Working toward an environmental portrait

…Once Tony had our pie in the oven, I knew we had some real time to spend where we…could actually get outside of the kitchen.…And where we weren't stuck just photographing the process of making a pie.…This is the kind of stuff I really get excited about.…I love doing portraits.…I love setting up portraits, I love thinking about the locations.…And I want to put people within a space.…This is one of those things that,…as a photographer, if you're working editorially or for a newspaper.…You're always going to be taking lots of portraits.…

That's what people need.…So learn to love doing this.…When I first saw this location, from the outside as I drove by.…One of the things that drew me to it, was there's a huge sign on the outside of…the space, that just says pie in bright, big yellow letters.…I loved it.…I knew that somehow I wanted to incorporate this into a photograph.…Not just as a flat image looking at the outside of the building.…Once I determined the location that I wanted to shoot Tony's portrait.…I needed to get down to some of the actual logistics to doing that.…