Here’s a bit of randomness. I was having dinner with my high school friends, Joanna and Vanessa last Sunday at Ciudad, a tapas restaurant in downtown Los Angeles. And who should walk in but Matt Armendariz, a food photographer and stylist I interviewed a while back. We had never met when I interviewed him (it was all done through email), but I recognized him and all his friends from his Flickr images when he came into the restaurant. Apparently, he’d been recognized the night before as well. Sites like Flickr have really made a community out of the internet. I admired someone’s work, sought him out, interviewed him, surveyed his work, and then met him by chance. He was so nice and gave me a big hug when I introduced myself. I love the internet.

Here’s one of Matt’s new images. It’s the pop of blue against the beautiful round oranges that really makes this photograph sing for me. Kudos to the chef.