Didn’t I Just Feed You?
Cake for Breakfast, Portraits by Afternoon: Foodie Podcast
Some sessions you walk into knowing exactly what you need to capture. Others, you just show up, read the room, and let the subjects do what they do naturally — which, in the case of Meghan and Stacie of the Didn't I Just Feed You podcast, means laugh, eat cake, talk over each other enthusiastically, and generally radiate the exact warmth that has made their show one of the top food podcasts in the country.
Didn't I Just Feed You was started by Meghan and Stacie, two long-time food pros, fast friends, and working parents didntijustfeedyou who built a whole community around one very relatable premise: feeding your family shouldn't be this hard, and you're definitely not alone in finding it so. Their non-judgmental, funny, deeply practical approach has earned them a loyal following of parents who tune in for actual cooking solutions — and stay for the friendship.
The brief for this shoot was brand photography for the podcast — a mix of individual portraits and duo shots, in-kitchen lifestyle images, and some outdoor street-level frames that captured their personalities beyond the recording studio. We used a beautifully designed kitchen as our primary location, and it gave us everything we needed: great light, great lines, and room to move.
The individual portraits show each of them in their element — Stacie perched on the kitchen counter laughing with a glass in hand, Meghan settled at the island with her laptop and a LaCroix, the kind of "this is actually my life" energy that makes brand photography feel real rather than performed. For the duo shots, we let them just be themselves, which quickly escalated into a full-on sprinkle cake situation. Some of those frames — forks raised, hair flying, completely cracking up — are genuinely some of the most joyful commercial portraits I've made.
We also took them outside to do some walking shots along the neighborhood street, grocery bag in hand, mid-conversation. That kind of loose, candid lifestyle content is exactly what a food podcast brand needs — it tells the audience who these people are before a single word is spoken.
One more detail about this project: one of Stacie's portraits from the session became her author photo for her cookbook, Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner, a collection of 50 easy, vibrant, modern chicken dinner recipes from a writer praised for her non-judgmental approach and laid-back cooking style. Seeing an image travel from a brand shoot to a published book cover is one of the quiet rewards of this work.
If you're a podcaster, food creator, or media personality looking for brand photography that actually captures who you are, let's connect.
Leah Flores is a Portland-based commercial photographer with nearly 20 years of experience working with brands including Nike, National Geographic, and VICE News. She specializes in lifestyle, food, and personality brand photography across the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
