This was a tough assignment for me only because it was hard to determine what isn't usually found in a kitchen--or at least MY kitchen. My kitchen is a cooking and eating place as are most, but it is also a meeting room, office, and project room. It has three double-hung windows on the western wall, and a big eight-foot sliding glass door on the northern wall, so I use it often for photography. As I thought about what was NOT usually found in a kitchen, my eyes came to rest on the mirrored door of a medicine cabinet that I stash in one corner. I guess that isn't usually found in a kitchen, but it's been in mine for more than a year. I use it to reflect light and as a base for certain photos. I guess the same is true for the work light, which is perched on an old Cointreau bottle.
If you can't stand the heat, the old saying goes, get out of the kitchen. With Iron Photographer we put out the heat AND kept you in the kitchen.
Three simple elements: 1) shot in the kitchen, 2) with something not ordinarily found in the kitchen, 3) using natural light. So simple...and yet the results were so spectacular.