photo of the day: sweet thing

I am not by nature a good still-life photographer: most of the time I find inanimate objects boring. Details at weddings are different, though, because I use those details to tell the story. But give me just an object and ask me to make a portrait? Not my thing.
However, when that object is food, it all changes. My local Starbucks is the reigning champion in cupcake sales, and part of the reason for that is the fact that they put together their own marketing for cupcakes in the drivethrough, and I get to shoot it. Um, yummy! I really enjoy a chance to work on food photography.
For this shot I used a pale pink piece of fabric as my background, draping it over boxes to create a mini-cupcake studio. I think bounced flash off the white ceiling, and voila! Delicious cupcake yumminess.