Studio Journal of Amy Deputy Photography » portraits

Kendall ~ a portrait

amy — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:25:49 +0000

Every so often I meet someone who I feel I’ve always known. We introduce ourselves and then begin where we finished. Thishappened when I met Kendall Brown of Eclatante Design at a beach wedding last summer. And so I did what I do. I went to her mother’s home to photograph love.

The St. Vincent’s Center ~ NACE volunteers making a difference

amy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:34:17 +0000

Neon cotton candy coated little lips. Hundreds of smiles and the latest dance moves decorated the gym. For 10 years members of the Baltimore National Association of Catering Executives (NACE) have brought ketchup and snowballs, bubbles and brownies to the St. Vincent’s Center in Timonium, MD. This year was no different as 45 NACE volunteers hosted 70 children and 30 staff for the summer picnic. St. Vincent’s Center offers residential treatment services for neglected and abused children as well as local and national child abuse prevention services.

Faces were transformed with paint. Fingernails were buffed and polished. “It is one afternoon where they can just be kids having fun in the summertime, no pressure, no lessons. It is amazing to watch them all dancing as if they did not have a care in the world,” said Dulany Noble, event organizer and Baltimore NACE Community Service Chair.

And the volunteers…they danced too. For information about service opportunities at St. Vincent’s Center contact Ellen Torres at 410-252-4000 x1629.

Volunteers from left to right: Team Snowball, employees of Gala Cloths, Bow Tie Bob, Alicia Karoll, president of Baltimore NACE and rental coordinator at AVAM, Daniel and Buster Raffell of A La Carte Maryland, Arthur Remanjon of Arthur Remanjon Photographers with Jerry Edwards of Chef’s Expresions and Team Kitchen, Ellene Pomerantz of Write Style, Leo Herbert of DePalo & Sons, Alicia Karoll of AVAM, Michelle Hall of American Furniture Rental, a representative of Carroll Manor, Julie Brown-Edwards of Tremont Suite Hotels, Loren Lippman of Party Rental Ltd. and Casey Riley of Marriott Waterfront Hotel.

Of Lavender Tutus and Sour Cherries ~ a summer solstice

amy — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:40:23 +0000

On the longest day of the year, there’s a party…music, children, hula hoops, neighbors, friends and cobbler. Each cobbler is a three hour process. She makes two, one with sour cherries picked from the tree in her front yard, the other with rhubarb from the farmer’s market. I am entranced by the child in the lavender tutu who spins in the wind dancing to the songs of friends.

Victoria’s Sour Cherry Cobbler Recipe

8 T melted butter
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1 T vanilla
2.5 cups white flour
1.5 cups sugar
1 T baking powder
.5 t salt

4 cups sour cherries
2 T flour
.5 cup sugar

Mix the first 4 ingredients together. Sift together the dry ingredients. Mix the wet and dry together to make the topping batter. Add flour and sugar to the cherry mixture.
Pour cherry concoction into a greased 9×12 pan. Spoon topping batter over the cherries. Bake at 375 degrees for 45 minutes. Note: a cup of rhubarb may be substituted for a cup of cherries.

adapted from In a Cajun Kitchen by Terri Pischoff Wuerthner