Moving on to part 2 of my Atlanta Food&Wine Festival Weekend (see part 1 here)... It's always a pleasure shooting events for Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles Magazine. They are a pleasure to work with and their events are always beautiful! This most recent event was definitely my favorite combining two great arts: food + design. ADAC, Atlanta Homes, and the Rathbun brothers joined forces to collaborate upcoming designers with upcoming chefs, appropriately named The Watch List party. Designers + chefs were asked to come up with spaces and dishes that reflected each others ideas. For example (and my favorite), a beautiful pink and cream room paired with the most delicate fruit pavlova dish. Such a neat idea... Enjoy!
Atlanta Food & Wine Festival 2014
Oh, Food & Wine, you are an interesting beast.... a festival after my own heart and anxieties. I do love food, and I love the people that create food. I certainly love all those people together in one small area showing off their specialties and creations for me to consume for free. But then you add heat and humidity, LOTS of booze, very little water, plus the masses, and you have a whole different can of worms. But that's just what the annual Atlanta Food & Wine festival is... a whole different fun and sweaty can of worms. mmmm, yum!
Via Zagat, I had a wonderful time this year visiting the tents on Saturday. I ran into so many of my favorite faces: Angus Brown of Lusca prepping a ricotta tart with tomatoes, Turnip Truck making a DELICIOUS strawberry Gazpacho with local Georgia strawberries, Martha McMillin with Preserving Place showing off her Onion Confit spread, Revolution Doughnuts and their local peach slider doughnut, and Mims Bledsoe of The Pie Shop doing a really cool Cherry Habanero Pie. A few newbies to me included Seven Lamps and their Pimento Cheese, which was good and had me interested in a visit. I also was very impresses with Barnsley Gardens asparagus and prosciutto dish as well as their whole table. AND Central BBQ from Memphis brought some bacon wrapped something (does not matter what it was, it was wrapped in bacon) that looked awesome, but was long gone before I could get to it.
first look: Lusca Atlanta
I'm excited for the boys of Lusca. And I was very pleased that it was my first assignment for Zagat Atlanta. If you haven't been, GO NOW!
Atlanta Steeplechase
It's always such a pleasure teaming up with Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles Magazine for anything and it's especially wonderful to join them for their annual Chairman's Tent at the Atlanta Steeplechase. I had such a blast capturing the day and the people of Steeplechase. If possible, I could've just sat and people watched all day with a side of horse race watching of course.!
Caitlin + Nathaniel
I had the extreme pleasure of shooting Caitlin + Nathaniel's super cool wedding this past week and I could not have had more fun. Having met and started dating while both playing in the Carnivores, Caitlin + Nathaniel put music at the center of their wedding employing a bandmate with officiating and friends and bandmates to be official DJ's. They are seriously one of the coolest couples I've ever photographed and I love how their style was perfectly displayed in their nuptials.
Congrats Caitliin + Nathaniel! you guys are amazing.
Food by CANDLER PARK MARKET: fried chicken, roasted brussels sprouts, green salad, mac+ cheese, biscuits, cookie sandwich bar. SO PERFECT!
Venue: The Lake House at Avondale Estates... perfect for intimate events!
