OMG what NERDS.

*shuffles feet*

Yoshi has commented that EM is going to go to friends houses for dinner and think they are weird because they don't photograph their food before they eat it.

I like to eat hot food though so I've become very fast at shooting.

I totally photograph food, too - not a lot, but I'm certainly guilty of it. I especially like photographing the stages of a special recipe, or the raw ingredients.

What makes me laugh, though, are food blogs that take that to the limit and have 20 photos per recipe. "First, chop the onions" with a picture or two of the chopped onions. OK...I know what chopped onions look like, but thanks for letting me admire your knife, hands, cutting board, and skillz.

Yeah I;d like it if the photos were more "THIS! YOUR ROUX SHOULD LOOK LIKE THIS, STICKING JUST THIS MUCH BEFORE YOU ADD CHEESE, YOU GETTING THIS?"

My pride in doing this is completely justifiable because 1. I don't photograph every little thing, 2. I pair the photos with funny-to-me jokes, and 3. The recipes are damn good and I want you to make them too.

To solve the hot-food problem, gomi, is to set everything up before hand, lighting and camera and plates and settings and everything. Then when dinner is ready, you plate it and shoot it and then it's in your belly.

I'm working more on the presentation of the final dish, so that the photo gives more of a sense of the setting in which you would eat the meal rather than just OMG FOOD GOOD.

I saw that article and instantly thought of the lovely and talented gomichild.

As did I, terrapin!

Oh you kids.

I love you people who photograph your meals and post them so I can oooooh and aaaaah. I wish I had the consistency, the patience, the brightly-lit apartment, and the, uh, decent camera to do it myself; my blog would quickly turn into a cooking blog if I did.

But I don't have any of that, so I doubly appreciate when other people do it.

But then, I think there's little so interesting as a peek into someone else's daily life. I like the wardrobe refashions and wardrobe remix photos, too. I read the oft-disparaged mommy blogs though I have no children. Maggie Mason wrote an early book on blogging tips and prompts and titled it No One Cares What You Had for Lunch, and I thought, "But you couldn't be more wrong!"

I AM SHOCKED THAT PEOPLE WOULD BEHAVE LIKE THIS!!!! YOU'D THINK THERE WERE ENTIRE BLOGS DEVOTED TO THIS SORT OF NONSENSE OR SOMETHING!?!?!0ne!!!