Tag: story
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Grueling Dark Slog at Goldie’s Seafood Bar & Grill, Canton, Baltimore MD
Well folks, this shoot at Goldie’s Seafood Bar & Grill on the northern-ish tip of Canton, Baltimore, was almost as good as this slog in West Virginia, fortunately including free and luckily easy parking. The premise of the shoot was looking pretty good on paper – nice 2PM appointment time, almost-a-full-menu kind of shoot at…
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Just Don’t Do It Then -Freddie’s Sports Bar & Grill – Parkville, MD
Imagine a Friday. Imagine a Friday in greater Baltimore area around 2pm, while a giant warehouse in the city happens to be on fire diverting traffic in every inconvenient direction when it comes to getting to Parkville by 3pm. Not a great way to end the day, I’ll tell you for sure. I barely get…
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Like a Living Conveyor Belt – Charles Town Family Diner, Charles Town WV
I love small town diners that manage to keep their almost-rustic charms. I like seeing huge menus that work for all tastes and times of day when they don’t overwhelm the kitchen. I can enjoy spacious places with several nooks to let people settle into the atmosphere they would prefer. I always appreciate friendly staff…
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Showroom, Frederick MD
As soon as I looked up where this place was, I got a familiar feeling and my gut sense was on-point – Showroom took over the space of the sadly closed, and VERY good old Family Meal that used to be a car dealership space completely revamped into an upscale fried chicken spot. So, what…
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Return to One of the Best – Top Spanish Cafe & Catering, Washington DC
Never would I ever have assumed that I’d get to revisit this legendary spot that is Top Spanish Cafe and Catering, located inconspicuously in the Southern area of Petworth, right off of Georgia Ave and Newton Pl NW. Being called a cafe is way, way too humble for the level of atmosphere and quality of…
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Absolute Flash Hilarity Re-shoot – Casolare (Glover Park Hotel Georgetown), Washington DC – story
Once upon a time, goober corporation decided to switch photo providing agencies for a brief period of time that ultimately flopped really hard due to horrible organization, that provided about a 3 month period where all the competition….erm, us co-worker photo monkeys got to somewhat meet each other being shoveled into a Slack chatroom and…
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Left Out of the Corporate Memo – Box’d Kitchen, Vienna VA
Box’d Kitchen is an interesting bubble tea meets Middle Eastern shmeat (or falafel) over rice, salad, or pita located about 2 lights down from Mosaic District at the Southern tip of Vienna, VA. This shoot went very well since their entire menu is super-quick to prep once the shoot actually happened. Oh how I don’t…
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Le Tried and Le True – Vie De France Bakery & Cafe, Potomac MD
Once upon a time I got to shoot one of my old, global faves that I discovered well before even picking up a camera, and the one you’ve all seen in just about any major city or area – Vie De France. The location I got to cover was not my original find, but it…
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Snowy Hell – AMG Wing Heaven, District Heights MD
Oh how I remember shooting this sorry ass location of AMG Wing Heaven in District Heights, MD, a few years back, right in the middle of a snow storm. Had to reschedule this one because “the store would be dead at a decent daylight time” aka we-wont-be-cooking-sh*t-for-the-shoot-specifically kind of cheap assery that I will put…
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Former Abi Ethiopian, now Shewa Ethiopian Restaurant, 1824 and 1826 Benning Rd NE, Washington DC
I’ve known this spot for years as they changed names, but their direction was always the same – standard fried food takeout with your standard burgers and cheesesteaks, as well as Ethiopian food given the good old owners being from there. I have shot them twice for corpos under Abi name, but double-checking the state…
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Use Your Own Phone! – Spice Kraft Indian Cuisine, Alexandria VA
To-date, Spice Kraft Indian Cuisine in Alexandria had some of the best presented Indian plates I’ve seen! Head chef cares about both flavor and the presentation, and as a former hobbyist photographer it shows in his dishes – Once he introduced himself to me with his brief, relevant backstory, both him and his manager brought…
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Heed Reviews – Anthony’s Anchors Aweigh Restaurant, Beltway Motel, Halethrope MD
Just look at those Maryland blue crabs! Hefty helping of Old Bay, nice and red – a plate full! And look at this spaghetti and meatballs with nice parmigiana bread to go with it! Shrimp salad, cheesesteak, crab cake plate – all look well above and beyond what the reviews started to shower this place…
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Baltimore’s Best – Frank’s Pizza & Pasta
When I receive a job for a pretty much entire menu of any place, it tends to raise flags of corpos being lazy and just throwing an arbitrary minimum number of plates that seldom ends up being so when I get to the place. I went ahead and rang Frank’s Pizza & Pasta to confirm,…
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American Airlines vs Japan Airlines – International Flight Meals and Booze
JAL Upgraded Flight Over It’s finally time for some stories from my brief trip to the land of the rising sun last year, and the only proper way to begin is with the airline meals and beverages offered. Major preface is to avoid American Airlines as much as possible, especially if you’re connecting flights since…
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Three Brothers Italian Restaurant, Greenbelt MD – Proper NY Slice
Not many of your favorite childhood places survive into your adulthood, for example an absolutely stunning local pizza spot that was off of Halpine Road in Twinbrook, MD, that had absolutely perfect zesty tomato sauce unlike your typical sweet kind, thin crust covered in flour on the bottom to avoid being sticky, and most importantly…
