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Commercial food photographer & stylist specializing in food brand, editorial & restaurant photography

12/15/2025

I finally shared a quiet update on the last few months—treatment, exhaustion, support, surrender, and some hopeful news: post treatment imaging looks promising!

Surgery is tomorrow, and I wrote more about where things stand and how I’m feeling as I head into it.

The full update is on Substack which is linked in my bio.

09/16/2025

Such a treat to create some energetically, elevated work for the best deal in town- ’s wine club. Make sure to scroll to the end for my favorite accident.

07/20/2025

Hi friends! I have some personal news I’m finally ready to share. But it’s long so I created a little Substack post instead of writing it all here. I’d appreciate it if you took a minute to read it. It’s heavy and big, fair warning. But I love that you are here. And willing to see me. To join me in this.

I shared the link in my bio and in my stories. Or if you need help I can send it to you.

Thank you a million times over.

All my love,
Stacy

05/09/2025

New work for ! Loved creating this gorgeous herby mushroom and goat cheese salad with food stylist .

To create something so warm and inviting I set the scene in summery analogous reds and oranges. This also makes the complimentary blue-greens in the lettuces and herbs pop- taking center stage.

Let’s live in this world and sit for hours, sipping wine, visiting with friends, and basking in the sun on a sunny spring evening.

11/13/2023

Some more of my favorite shots from my shoot with and .

Here’s what’s in the photos:
1. Beverage manager Drew Carter smoking the “Squirming Coil”
2. Whipped feta 🤤
3. Highly jacked potato gratin
4. The cutest chocolate pot de crème
5. Views from the beautiful restaurant facade
6. Espresso martini (peep the back light 👀)
7. From left to right: Culinary Director Jon Haener, Executive Chef Casey Oster, and General Manager Ashly Heil
8. The famous Pink Lotus (my personal fave)
9. Dat steak 🔥
10. A packed terrace perfect for year round dining.

Read the whole story in the Nov/Dec issue of Grand Rapids Magazine.

11/01/2023

October in pictures.

While I did get some wonderful client work in, October was rough. Due to our family getting hit with covid we had to cancel a vacation, a surgery, and basically 3 weeks of work.

But…

Sitting with the sickness, stagnation, and sadness of the world right now, I did learn something.

The importance of REST.

So many of us are so hungry for the next tip on how to create better work, earn more money, find better clients, book the next gig, etc…if we don’t allow ourselves regular moments of rest, we’ll still end up depleted.

Being forced into rest, I realized how hard I was pushing myself. I gave myself zero space to pause, to play, and to participate in society.

November is a new opportunity to still dream and work hard…but with ease.

How do you incorporate rest into your routine?

Here are things I’m trying:
- Taking 30 minute breaks after 90 minutes of focus, uninterrupted work. Sometimes I’ll read a novel. Sometimes I’ll do some light yoga.
- A firm boundary on work hours. I have really tried this in the past but when things get busy I still snuck work in at night. If my work is interfering with family time, it’s time to reevaluate some things.
- Making more time for connection with family, friends, and my partner.
- Firm boundaries around when I use social media
- Hitting the hay before 10 pm

Ok, November. Let’s take it easy.

08/29/2023

We’ve got it all wrong.

The hardest part about being a creative isn’t the rejection from potential clients, the ghosted emails, and all the “no’s” that come as part of the process of putting yourself out there.

It’s the way we talk to ourselves when these challenges arise.

Things like…

“See, you aren’t good enough. Why even try?”

“Who do I think I am going after a client like X?”

“I can never earn a good living doing this.”

Or the feeling of not being a “real” artist that keeps us from putting our work out there in the first place.

The “rejection” hurts because of how you interpret the rejection.

With fear.

And so you play small, try to make your work more like someone else’s, and never go out on a limb. Because if a challenges reveals a fear that you’re not enough- it hurts.

Real bad.

But what if you could change your mind?

If you could view a “no” as a “not yet”?

A ghosted email as a message in a bottle taking its time to merrily get to you as it bobs in the sea- rather than a harsh rejection?

Could a “we’ll consider you for future projects” be exactly that -rather than a not in your dreams?

What if you could transmute the feeling of “This sucks!” when you’re challenged into “This is what progress looks like!”?

How would that feel? Would you put yourself out there more? Would you hum a little ditty while you put together a proposal, carefree as a wildflower?

Would you create more for the joy of creating? Just cuz? Maybe the light was right or you ate a delicious taco.

What if you were enough, without validation from anyone or anything?

Would you do something bold? Break a rule? Would you get too big for your britches, dancing all the way there?

If there was the chance that you could feel this way, would it be worth it to you to muster up the love it took to be gentler with yourself? To be kind to the celestial child of the universe that you are?

The truth is, we all get to decide.

It’s up to you to view challenges through either eyes of either fear or love.

But I hope you choose love —I’ll try to too.

See you there.

08/22/2023

When should you hire a food stylist for a restaurant shoot?

Working with a food stylist is the bee’s knees when it comes to food photography, because gorgeous looking food is the foundation of a gorgeous shot.

But when working with restaurants not every shoot requires a food stylist.

How do we know when to suggest a food stylist to our restaurant clients?

Here are a few indicators that hiring a food stylist might be a good fit for your restaurant shoot:

🍔 The restaurant is making a big investment. If your client is investing in a large marketing campaign that will serve them for years, investing in a stylist is a great choice to make sure their assets are as beautiful as possible.

🥗 It’s a more casual restaurant. Fine dining restaurants have their plating down to an art and the chefs are experts in making the food look show stopping. With more casual restaurants it can actually be more tricky to make food shine.

🥟 The chef team at the restaurant doesn’t feel confident in food styling. They may be able to knock your socks off with the flavor of that sandwich but don’t necessarily know how to make that sandwich camera ready.

🍰 The time and budget is available. Working with a food stylist can slow things down as attention is given to every detail. Which can raise the cost of the shoot on top of the food stylist’s fee. If it’s clear the budget or scope of time to produce a very dialed in shoot is there, then suggesting a food stylist is the way to go.

This recent work with needed a food stylist to put finishing touches on the food and dial it in to be as drool worthy as possible. knocked it out of the park along with assisting and editing.

Save this for the next time you get an inquiry for a restaurant client that might need a food stylist.

08/14/2023

Should food photographers know how to shoot interiors? Heck yes!

I was surprised to learn that the more photography gigs I got the more and more requests I received to shoot restaurant interiors and exteriors.

So place these top tips in your back pocket for when you start getting interior photography requests.

✨4 ESSENTIAL TIPS FOR SHOOTING INTERIORS✨

✅ Use HIGH aperture/f-stop. And in order to expose properly a tripod is a MUST!

✅ Turn off the lights if possible

✅ Expose for the highlights in the room, not the windows

✅ Use your food photography composition techniques like negative space, the rule of thirds, and leading lines to frame your shot

Save these tips for later and tag your food photography bestie in the comments

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44 Cesar E. Chavez Ave SW
Grand Rapids, MI
49503-4083

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Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

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http://www.stacyfeyersalo.com/

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