Food photos from Nautical Nellies Restaurant
In the spring of 2010 I was working on my graduation portfolio. I had decided to shoot food, and my instructors (Andrea and Mitch) mentioned a few restaurants that I might want to contact. One of them was Nautical Nellies Restaurant. They graciously let me come in to shoot, and prepared eight different dishes for me. I used three of them, and they then got the photos for their own use. A win-win situation.
One of the photos even ended up traveling around Victoria for a few months on the back of a bus.
Fast forward to November 2011. I'm back at Nautical Nellies, and this time shooting at their request. Five different dishes - and a big portion of the two sushi dishes got eaten afterwards by me and Carrie, who was my assistant for the assignment.
If you ever get a chance to eat at Nautical Nellies, don't waste that chance. The food tastes as good as it looks.
Steak, crab cake and jumbo prawns with prosciutto wrapped asparagus, roast garlic crushed fingerling potatoes and shiraz reduction.
This seafood tower contains smoked oysters, crab claws, sushi rolls, steamed mussels, clams and more.
Lobster sushi roll with Atlantic lobster, baby shrimp, tobiko and scallions, topped with warm unagi and avocado.
A different view of the lobster roll.
Lobster on a bus
I was driving in Langford yesterday with my family, when my wife all of a sudden exclaimed "That's your photo! On the back of that bus!" I just caught a glimpse of it as the bus turned, but enough to recognize it. It was one of the photos from my school portfolio.
When I was shooting my portfolio, which was all food, one of the restaurants I shot at was Nautical Nellies in downtown Victoria. When we came there, they conjured up eight different courses, one of which was a delicious looking lobster and steak. And that was the photo that my wife saw on the bus yesterday.
The lobster and steak image I used in my portfolio.
So naturally I went bus hunting this morning, before heading to a meeting with former classmate Devin Milner. And while driving down Douglas Street, I caught sight of my photo on a bus. It wasn't too hard keeping up with the bus, and it finally came to a halt on Humboldt Street, where it seemed to wait patiently while I snapped a few photos.
And here it is, in all its glory, my first bus image. Some of my images are already on Nautical Nellies' website, but seeing one on a bus was a different kind of fun.
Nautical Nellies ad on the back of a bus, featuring my food photography.