Evening Sun

I was in the town of Napa for a commercial shoot, and was having one of those magical afternoons where the world was seemingly handing me little photographic gifts as I wandered around an old section of downtown Napa on foot—I was in a flow state. It was time to get home but I needed to use the restroom, so I stopped at this vintage burger and pie spot. I wanted to buy something so they wouldn’t mind me asking to use their restroom before a long drive home in rush hour traffic, so I ordered a piece of pie. Because the space looked like a set from the 50s in an Eggleston photograph, I ordered what I thought would photograph the best, which was this very tall lemon merengue pie. I shot it a couple places in the otherwise empty room, used the restroom, took a bite of the pie and left to the likely total confusion of the two ladies working there.