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Winston Zhou Photography baltimore based food and still-life photographer.

there's something so therapeutic about about working with flowers in the studio. alone in a dark room, just you, some sh...
19/06/2025

there's something so therapeutic about about working with flowers in the studio. alone in a dark room, just you, some shears, a bunch of strobes, broken AC, half drunk iced coffee, two water bottles, too many cables, leaves on the floor, dreams evaporating faster by the minute, so many clamps and clips, an opened but untouched bag of cheetos, the remnants of a slice of pizza, hairline receding, bag of coffee beans, maybe even a little bit of blood? you'll get that with some good lysol and elbow grease, don't worry about it. there's nothin better!

it's even better when the flowers from your friend at !!
(mark your calendars for Saturday, AUGUST 23 for their glorious return after a short summer break for some delicious fall flowers! i for one, am extremely excited for dahlia season again.)

shot on:
A7iii, 90mm Macro f/2.8 GM v1
3 light setup:
background:
flowers:
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some new work with Jaspers, shot with . there's some really fun stuff i'm fermenting over here. can't wait to share ! a...
30/05/2025

some new work with Jaspers, shot with .

there's some really fun stuff i'm fermenting over here. can't wait to share ! also i've been cooking on an ANCIENT 2020 version of Capture One and literally upgraded last night to the most recent version. mama. it's nice. it was already nice, but this is NICE. ALSO i've been making a lot of smoothies for myself ever since I purchased an immersion blender. my skin isn't clear but it does feel cute.

A7iii, 24-70 f/2.8 GM v1
3 Light setup:
backdrop:
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several moons ago, the team hit me up to see if they could get some new team portraits !! these were inspired by some p...
22/05/2025

several moons ago, the team hit me up to see if they could get some new team portraits !! these were inspired by some portraits i took at , which were inspired by this portrait of Taika Waititi taken by !!!!

the assignment was fun, colorful, funky images that showed they weren't like the other companies...they were a cool ̶m̶o̶m̶ company. but also that they knew their s**t. professionalism and stuff, yknow? i'm super super super chuffed with these photos! you take a nice 4 light setup and add a few gels et voila! you get some beautiful poppin portraits!

thanks for workin with me !! always thankful to make cool s**t with cool people.

A7iii, 24-70 f/2.8 GM v1
4 light setup:
backdrop: Bone by
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file setup/retouch prep:

big large huge enormous viscous massive funky juicy fermented thank you to the folks at for including me this year as a...
22/04/2025

big large huge enormous viscous massive funky juicy fermented thank you to the folks at for including me this year as a chosen winner! !! so so incredibly grateful to have been selected the very first year i've mustered up the courage to participate.

especially grateful to for the food wizardry and support to make this fantastical dinner happen 🦖

A7iii, 90mm f/2.8 Macro GM v1
4 light setup:
backdrop: Bone by
photo:
styling:

some work for / / / okay so the other day i had to do a fridge and pantry restock and not only was it painful for my ...
11/04/2025

some work for / / /

okay so the other day i had to do a fridge and pantry restock and not only was it painful for my wallet, it was also such an insane experience from my normal grocery shopping experience. like normally i'll get my vegetables, and stupid little snacks on sale, and then head to the indian grocer to get exactly SIX (6) samosas. but this trip was different and worse for a few key reasons:
1. tarriffs had just been announced !! girl HELP
2. the 40lb bag of rice that i've been eating from was begging for a restock
3. there was nary a twig, nor a leaf of kimchi left in my fridge.
4. also there wasn't any beer in my fridge! malnourishment was IMMINENT
5. i was soooo sleepy

so like, after i got my normal vegetables and yogurt and misc protein, and excessive amounts of beer, i had to get kimchi and rice. while waiting in the HMart line i watched this dad drop a box of fresh fish just in the line as he's scrambling to get everything loaded up into the express checkout line while his daughter walks back 30 seconds later with a lollipop discover a tragedy on the same scale as january 6th. that fish was probably their dinner. who knows. that was crazy.
and then when i had to get my rice (my favorite brand of rice is kokuho premium iykyk) the store was sooo swamped because it was a weekend afternoon. but i ended up having to carry the 40lb bag out on my shoulder while carrying a bag of soy milk and i've never felt more masculine in my life. probably?

