Chugrad McAndrews Photography - San Francisco Food, Advertising and Catalog Photography

Safeway In Store Displays 4

chugradphoto — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:04:46 +0000

I have included two rounds in one again for this installment of the In Store Displays for Safeway. There were a few shots this time that had interesting challenges. The fist was shrimp and veggies falling from a Wok onto a bed of rice… getting all the individual pieces to end up where we wanted them [...]

Ndoro CD Project

chugradphoto — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:27:15 +0000

I am a huge fan of traditional music and dance forms from all over the world. I have participated as a student and performer with many different types of groups over the past 20 years. In recent years, one of the styles I have been drawn to is Tahitian drumming. When my teacher told me [...]

Incline Club

chugradphoto — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:21:22 +0000

My father is obsessed. So are his buddies… as well as over a hundred other people who showed up on a frozen morning to the first meeting of the year for the “Incline Club”. This is a group of people with a unified, monolithic obsession – it’s not a religion… or is it? Is it [...]

Bill and Potrero Nuevo Farm

chugradphoto — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:22:19 +0000

I am a believer in the Mentor system. We can all learn a great deal from certain individuals who we find particularly influential – ideally in mostly good ways. Often this happens when we are at key stages of transition such as high school, and with adults who are already working as teachers… this was [...]

Safeway In Store Displays 3

chugradphoto — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:55:08 +0000

For this installment of the In-Store Displays for Safeway, I am including two rounds in one. For October everything we shot had a pink theme for Breast Cancer Awareness month. For November, it was more of a holiday theme. One of the more fun shots we’ve done so far was this heart-shaped Peanut Butter and Jelly [...]

Ceviche Book

chugradphoto — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:48:27 +0000

I worked on another fantastic project with the folks at Ten Speed Press. They needed supplemental shots for a cookbook all about Ceviche called “The Great Ceviche Book”. They are issuing a revised version with some new recipes and wanted some fresh images to accompany them. I happily agreed.

Safeway In Store Displays 2

chugradphoto — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:01:28 +0000

For our second round of In Store Displays for Safeway, we shot a very elaborate composite with lots of cookies “flying” at the camera as if they’d just been kicked by a young boy playing soccer. We also did a few cookies for a different shot that were supposed to depict popular ways of eating [...]

Safeway In Store Displays

chugradphoto — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:29:36 +0000

I have had the good fortune to work with many wonderful people at Safeway producing images for an in-store display campaign. There is a new store in Santa Cruz, California that is taking a new approach to their infrastructure – namely, lots of these built-in display cases featuring beauty shots of the food in a [...]

Baking Book

chugradphoto — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:34:28 +0000

I worked on a fantastic project with the wonderful folks at Ten Speed Press. This was a book about Allergy-Free Baking. The author was able to create recipes that avoid the use of ingredients that cause most of the common allergies, including many allergies often overlooked, or not included in other books. We made cookies, [...]

Abuelita

chugradphoto — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:16:58 +0000

When I had the good fortune to marry my wife, I also, of course, gained many new relatives. Among them was her grandmother. She was born and raised in the Andes in Peru, speaking the native language Quechua as her first language. She had 13 children, only 7 of whom lived to become adults. She [...]