About

 

Laurie

Laurie is the main cook in our home, and I'm very thankful for that! She really knows how to pull a meal together. Even our leftovers (or, as we call them, LOs) are a feast. For her, cooking is a hobby. It allows her to relax and to be creative, and I gratefully reap the benefits!

Peter

I'm the one writing the blog posts and taking the photos.  While I snap the food photos, Laurie is doing (most of) the cooking. I've done lots of landscapes, travel, and macro photography, and enjoy posting images to peterfraileyphoto on Instagram or to my photography Web site, peterfraileyphoto.com. Food photography is a recent addition.

Overall

What you will see on essentiallycooking will be mostly photographs of food being prepared to be actually eaten, often right away while it is hot! Nothing is being cooked just for the photography of it. I call this "candid food photography".

Photo Gear

I couldn't do this without a wide ranging zoom lens (Olympus  F4 24-200mm equivalent with 1:2 macro capability) and a manual flash with diffuser and flag, as I need to reach around Laurie or run to the other side of the kitchen island to get the shot. All photos are shot in RAW format and processed in Adobe Lightroom.

Thank you for visiting with us,

~Peter