About Us

Hello & Chaò, we’re Todd and Diane. Welcome to our world of storytelling, photography and food behind the kitchen, behind the scenes & behind the lens. We’re professional food & lifestyle photographers & filmmakers, travelers and gardeners. Fueled by our love of local culture, people & rich heritage, we document powerful stories from around the world.

We believe in celebrating kind people, good food, great conversation, green gardening and traveling. For us,our lives have always been about love, family, friends and sharing. Connecting with people through food, sharing stories and supporting one another to live our dreams is what inspires us to publish this blog. 

We cook, consume and create from childhood comforts. Todd was born and raised on a cattle ranch in Oregon and Diane was born in Viet-Nam. Although our backgrounds are vastly different, we know that what we have in common far outweigh our differences.  After 16 years together, full of failures and successes, we continue to evolve at the stove and in our personal lives.

This site is our outlet to share our  love of food, travel , adventure and sharing stories. Welcome. 

Our Photography & Work:

Visit our portfolio of diverse photography, film, advertising promo work and cookbook photography :www.TdPhotographers.com

By day we stay busy in our photo/multimedia studio and freelance on assignment. Some of our advertising and commercial clients include The Oprah Winfrey Network, Williams Sonoma, Whole Foods, Thermador Appliances and Dole Foods. Complete client list here.

Our editorial work has appeared in Los Angeles Times, Food & Wine Magazine, Sunset Magazine,  LA Weekly  and Ngoui Viet Daily News. By night we share it all with you  here, on our food, garden, travel and photography blog.  Last but not least, our lives are complete because of our two crazy, but loving dogs, Dante and Sierra.

Workshops and Speaking Events:

It’s always an honor to share our experience & story with our community at various conferences and industry events.

  • Blissdom 2012, Nashville: Storytelling and Embracing Imperfection: Empower Your Visual Voice with Photography and Video
  • BlogHer Annual 2012, NYC
  • BlogHer Food 2012, Seattle: Keynote 
  • Food Blog Forum, Orlando 2012: Sharing your unique photographic story, voice & food styling, photo editing
  • Creative Connection 2011, MN : Finding your voice & Story telling through multimedia, Food Photography and Food Styling
  • Evolution of Women in Multimedia 2011, Utah: Portrait Photography, Food Photography/Styling
  • Boston University 2011 : International Food Photography & Styling Conference: Video & Film Workshop
  • IACP 2011 : Let there be light! Lighting & Photography
  • USC Creative Careers:  University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA : Online publishing, blogging and integrating social media to achieving your online career
  • USC Creative Careers 2010: Achieving Success & Values in your career
  • Techmunch, Los Angeles 2011 : Video and Storytelling
  • Cancun Mexico, 2011: Food Blogger Camp : Hands on workshops for food photography, lifestyle and photojournalism.
  • London, 2011 : Food Blogger Connect: Finding Your Niche
  • Food Blog Forum, Nashville 2011 : Storytelling, Food Photography & Food Styling
  • USC Creative Careers 2011:  University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA : Online publishing, blogging and integrating social media to achieving your online career
  • USC Creative Careers 2010: Achieving Success & Values in your career
  • Portrait & Lifestyle Photography, Los Angeles, CA - Capturing light, emotion & people , private workshops in our Los Angeles and Orange County studios.
  • Blog World and New Media Expo, Las Vegas 2010- Food Photography
  • BlogHer Food Conference 2009, San Francisco, CA - Principles of Photography
  • BlogHer Food Conference 2010, San Francisco, CA – Food Photography for Food Bloggers
  • Food Blogger Camp 2010, Ixtapa Mexico : Multimedia Presentation- integrating video, podcasts and other forms of new multimedia to building your best blog
  • Food Blog Forum, Los Angeles 2010- Food Photography, Workflow and Equipment
  • Food Blog Forum, Atlanta, Georgia 2010- Food Styling, Food Photography
  • Food & Lifestyle Photography , Los Angeles, CA - photographing food content indoors, outdoors, in your home and on location in restaurants. Private workshops on location at various Los Angeles locations.
  • The Art of Food and Light Workshop, Boulder, CO 2010- Natural and artificial light workflow, food styling and hands-on workshop

Blog Press, Interviews & other recipe mentions:

We love hearing from all of you! 

But with the flood of emails that we get on a daily basis, we are unable to answer each and every inquiry.  That’s great to send us a quick line and “hello!” but if you’re expecting an answer, please know we try to best to respond and it won’t be right away.

  • If it’s a recipe, technique or ingredient related question, please ask it on the comment section of the post so that everyone can benefit from the information. We like to share all recipe related questions to all our readers.

    Email: Contact us at  ”td (@) whiteonricecouple (dot) com”

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