The easiest and cheapest way to practice food photography is in your neighborhood Farmer's Market. There are always many interesting, good looking fruits and vegetables organized as a marching band (wondering what this means? read more about it here) which is always pleasing to the eyes and highly photogenic. Because of their store hours, you always get day light on your photos assuming that it is not a dark, cloudy day. Here are some of my older shots in the Farmer's Market of San Francisco, Seattle and New York.