Last week I took a class from the renowned food photographer Andrew Scrivani. If you’re in to food photography and have an opportunity to take a class from him, I cannot recommend it enough. Do it. The goal of this class was to get yourself to break out of creative ruts. For my part, I felt that I needed a push to break through to the next level of my work . One of his comments was to add a human element to my work. Build an environment and make sure there’s a human in it. The above was the the photograph I created. The challenge, at first was daunting as I really didn’t do much of that in my beverage photography before. Initially there were no ideas. I let it sit for a day or so and let my mind wander. Since coming up with this idea, there have been three or four more ideas since. Challenging yourself can be intimidating. Not challenging yourself means no growth. Challenge yourself.