Alison Miksch's Grill Book~

If you haven't already heard the sizzle, Alison Miksch has been added to the NKreps roster!

She also has a grilling book hot off the presses, and another on the way.

The first cookbook title is Mastering The Grill – The Owner's Manual For Outdoor Cooking published by Chronicle Books in San Francisco.

The book is targeted toward men knowing men like to play with fire and manage the grill. It's a man's domain. It's organized like an owner's manual to make it comfortable for guys to work with unlike more traditional cookbooks. The focus of the book is the science behind grilling. "We aim to explain how grilling works, how to make grills work better, and how to use simple flavoring and cooking techniques to cook delicious grilled foods."

"If you have ever sacrificed a rack of ribs to the incendiary powers of a backyard grill, or tried to convince yourself that 'black and crusty' is exactly how you like your chicken, then you know firsthand the ambiguous art of cooking over an open flame."

There are the usual suspects like:

Molasses-Brined Pork Chops with Roasted Corn Salsa

Porter House Au Poivre

and
Tuscan Roasted Chicken Stuffed With Fragrant Greens

But then there are the more unusual like:

Grilled Cranberry Chutney

Clam Bake on the Grill
and

Scotch Steaks In The Coals With Stilton Butter

Alison told us how the image of the coals that starts out this post were shot and lit at her indoor studio... and things did get a bit smoky and somewhat out of control at one point. She only warned us that the fire extinguisher definitely came in handy :)
Beautiful shot and totally worth it. I'm tempted to fire up the grill and play with a little fire myself right now.

Dennis Welsh splashes down in Maine

Dennis Welsh recently did a few shoots in his beautiful home-state of Maine.

Check out those awesome overalls Dennis is sporting!




Here's Dennis enjoying himself on the job, with the kayakers gliding off in the distance:


and Dennis (in front) taking a 'lil break from shooting all day to do a little rowing himself:

These two are neat because you get to see the angle at which he took the image and also the actual image. The colors in these are really stunning and and make me want to go on a kayak trip!

Bonini and the boulders

Over the Labor Day weekend Steve Bonini risked life and limb traversing boulder fields and soggy terrain in the North Cascades region of Washington State to reach Ingalls Lake.



Having shot there years ago for Nike/ ACG, Steve has mentioned this place to us before and wanted to do a return trip.



Steve almost spent the night in the forest because of a wrong turn, but luck was on his side when he stumbled upon the trail after an hour of saying " Where the *#@ am I ? " Time for someone to get a Trail / GPS !


Five vertical miles ( mostly up ) on a wet Northwest day and well worth carrying the extra weight in cameras and lenses!

Everyday Heros

Some neat images of everyday super heroes by Curtis Johnson:
Curtis has also just redone his whole website! Take a look:

CurtisJohnsonPhoto.com