Food and Wine Photography

{All photographs taken with the Olympus OMD EM-5 | Processed in Adobe Lightroom 4 & 5 | B & W images post in Nik Silver Efex Pro}

World Class Cheese Producers

Crowning a hillside on Point Reyes overlooking the Tomales Bay is the award winning Point Reyes Farmstead | Cheese Company. This was the start of our road trip up the California Coast to Oregon. Couldn’t think of a better way to start then to land at SFO, rent a Prius in the city and motor out to Point Reyes and embark on a food and wine photography adventure. Never having been there before I was concerned wether we’d make it on time. As luck would have it we arrived just in time for a VIP tour of the facilities with our gracious hosts and oweners, Bob pictured below and his daughter Jill. Click on the link to see the start of this travel photography journey.

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I was intrigued to taste their cheeses. California is known for producing some of the finest wines in the world, but cheeses? Let me shout it out from the hilltops of Point Reyes. Bob and his family makes amazing cows milk cheeses! They are on par with cheeses I’ve had in Paris on my many visits. World class and award winning: Mozzarella {only served and sold at the farm due to it fragile nature it can’t be shipped}, two types of Blue cheese Original Blue and Bay Blue and there delicious aged Toma {plus we got to sample some Aged Toma too!}.

Bob’s farm has nearly 1,000 head of cattle that are milked 365 days per year. They keep meticulous records on all their Jersey cows to measure health and productivity.

My visit to the Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company combine two of my passions: Food & Wine and editorial photography. As an added bonus, the wine gods smiled upon me. Across from me sat Donna who is in charge of the wine club at Sonoma Cutrer Winery. Donna arranged for a VIP tasting at their Windsor, CA winery for us the next day. I’ve been a fan of their wines for over 20 years. After our tasting we headed up the coast stopping along the way at Tomales Bay for Oysters and some beer.