Food Photography
(In Studio or On Location)
Natural Food Styling & Prop Styling
Restaurant Photography
Food Product Photography
food event photography
Recipe Development
Food Writing
Recipe Testing Services
Food Product Evaluation
Chef Services, Exclusive Catering
Twenty-seven years in food & beverage brought me here today. I wore every hat from server to line-cook to chef, from bookkeeper to manager and then later in my career, as the owner of a boutique California wine brokerage company.
Taste With The Eyes was born in 2007 of a life-long passion for cooking and entertaining plus a keen interest in photography and the visual aspect of food in general. It has been my absolute honor to work with world-class chefs and world-class companies as well as small local restaurants and important local charities.
I am an omnivore with a broad and discerning palate; fortunate to have traveled quite a bit and dined at some the world’s finest restaurants from LA to Chicago to Las Vegas, New York to Paris, as well as the local hole-in-the-walls too. It would be my pleasure to Test Your Cookbook or Brand Recipes for taste, appearance, accuracy, and appeal. I have a special fondness for esoteric ingredients. In fact, the yuzu fruit for the Yuzu Tea in the image above is from my LA garden.
Table setting had been a hobby of mine for almost three decades, culminating in several Blue Ribbons from the Los Angeles County Fair in the tablescape competitions. My china, glass, and silver collection is now used for Props for Styling food photography. I have amassed a pretty wide array of tableware and cookware that coax out the best qualities of the dish for the camera.
Also please note, I do only Natural Food Styling; I achieve the beautiful images without using un-natural products or the toxic old tricks of yesteryear’s food images. All of my finished images are authentic, completely edible and delicious!
It would be my pleasure to work with you, your restaurant, your publication, or your brand to create beautiful mouthwatering images, amazing recipes, or capture one-of-a-kind events to help promote your business.
Be they large or small, I’m excited to talk about your food-related and/or photography needs, please contact me here.
RESTAURANT PHOTO SHOOTS
From a few tempting dishes for social media to an entire website upgrade, Lori Lynn’s Restaurant Food Photography will showcase the best of your menu and your restaurant. Please contact Lori for introductory promotions and special pricing. Let’s work together!
Restaurant Shoots:
- 22nd St. Landing
- Baran’s 2239
- Bashi
- British Bankers Club
- Brouwerij West
- Catalina Kitchen
- Gina Lee’s Bistro
- Gladstone’s Long Beach
- Gravity
- Los Angeles Harbor College Culinary Dept.
- mar sel
- Nelson’s
- Palo Alto Creamery
- Parker’s Lighthouse
- Reposado
- Scratch
- Sea Beans
- Terranea Resort
FOOD PRODUCT PHOTOGRAPHY
Lori Lynn’s Packaging Photography can be seen on supermarket shelves in 22 countries around the world. In the U.S. at Costco, Whole Foods Markets, Sprouts, Albertsons, Jewel, Mariano’s, Walmart, Smiths, Ralphs, Safeway, and many more.
FOOD EVENT PHOTOGRAPHY
From large events along the coast to small fundraisers around the pool, Lori Lynn will Photograph your Food Event capturing the atmosphere with all the love and creativity that you put into planning your special affair.
examples:
Cabrillo Marine Aquarium
Sustainable Seafood Expo and Chef’s Table Dinner
Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy
Palos Verdes Pastoral Garden-to-Table Dining Experience
Celebrating Butterflies, Bees, Birds and other Pollinators
Magnificent Mediterranean Theme
More Enchanted Events: 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012
Brouwerij West
Love and Craft Beer
Beer Dinner with Chef Kyle Powers
A Unique Venue Holiday Party
Taste of San Pedro (in print only)
Teacher Appreciation Luncheons
Baseball Theme
Farmers Market Theme
Hawaiian Theme
National Parks Theme
Eco-Friendly Theme
Terranea Resort
Chef Services
I absolutely love to cook and create and amaze…for a crowd, as in 90,000 people for five years at Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, CA or for intimate dinner parties and events in the Los Angeles and Las Vegas areas.
CHEF services are now available for LAS VEGAS private parties, cooking classes, expos and conventions!