A7iii, 90mm macro f/2.8 GM
3 light setup:
backdrop: Bone by
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client:
chili crisp: / /

some work with . i wish with all my heart and butt that i could naturally be someone who settles into a nice morning ro...
26/02/2025

some work with .
i wish with all my heart and butt that i could naturally be someone who settles into a nice morning routine with a calm cup of tea and a relaxing book or whatever but i feel like who i am as a person is unfortunately diametrically opposed to this fantasy. there are no issues with waking up at 5am for set call time but those are also the days where i'm being woken up like it's WWII and immediately getting the sewage scraped off my face so that i'm a presentable human being. we Are doing things very efficiently but there is no peace in the house!! No sleep, bus, club, another club, another club, plane, next place, no sleep, another club. we gotta go!!!!

that being SAID: i have no issues hitching along someone elses' routine. that's cute, easy breezy beautiful. we love her.
there's no actual story to this. i'm just blabbin.

A7iii, 24-70 f/2.8 GM v1
2 light setup:
backdrop: Bone by
photo/styling:
tea:

Hej hello! (Dios MIO I spent so much time writing the actual post I forgot to write a caption for posting.) At long last...
30/01/2025

Hej hello! (Dios MIO I spent so much time writing the actual post I forgot to write a caption for posting.) At long last, part one of my 2024 year-in-review is done! We've been doing this for years, so y'all know the drill.

What we've ALSO been doing for years is eating spicy food and suffering the wrath of the lord in the bathroom later on. Recently I was grocery shopping and I came across a display that I can only describe as hedonistic, and temptation from the devil himself. It was a shelf FILLED to the brim with Buldak spicy ramen. Like, not even the normal 1x spice. This was probably 100-150 packets of 2x Spice Buldak noodles for $0.99 a piece. I've had this once before, and it was probably worse pain than my tango with a car many years ago. And as if it wasn't insulting enough to my digestive tract, there was another small case off to the side containing the carbonara flavor. Also for $0.99. I shunned the idea, and went home with my groceries and 6 fresh samosas from the Indian grocer next door. We were proud of our character growth. We saw something that we knew would cause us pain, and we resisted the temptation. The next week, however, was an entirely different story. I succumbed to their siren song and ended up purchasing not one, but TWO of these bad boys, along with some of their carbonara cousins. I did end up trying those noods. Not as good as I remembered from college. The texture is kinda whack, and the spice still hurts. 4/10 might try again.

Anyways the bloggalogga post is on my website. The Legend of Zelda Link is in Biology class, etc.

Thanks for another year.

chili crisping the bouba/kiki binary with also why is it so hard to open the individual pepto bismol packets like if i'...
20/12/2024

chili crisping the bouba/kiki binary with

also why is it so hard to open the individual pepto bismol packets like if i'm already in a category 5 tummyache i dont have the wherewithal to get scissors too?? america explain

shot on:
A7iii, 90mm Macro f/2.8 GM
2 light setup:
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study on blinked and suddenly realized that we're almost through November. it's around this time when i really like to g...
26/11/2024

study on

blinked and suddenly realized that we're almost through November. it's around this time when i really like to get into the wibbly wobblies of how i want to approach my personal annual photo review. there are no real rules, and no real requirements beyond the photos being captured in this current year (be it, literally, or emotionally). (emotionally, meaning that a set of photos taken on january 2rd before it's sunk in that we're in the next year might get included in the previous years review. time isn't real)
on one hand, it always becomes such a large undertaking because of these additional expectations i set for myself to up the ante every year and i hate how it feels like a manufactured production as opposed to an organic reflection. on the other hand, it does give me an excuse to try something new and feel like im putting out something polished. there's value in both, but ultimately i'm constantly pushing myself to stop cutting off a project before it even starts out of fear for not being able to execute it perfectly etc etc. and balancing that with the desire to take my time and release something i can be really proud of. yknow?

