• 09/01/2012

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.
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