thrift stores I have ever been too, Aubergine.
Sebastopol is also home to some very creative people, and one of them is Patrick Amiot, whom is picture in my outtakes. I also want to thank his wife Brigitte Laurent for giving me a private tour of their home, Mr. Amiot for showing me his "studio," which is pretty much a very cool junkyard, and a photographer's paradise to photograph.
The town also has really incredible food. I was also lucky to photograph a farm (this was off the list but I really wanted to go) where most of the foods for dishes at the restaurant, Peter Lowell, are grown.
Here's a recent webclip and outtakes of a shoot I did in San Francisco for this July's issue of Inc Magazine. The image ran about a half of a page in the magazine, but since I'll be on the road for the next couple weeks, Im posting this web clip.
I recieved a call to photograph three of the top 30 under 30 entreprenuers, for a smartphone app they've created called, Foodspotting, as they ate their way through 18th St in the Mission. It was there I had my first taste of Bi-Rite Creamery's salted caramel and toasted coconut ice cream deliciousness. From there, I photographed them photographing tarts and cappucinos at Tartine Bakery, pizzas and pasta at Deflinas as they sampled their way with iphones.
Below are the outtakes....
Foodspotting for Inc Magazine - Images by Lianne Milton
well this isn't so much from the archive as its only been a month, but, i just wanted to post something different...inpromtu bbq at a favorite spot near the beach. the boys gathered the usual meats, and the "sauce" was beer. whats with guys pouring their beer over the meat? anyway, it was chilly to say the least. while the teriyaki glazed steak and spicey chicken, with tasty margaritas, filled our tummy's, we pretty much stayed huddled around the grill until dark...
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My neighborhood!!
I got a call last month for another New York Times "Surfacing" column. Was so surprised to hear that I was to photograph my neighborhood....(disclaimer: there are several places not mention, one being my favorite stomping ground, the Pizza Place on Noriega. This column allows only for 5 different locations. So i know the writer must of had such a hard time choosing).
Outer Sunset is such a small community...many surfers, artists, skaters, and families. We - my boyfriend George, our dog, Reese and I are so fortunate to finally move back to the area and get to know our neighbors. yes we take long walks on the beach and stumble home from the bar around the corner. we can even smell a beached whale from on-shore winds. and the days of bright blue skies and no wind are just magical. There is a reason why it is called the Sunset...Unfortunately, the weekend I shot this assignment, it was dumping rain. all. day. long.
Historically the Outer Sunset was called "Carville" before homes from the 40s were built, during the era of the Cliff House and Sutro Baths. It was a graveyard for street cars (trains). People eventually converted these street cars into homes. And soon after development began and families moved to the beach.
See pictures in the NYT: In San Francisco, a Bleak Neighborhood Is Revived
Below is a slideshow of the images, including outtakes:
Destinaton: Outer Sunset, San Francisco (for NYT) - Images by Lianne Milton
Boonville, the biggest town in this small valley, has always been a place I wanted to visit. And fortunately I got to see much of Anderson Valley through this assignment. The intense drive up Hwy 128 is very much the same through Sonoma and Napa counties (minus the bicyclists); your eyes rarely leave the squiggly road. I fell in love with the redwood forest, the apple orchards, and an old roadhouse turned quaint hotel. I finally tasted the wheat beer at Anderson Valley Brewing Company and witnessed the convergence of redwoods and vineyards in one blink. Click here for the story and slideshow: Overnight in Anderson Valley, Calif. Below are my outtakes from the assignment.
Hi there! Lately I've been only posting pictures so here's some words.
Last Thursday i went to exposure gallery in sf to see friend photographer kevin german show his on-going documentary work in vietnam. kevin is an inspiration. he is a thoughtful photographer who jumped from newspaper photography to being his own now based in Vietnam. You can see his work here:
www.kevingerman.com
I myself have been catching up on wedding pictures, and have yet to begin editing my journalism stories from Mexico...and lately I have been shooting for the sf chronicle. i visited my old stomping ground foreign cinema a couple weeks ago where i worked 10 years ago in its first year, now under different ownership. Here are some images from that shoot of the husband/wife team and kids:
http://www.gourmet.com/winespiritsbeer/2009/03/real-mojitos
I received a surprising call from photo editor Ryan Schick at Conde Nast's Gourmet for a web photo. As a reader of Gourmet magazine and a fan of their photography, I was quite excited to see one of my images make it to a food publication!
I photographed an intro to tea class at the oxbow marketplace in napa for the newspaper a couple of months ago. i would, someday, love to go to china to photograph the tea farmers during harvest. it just seems so beautiful. whole leaf tea is what my mother and grandmother always drank. esp. my grandmother who came from the guangdong region of southern china. and this afternoon i went to my first tea tasting in berkeley, called teance. its amazing that for centuries asian countries, including india, have been drinking incredible teas while the rest drink the crap out of lipton and the like. it is like drinking a 2 buck chuck rather then a 20 bottle of wine. good tea is like good health.