Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
As much as we’d like to, there are times during the day when can’t actually eat something delicious. At those moments, then, we have to resort to the next best thing—looking at delicious food.
Photograzing is a place to share your best food photography, discover new food blogs, and find tasty inspiration. Whether it’s ideas for tonight’s dinner, some eye candy to help you procrastinate, or just a lively connection to the community of food-lovers on the web, we hope you’ll find this new food photography site a staple of your online diet.
How It Works
Photograzing is powered by you, the Serious Eats community. If you’re a food blogger, you can show off your best photography by submitting a picture and a brief description. If your submission is approved, it will appear with a link to your site. The best submissions will also appear on Serious Eats.
And even if you’re not submitting items yourself, you can participate by clicking on photos to visit the poster’s site or by leaving comments on the photo right on Photograzing. You can sign in with your existing Serious Eats account. (If you don’t have one, you can get one for free—it’s quick and easy to sign up!)
In all, we’ve heard that the food blog community loves having a place to gather, and since there’s been a clamor for a site like this, we wanted to offer you Photograzing. Best of all, Photograzing will benefit from the energy and enthusiasm that have been hallmarks of the Serious Eats community from day one. We also want to acknowledge and thank Tastespotting for the obvious inspiration. We encourage our community to check it out.
So, welcome to our new site—we can’t wait to start grazing along with you!
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31 Comments:
So, in other words, it’s a bit like www.tastespotting.com.
Leopold Porkstacker at 2:35PM on 07/02/08
I don't understand the whole "food porn" phenomena.
Jim Glover at 2:43PM on 07/02/08
@Leopold Porkstacker - but with a community aspect, which is what makes SE so compelling.
bitchincamero at 2:45PM on 07/02/08
cool, hope this becomes really integrated into Serious Eats. Tastespotting was a great place and a community I miss--
kthread at 2:51PM on 07/02/08
Nice!
Dear Serious Eats Team -- I tried to upload a pic/info and the page crashed on me, but then I tried again and everything seemed to work. So please forgive me if you get the same submission twice.
Also, I already cropped my image to 245 x 245. Would you like us to do that with our submissions, or do you guys prefer getting the raw full-size photograph?
FastFoodCritic at 3:00PM on 07/02/08
i hope these photos link back to recipes wherever possible. otherwise it's just gonna be torture! especially during my lunch hour. congrats!
j at 3:09PM on 07/02/08
@FastFoodCritic: By "crashed," what exactly do you mean? Did the page spin for a while and go blank? But it did go through -- your submission is right here.
From the Photograzing FAQ: For non-square photos, they're resized on the shortest dimension to 245 pixels, then center-cropped to 245 x 245 pixels. Square photos are only resized.
If you want complete control of the image composition, it's best to submit a square image.
Raphael at 3:13PM on 07/02/08
@Jim Glover - For myself, I want to see a beautiful picture of something so that it inspires me to make it at home.
Serious Eats - Thanks for a new addicting past time!
Carosone at 3:16PM on 07/02/08
@Raphael,
Yes sir, exactly. The first time after I hit the button, things seemed to be moving very-very slow..and then it just went to a blank page and everything stopped.
So I hit the back button on my browser, and found all my info was still there, except the image field was empty. I re-browsed the image on my computer, hit the button again, and Presto!
Everything went quick this time AND I got a "Thank You" confirmation message.
FastFoodCritic at 3:25PM on 07/02/08
LOVE IT!
But what if I don't have a food blog? Can I still submit photos?
LiveToEat at 3:32PM on 07/02/08
Of course, LiveToEat! I'm sorry if the wording seemed to exclude people without foodblogs.
The upload form requires a URL to link back to and won't process the image without one.
If you have a Flickr account (or other similar photo-sharing account) and the image appears there, you can link back to that image. If you don't have a Flickr account, you can set up a free one pretty quickly and easily.
And let me clear up something here: If you have a blog that's not primarily about food, you're still welcome to post a food photo from it to Photograzing—as long as the photo is linking back to whatever entry that food photo came from.
Example: You have a knitting blog, but on Fridays you blog about desserts and take beautiful photos of your baked goods. You would submit your dessert pic and link to your Friday dessert post.
That said, the URL you input should link back to the food item pictured in some way. To keep things interesting, the quality high, and to further the food conversation, we'd like to see permalinks back to the actual food item so that spammers don't come in and try to use Photograzing as a forum to drive traffic to generalized, top-level pages. Does that make sense?
