http://www.dougcrouch.com Equisite Images Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:53:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Another great story in a face. http://www.dougcrouch.com/portraits/another-great-face/ Carrots are the best vegetable source of  Vitamin A.  To see more great food shots go here. http://www.dougcrouch.com/stilllife/get-your-vitamin-a/ [caption id="attachment_539" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Fallow Deer fawn"][/caption] This is an image I made this evening of Darrell and a Fallow Deer fawn that was born today. Darrell raises Fallow Deer on his 5 acre farm in Washington a few miles from where we live. It took us 30 minutes to find ... http://www.dougcrouch.com/portraits/fallow-deer/ We spent a couple of days in Walla Walla, Washington this week shooting at the Baker Boyer Bank for an editorial assignment. What a great bank and charming town. Baker Boyer has been around for 139 years, since 1869 and is Washington's oldest bank. Unfortuantely we didn't get to any ... http://www.dougcrouch.com/portraits/walla-walla-washington-editorial-photo-assignment/ Recently we worked on  the Keybank Annual Report and part of the photography took place at JA Biztown in Portland. JA Biztown is a hands-on-learning simulation that exposes students to the way business and the American free enterprise system work. This little guy was a bank teller and took his ... http://www.dougcrouch.com/portraits/keybank-annual-report/ For a few months I've been working with Focus on Youth, an organization of volunteers that helps at-risk youth by teaching them photography skills. This is Jesse one of the students we work with -  a great kid, very polite and has a really good eye for photography. You can ... http://www.dougcrouch.com/portraits/focus-on-youth/ I saw this gentleman outside a bookstore in Portland and couldn't resist asking him if I could take his picture. He seemed delighted and when I complemented him about his hat he explained that it was his favorite fishing hat. When it get's soaked with rain you take it off, ... http://www.dougcrouch.com/portraits/another-story-etched-in-a-face-by-time/ I don't know who invented the tart, but they must have been evil.  These things are addicting and sometimes you have to get a dozen of them to find the one perfect for the shot. So, what do ya do with the rest of em'? Guess? I've gained 30 lbs ... http://www.dougcrouch.com/still-lifefood/cranberry-apple-tart-more-food-photography/ These are two of the students from the Focus on Youth organization that works to empower at-risk youth through photography classes. We teach the students how to use film cameras, process film and make prints in an 8 week period. It's been interesting to go back into the darkroom after ... http://www.dougcrouch.com/personal-work/focus-on-youth-photography-organiztion/ The best thing about photographing food is when the job is over - you get to eat the food. http://www.dougcrouch.com/still-lifefood/forget-love-id-rather-fall-in-chocolate-anonymous/