Natural Products Expo West
IDDBA (International Dairy Deli Bakery Association)
Sip & Savor supporting The Celiac Disease Foundation
Sunken City Supper Club (Pop-Up Restaurant)
Taste With The Eyes Exclusive Catering Company
RECIPE DEVELOPMENT
Explore Cuisine
Gluten-Free Pasta Recipes
Vegan Pasta Recipes
Family Friendly Pasta Recipes
Gluten-Free Lasagna Recipes
Halloween/Holiday Pasta Recipes
Allergen-Free Recipes
Grocery Outlet
Elegant Dinner for under $4 per person
Food & Wine Pairings
SuperSeedz
Gourmet Pumpkin Seed Recipes
Gourmet Attitude Fresh Truffles and Truffle Products
Flatbread Pizza with Mushroom, Walnut, Black Truffle Sauce
Truffle Poached Egg, Asparagus, Black Truffle & Potato Stack
Potato Bites with Truffle Oil and Chive Blossoms
Pan-Seared Sea Scallops with Champagne Truffle Cream
Truffle Carpaccio
Bacon-Wrapped Pork Loin with Truffle Honey
Marx Foods
Merino Lamb
Edible Insects
Great Giant Pineapple
Goat Cheese Flatbread with Pineapple Salsa, Fresh Herbs
Quinoa Blueberry Spinach Salad with Pineapple Vinaigrette
Spicy Pickled Pineapple
Napa Cabbage Salad with Peanuts, Creamy Pineapple Dressing
Pineapple Ginger Crisp
Lifeway Kefir
Chilled Kefir Soup With Cucumber, Herbs, and Kefir “Waves”
Purple Pierogi Ruskie Stuffed with Purple Potato & Farmer Cheese
Latkes with Farmer Cheese and Pomegranate Arils
Heavenly Farmer Cheese Blintzes
Chilled Soup Bliss – Beet, Fennel, Kefir, Sour Cream Horseradish
Nubocha Dairy Free Gelato
Gelato Parfaits
Gelato Floats
Hatch Chile Store
Grilled Artichoke, Hatch Chile Garlic Mayonnaise
AS SEEN ONLINE
Some of Lori Lynn’s original recipes have been featured online on popular sites such as Taste of Home, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, Reader’s Digest, Fox News Magazine, and Self Magazine.
Taste of Home
- 10 Adorable Mini Cast-Iron Skillet Recipes here
BuzzFeed
- 15 Grill Recipes That Will Take You Straight To Meat Heaven here
The Huffington Post
- Matzo Ball Recipes That Are Almost As Good As Your Mother’s here
- Spinach Recipes For When You’re Sick Of Kale here
- 23 Cod Recipes You’ll Want To Cook Tonight here
- Leftover Champagne Recipes That Make Great Use Of Your Bubbly here
Reader’s Digest
- What Is Gefilte Fish? here
SELF Magazine
- How to Cook with Seaweed, the latest It ingredient here
Plus more Food Photography and/or Recipes seen online on several sites including these links:
Los Angeles Times, Observer, Sport Sister, Healthy Living Magazine, Vitacost, Explore Cuisine.
BI-WEEKLY COLUMNS IN PRINT
Articles, recipes, and interviews were featured bi-weekly in two different LA area publications over several years in Random Lengths News and the Korea Herald Business section in conjunction with the LA Times. Since it is a huge body of work, that is in print, here are links to a few examples that were shared on Taste With The Eyes.
Random Lengths News
example articles:
- Meet Terranea Resort’s Executive Chef Bernard Ibarra here
- Liquor License Ordeal has Happy Ending for Chianina Steakhouse here
- Sushi School here
- Interview with Chef Sam Choy on Sustainability and Poke here
- Understanding Umami here
Korea Herald Business
example articles:
- K-POP Korean Popcorn here
- Buch Jeon 부추전 {garlic chive blossom pancake} here
- Gochujang Chicken Adobo and Chef Hooni Kim here
- A Smoky Old-School Korean Bar (in LA) here
Harbor Living Magazine
- Chef Merhej’s Lovely Melon Salad here
WORK WITH LORI LYNN
For more information on photoshoots, recipes, chef services, stories, links, pricing or availability
please contact me here.
“The pleasures of the table, and of life, are infinite – — toujours bon appétit!”
Julia Child