in the first few years it was just a photo dump of the best photos from the year. since then it's turned into a photo essay with accompanying commentary of sorts which is fine and good too. last year i tried to do a two part series where i did separate posts for personal vs professional work. i'm not sure exactly what the missing jenny say choir is, but it feels like there's surely something more I can do with the format. but i'm just not sure on what direction to go in right now. thoughts? comments? concerns? complaints? interest in doing your own review? beer recommendations? invitations to holiday parties? holler at me.

also i'm gonna restart my mailing list! it won't be a weekly newsletter, most likely monthly at best. send me a carrier pigeon if you want me to give it a little kiss and if you want in on the action.

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1 light setup: the sun
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happy happy pub day with !!! something something......don't talk to papa until he's had his happy time juice. the juic...
21/11/2024

happy happy pub day with !!!

something something......don't talk to papa until he's had his happy time juice. the juice in question: a wonderful beer cocktail at . Thanks for the assignment, !

shot on:
A7iii, 24-70 f/2.8 GM v1
2 light setup:
food styling:
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happy halloween this year my costume is "food poisoning victim" LMFAO i woke up at like 5am to the feeling of my stomach...
31/10/2024

happy halloween this year my costume is "food poisoning victim" LMFAO i woke up at like 5am to the feeling of my stomach churning with the force of an Amish mom making butter for dinner Tonight. but we're still alive, so there's that.

Some new work I got to create with that was featured on / .

Exploring our beloved chili crisp on opposing scales with simple still life studies. i wanted something simple, but quirky to show off the custom design work by .
and on a smaller scale, the ingredient that brings all chili crisps together: the oil. what kind of oil is being used? how much oil is there compared to the solid crunchies?

also a bonus sparkles frame because i am a stage 4 terminal sparkle fan

in more EXCITING news: a few weeks ago I celebrated my birthday and while I forwent the route of a party with friends, the gift i recieved was arguably better than any party that could've been thrown. the original plan was to get some pho and go to a thrift store, find a tacky shirt, and call it a day. INSTEAD, i ended up going home with a frickin 10 CUP ZOJIRUSHI FUZZY LOGIC RICE COOKER. that girl is like $300 and i bought it for $10!!!!!! alexa play Bad Bitch Academy by Paris Hilton.
ya girl loves a deal, and this was a STEAL of a lifetime!!!! haven't had the chance to make any rice cooker meals in it yet but like if anyone has any recommendations i am multiple ear holes open for them.

shot on: sonyalpha
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My good friends at recently took 2nd place as 's "Best Independent Coffee Shop" in the entire US of A! The whole count...
23/10/2024

My good friends at recently took 2nd place as 's "Best Independent Coffee Shop" in the entire US of A! The whole country! That's so incredible ! I'm not sure how many coffee shops there are in the country but there are at least 3, for sure. My first time here was just a short 2 years ago on a crazy first date, and quickly became an absolute cornerstone of my schedule in the logistical, digestive, AND emotional sense.
Like i don't know about y'all but I've never seen another shop with a giant taxidermied Moose named Bruce who I would certainly love to take out on a date if he's ever available on a Thursday night and would be interested in going to get Chinese takeout and squat on a curb in the parking lot as we eat our walnut shrimp, fried eggplant, crab rangoon, spicy green beans, and one pork egg roll as we watch local pigeons strut down the street like they're walking in the Iris Van Herpen SS24 show. i've just never seen that anywhere else. idk about you tho. anyways my favorite order is the iced matcha latte with whatever kind of milk the staff feels good about, and a scone.

anyways I shot these images for them a while back. aren't they cute? go getcha some coffee and show some love. go birds or whatever

shot on: sonyalpha A7iii
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