Portland, OR Food Adventure

Posted: July 30, 2011 | Author: Kelly Wegel | Filed under: Food, Photos, Travel | 1 Comment »

Just got back from Portland, OR, the ultimate foodie town. And bike town. And berry town! It’s about the middle/near the end of berry season.

Shirley making a delicious blackberry, blueberry and raspberry pie from scratch.

The photos started off well at Tasty n Sons, a new restaurant by John Gorham. We went to Toro Bravo the night before, but I was so in awe of the food I forgot about my camera.

The food was quickly demolished.

This was some chicken-fried duck in the front. On the left, a pork chop and egg over spaetzle. In the back, fingerling potatoes and lardons with sour cream.

We made the trek out to Cheese Bar, which was well worth the long and confusing bus ride. Don’t trust #14 bus drivers.

A cheese plate, beer and wooly pig ham, a very fatty thin-sliced ham.

Summer Academy at the University of Georgia

Posted: June 14, 2011 | Author: Kelly Wegel | Filed under: Photos, UGA | Leave a comment »

I had a wonderful time teaching the weeklong digital photography summer day camp at UGA for a group of very talented students ages 12-16 last week! We learned about composition, sports photography, photojournalism (complete with a tour of the Athens Banner-Herald), portraits, light painting and photo blogging. Here are a few of my favorite shots from the week:

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Zombie Movie: A Plague So Pleasant

Posted: April 24, 2011 | Author: Kelly Wegel | Filed under: Athens, People, Photos | 1 Comment »

I love zombie movies. I want to be the kooky one with a few funny lines and the big gun that has to eventually waste her best friend or her mom or her trusty dog because they have been bitten. Then I get to have an emotional moment that I stoically choke back with a catch phrase like “hasta la vista, mama”. I can’t decide if I would rather die in a blaze of glory while exploding a building full of zombies while my fellow survivors escape, or if I want to live and help start a utopian society post-zombies.

But it’s not about me! It’s about an awesome indie movie-in-the-making in Athens called A Plague So Pleasant where zombies are all kept on a military-guarded compound and allowed to exist and not persecuted! But they still look like zombies -

Check out the Banner-Herald slideshow here.

Ten-year-old Jonathan Patterson poses in full zombie makeup during filming Saturday, April 23, 2011 for A Plague So Pleasant, an independent zombie film being made by Athenians in Athens.