Former chef at Mugaritz and the most recent sous chef at the blazing hot Atera Restaurant in New York City, Zach Hunter, flew back to San Diego to hang out with his old crew to put on an amazing 9-course (plus 4 snacks) pop up dinner at Delicias in Rancho Santa Fe, CA. Chef Hunter [...]

Another amazing shoot at D Bar: a restaurant run by Chef Keegan Gerhard of Food Network Challenge.

Client: D Bar San Diego Website: dbarsandiego.com

The first time I ever took Joon’s picture (months before his wedding) I told him “we need to work on your smile.” Not that he had a bad one but it certainly looked forced and uncomfortable at times. You could tell he didn’t practice it in the mirror on the regular. Joon and Jess are [...]

Scripps Forum in La Jolla, CA is a dream wedding venue. The large, floor-to-ceiling windows reflect the expansive Pacific Ocean in a way that challenges anyone who is there to ponder if anyone can have a more beautiful backdrop to say “I do”. Ricky and Jane are adventurous people and long-time friends. They’re ambitious dreamers [...]

Jeff and Christine couldn’t ask for better weather at their Coronado wedding at Breaker’s Beach (San Diego, CA). The sky was cloudless and the temperature was a perfect 75 degrees. They also couldn’t ask for better company in their friends and family (who treated me like one of them from the start). Best of all, [...]

Con Pane has been a long time staple of many dinner tables around San Diego. Their old world approach to bread is rare and their commitment to the most delicious and fragrant loaves is even more rare.

Photography by: Lynn Chyi Food Styling by: Lynn Chyi, Chef Steven Molina, Chef Paul McCabe Client: Delicias, Rancho Santa Fe, CA.

I was approached by Mama’s Kitchen to take a series of portraits of the organization’s main pillars: volunteers, donors, and clients. Throughout the month long process of making these images, I got to learn about an entire network of human beings who are not only dedicated to helping MK’s mission but thrilled to be doing [...]

I’m working on Ingredients Part III now and shooting things I rarely have in my kitchen: rhubarb stalks and whole green garlic. Rhubarb has such a unique scent and the most graceful curves. It instantly reminded me of the lines of a sports car so I decided to treat the lighting that way. Green garlic [...]

Part two of the series on ingredients. View the first part here.

Have you ever thought to look at the things that we eat? Especially the things that are grown from nature? They are beautiful to behold and gorgeous to look at. Often times, they are works of art within themselves. This series on ingredients focuses on food in a very unadulterated manner. Ingredients Part II