"foodphotography" news and stories

I have just posted this over on our Digital Photographer blog but I thought it worth repeating here - The Observer, in conjunction with Seeds of Change, is hosting a food photography competition with prizes up to £10,000.

FOr all you budding foodporn merchants: you need to impress! They have set up three categories: Food and People, Food and Thought, and Food, Glorious Food. So plenty of opportunities for demonstrating your creativity. Entrants can submit up to 5 photos per category, and short listed exhibitors will receive a subscription to Practical Photographer magazine. UK only I believe.

Entries are due by June 30th, and can be submitted on-line.

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Aussie based Tomatom has just posted the results from the hotly contested Does My Blog Look Good In This photo competition. Ignoring the fact that two winning entries came from the same person (the rules state just one entry per person/blog per month) the standard of entries was really great for this round. Ed has posted a spreadsheet of the results with comments from the two judges - Terry Durack (restaurant reviewer for The Independent on Sunday in London and European editor of Gourmet Traveller) and Jill Dupleix (The Times cook in London).

The winning photo really is excellent, I hope you agree. It was entered by Lucullian Delights. The next round, now accepting entries, is being hosted by Nika's Culinaria.

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Is this the worse piece of food photography ever? So says Pim and Larffic on Still Life With... agrees.

So much so that Larffic has laid down the challenge for all budding food photographers to recreate the dish. She gives full details of the recipe - it is a combination of tuna, salad, cucumber, croutons and a sauce - and you have until the end of the month to post your rendition on the Still Life With... flickr group.

It seems to me that the croutons are more like toast. Are not croutons small little cubes of crispy bread? Or is the photograph just so bad...

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My local town, Henley-on-Thames, has just hosted a food festival. Two days of, well, eating and drinking. These two sisters had great fun at a chocolate fountain; sadly through the palm trees this was the best shot I could get but certainly captures a moment.

[Photo Andrew Barrow]

My entry for the St. Georges Day English pudding event I mentioned earlier. Can you guess what it is? No not going to tell until tomorrow. No not a word except that it tastes delicious, has lashings of cream topping and contains...

[Photo Andrew Barrow]