Oh Salinas

 Oh, Salinas...

It’s given us Steinbeck, salad, a Rodeo pronounced wrong, and—well—Patrick Tregenza. A second-generation Monterey County native, Patrick ventured west to the Monterey Peninsula, only to find it was mostly the same, but smelled different. He stayed anyway.

Rooted in the “Salad Bowl of the World,” Patrick possesses the rare ability to identify nearly any vegetable field while speeding past at 60 miles per hour. He realized early on that jazz drumming maybe wasn’t the most stable way to make a living , so he shifted his focus to commercial food photography—a career choice that made perfect sense given his agricultural upbringing.

Today, Patrick specializes in capturing the foods we were all told to eat as kids. His bread-and-butter jobs are sometimes quite literally bread and butter (or meat and potatoes), but most often, they feature the vibrant produce that keeps Salinas the lettuce capital of the universe. Just as Steinbeck immortalized the region’s stories, Patrick strives to showcase its bounty—enticing us all to eat a little healthier along the way.

contact:

patrick@ptfoto.com

831.594.5959

248 pearl st.

monterey ca 93940