As the year has come to an end, I've been rushing around scrambling to study for exams and finish my final project. For my studio photography class, I decided to do a portrait series on different types of family farms in North Carolina. This is a project, I hope to continue and even get more of the Hispanic aspect of it, so this is just a taste of a future of shooting farmers.

Bob Nutter, a 5th generation farmer, owns Maple View Farms in Hillsborough, N.C. He moved his farm to N.C. from Maine in 1963 and started milking cows on August 1st of the same year. Maple View Farms is known for its ice cream, milk and other dairy products.

Roger Nutter, Bob's son and 6th generation farmer, works at the Maple View Bottling Co. He started working at the company in 1996.

Jimmy Outlaw of Outlaw farms is a 3rd generation farmer. His farm in Dudley, N.C. was started in 1907 by his grandparents. He did public work before coming to work on the family farm and hasn't left since.

Gray Outlaw, a 4th generation farmer at Outlaw Farms, works with his father and son. Outlaw Farms grows crops such as tobacco and soy beans. They also raise turkeys for Butterball at Goldsboro Milling Co. and hogs.

Marshall Outlaw, an 8-year-old 5th generation farmer, works on Outlaw farms with his dad, Gray, and his grandpa, Jimmy. He loves to ride the tractors and helps his dad in the turkey houses. His knowledge of tractors is absolutely phenomenal and he could tell you anything you ever wished to know about them.

Wayne is a farmer at Wiggins Bros. Farms in La Grange, N.C. He drives the tractors and the 18-wheelers to transfer goods around the farm.

Arnold Marin works out on Wiggins Bros. Farms with Wayne, and the next photograph of Chuck. Marin helps work with the tractors out on the farm, which grows corn, beans, wheat, tobacco and raises hogs and turkeys.

Chuck works with Wiggins Bros. Farms as well. He helps run the trucks and the tractors on the farm. The Wiggins Bros. Farm is a family run farm but on an industrial size.

Like I mentioned earlier, I hope to continue this portrait series on so if you know any family farmers or Hispanic farmers in N.C. let me know!

My last studio assignment was a photo illustration. I decided to do a food illustration based off delicious mediterranean foods such as olives, fresh bread, parmesan, red wine, and spicy salami and other deli meats. Let's just say I had a delicious and scrumptious dinner after my shoot. I hope to do a more conceptual illustration in the future maybe with faces and another food shoot with cupcakes, hopefully before the semester is done. But for now, please enjoy this virtual meal :).

This wine shot was fun to shoot! It did take a lot of preparation and making sure my focus was correct and lighting was overexposed just enough. A very tedious shot, but well worth it in my opinion.

This was a pleasure to look at while shooting. I really love the natural color palette of this shot and the pimentos in the olives give it just enough pop of color for me. The deep purple alphonso olives mixed with the manzanilla olives. Mmmm, I practically drooled over this until I was done.

This one lacks a focal point just a little bit in my opinion. It's more product placement than anything with the three-buck chuck cork in the front. However, it is still one of my favorites because of its delicious nature, but definitely not something I would turn in for class.

I just love the knife. It's epic and I had epic fun with it.

Now, go grab a snack and succumb to your cravings :).