Sweet apple pie.
I know it seems really random, since this is my word blog, but it does tie in: I am a writer, and as an aspiring magazine writer (aspiring, beginning, whatever) I subscribe to a lot of magazines.
Mostly it’s magazines I would like to write for: Budget Travel, Conde Nast Traveler, Travel & Leisure, Coastal Living, Seattle, Sunset etc. But I also subscribe to food magazines. This is for several reasons. First of all, I’d love to do a little food writing. Second, many of them feature travel stories in their pages and so it kind of becomes a hybrid travel-food writing mix. And third, because I love the pictures.
There’s something about food photographs in glossy magazine spreads that’s so sensual and makes you want to eat it right off the page.
Now the other connection is that I am also a beginning photographer. It’s funny to me that I’m a beginning photographer who is also, technically, a professional photographer. When I started at the newspaper, I was positively terrible. I mean total crap. But since I have taken a class, and I’m feeling like I’ve become, maybe, a mediocre photographer now.
So I’m going to start taking some food photographs, I’ve decided. Because it looks fun, and yummy. And since I’m a newlywed, my husband and I have been cooking almost every night with our shiny new pots, pans and knives, so there should be lots of opportunities for that kind of thing.
The sweet apple pie picture was also taken by my husband, Eric (who’s so new as a husband that it’s weird to write the word ‘husband’) long before we were married or even engaged. I was baking him an apple pie for his birthday.
So if they come out alright, maybe I’ll post them here. We’ll see.