For those of you who don’t know me well, I should let you know that I am a photographer. One of the things I love to do is photograph food. I especially love candy. Its beautiful colors and interesting shapes make it a great subject and a lot of fun to work with. It has its challenges, to be sure, but is a very exciting thing to work with. The photo at right is an example of what I do. Sure, humans are hard to pose but at least they take direction. Candy doesn’t do anything you tell it to!
This is a bunch of candy I got together as a donation to the Shriners Hospital in Philadelphia. The Shriners spend more than $2 million per day providing free hospital care for children and specialize in treatment for burns, cleft lips and palates, spinal cord injuries and orthopedic issues.
When I contacted the Kena Shrine, they were more than happy to help me make this donation and even sent someone to my office who would deliver the candy to the hospital, three hours away. Knowing that the kids there, who have such suffering and pain, might find a moment of happiness as a result of NCA’s donation makes this probably the best candy photo I have ever taken.