Adam Kuban at 3:59PM on 07/02/08
Cool, but I keep getting 500 errors when I try to upload. Sigh. I'll try again later.
me3dia at 4:05PM on 07/02/08
@m3dia: is it possible that your image is larger than 1 MB? That can cause a 500 error. Try submitting an image with a smaller file size - it should totally work!
Raphael at 4:19PM on 07/02/08
You guys did a great job on the site, both design/layout and the user interface.
Simple, elegant.
FastFoodCritic at 4:45PM on 07/02/08
But isn't Tastespotting back up sort of. It's up with some format changes and no longer part of notcot.
wunami at 4:57PM on 07/02/08
Hooray! Way to go. This is a fantastic addition to the SE family.
Boscompb at 4:57PM on 07/02/08
Jim Glover said -- I don't understand the whole "food porn" phenomena.
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I think people sometimes enjoy looking at food as much as they do eating it. Even bad food is fun to look at, if presented right. I don't really understand it either. But I'm guilty of it too, so why fight it. I just go with it.
It's our most basic instinct, eating. Well, besides sex. And it's difficult for many to surf porn at the office, but nobody is going to think twice if they walk by your desk and see you glaring at 'chicken' breasts.
FastFoodCritic at 4:59PM on 07/02/08
@Raphael: Yep, that was most likely it. Thanks!
me3dia at 5:47PM on 07/02/08
I never participated in Tastespotting because they didn't permit links to bare photos. (The photos had to be part of a blog post.) I'm looking forward to participating here. Even though it allows me to participate, I mention it because it may have been a wise policy. You should keep an eye on flickr-centric posts and see if you consider them to be as worthy as full-fledged blog posts.
I'm curious whether the new Tastespotting still has that policy. I noticed that they're now linking directly to the source of the image from the RSS feed. I'm glad Photograzing also does that and I hope it stays that way. As I recall, the old Tastespotting and one or two of the pretenders to the tastespotting throne required you to click through their home pages to get to the original source of the image. I'd rather see ads in the rss feed than have to click twice.
stu_spivac at 10:54PM on 07/02/08
@stu_spivac As one of the pretenders (foodgawker), we eliminated a click for you. The images in our RSS feed now go directly to the source website. It was on our To Do List. Thanks for the reminder!
SundayNiteDinner at 3:19AM on 07/03/08
Great fun -- but my attempt to upload an image got an "internal server error" response, twice :(
mrslucas at 11:32AM on 07/05/08
I love Photograzing! I think the community aspect makes it unique. It's really cool to see photos from posters you are familiar with from the SE discussion community but might not be as familiar with their blogs. Nice work!
BrooklynBrownie at 9:50AM on 07/06/08
@mrslucas: Were you uploading images larger than 1 MB? That can cause a 500 error. Try submitting an image with a smaller file size. Please let me know if you have any more problems.
Raphael at 2:51PM on 07/06/08
It's like some sort of crazy food photo dream come true. Seriously.
missbhavens at 4:59PM on 07/06/08
I wonder, can these be 'food-related' pictures rather than just straightforward dishes? I have some reasonably good pictures of ingredients, including over 200 different varieties of apple, more than 100 varieties of tomato and so on. As long as I only upload 'beautiful' ones, are these welcome too? I would link back to my website http://www.whatamieating.com - Would this be acceptable?
With thanks,
Foodlexi at 10:05AM on 07/07/08
@Foodlexi: Great question! Yes 'food-related' or 'ingredient porn' is totally acceptable! In linking back, we'd prefer if you linked to that ingredients individual page instead of the main index.
Alaina Browne at 2:53PM on 07/07/08
Thanks Aliana, I will do some of the necessary work on some of my images and link back to the appropriate page on http://www.whatamieating.com
Foodlexi at 5:10AM on 07/08/08
@ Jim Glover: obviously you've never been pregnant.
MsKira at 11:57AM on 07/09/08
I have images posted on my blog that are all bigger than 1 MB, but have a zillion photos in my iphoto that are not as big. Can I link to them instead?
Boscompb at 1:52PM on 07/12/08
I'm assuming that no toy/lomo cameras are allowed to play.
Barbara Hanson at 3:13PM on 07/23/08
@Boscompb: I'd recommend uploading the smaller versions you have stored in iPhoto, and linking to the larger version on your blog.
@Barbara Hanson: As long as it's a delicious-looking photo, we don't care what kind of camera was used to take the photo.
Alaina Browne at 5:50PM on 07/23/08