This has been a short short month for me. I had to go on a couple of short yet intensive work trips and an assortment of social events and a holiday party that has left me drained and dreading my hair iron. I am sorry for the delay in posting the results of the November 2011 DMBLGiT photo contest. The judges did a great job and for the most part we were pretty consistent in our scoring. So much so that a couple of categories actually tied up and I had to do a quick round 2 to make the final decision.
Enough of my yada-yada. Here are the winners!
Overall Winners
First place: Soma of eCurry with her Strawberry Basil Ice-Cream. She is way ahead of everyone else in terms of her scores and also scored high for originality.
Second place: Chang Pick Yin of PickYin’s Place with her Chicken with Rice and Mushrooms.
Third place: there’s a tie!
Pamela of Unodedos with her Cherry Tomato, Mozzarella, and Zucchini Pie
and Vidya of Kurry Leaves with her Prawns and Drumstick Curry
We also picked one winner from each of the individual categories used for judging – Edibility, Originality, and Aesthetics. The winners in this category are chosen outside of the overall winners above.
Winner of Edibility Category
Jasenka of Sweet Corner with her Pumpkin Cheesecake
Winner of Originality Category
Claude-Olivier of 1001 Recettes with her image titled “Autumn is coming…”
Winner of Aesthetics Category
Karen of Citrus and Candy with her Vietnamese Chicken Salad
If you want to take a peek at all the entries, here’s the Picasa Gallery. Huge thanks to the judges once again, and also to Andrew for giving me the opportunity to host DMBLGiT this month. It was fun and totally worth all the spreadsheet and excel-crunching I had to do! If you are interesting in being a host of a future edition of DMBLGiT, find details here on how to go about it.
DMBLGiT December 2011 Edition will be hosted by Arundhuti of My Saffron Kitchen.
Nags just dont give the rude comments a thought. Your work is awesome and the pics are truly nice nice hosting and nice event dear
Congrats to all the winners!!! I love that Pumpkin cheesecake pic!
hey nags, i went thru the entire picasa gallery and have too many favourites. but, IMHO, there are way nicer pics than the cherry tomato pie, autumn is coming and the chicken salad.
p.s : i love love the strawberry icecream pic. so so different and beautiful !!!
Just wanted to say something in reply to some comments about the photograph that won this edition of DMBLGiT. I was one of the judges for this month's competition, and let me make it clear that my comment is not a justification for our choices. We judged/ scored the entries according to certain criteria and our perceptions, and we all stand by it.
Also, please remember that the results are an aggregation of all the judges' scores and sometimes that means the results can go either way.
Yes, different people see food photography, like everything else, differently. I am not a fan of very "whitish" and over exposed or highly "staged" photographs, but that's me!
I think we need to see food photography competitions as not necessarily being about which photograph depicts good looking food but also which photograph makes you look at food differently. Photography is a creative process as well (like painting for example). I don't like Salvadore Dali, but the world doesn't agree with me!
Yes, I agree I would not eat icecream which has been spread on a wooden board with a basting/ paint brush.
But sometimes photography (food included)is also about breaking the mould and getting creative/ artistic and that particular photograph must have scored high on orginality. But I understand that this is my personal view and one that not everyone will subscibe to it.
I'm with Nags on both issues… one on the judges selection… the winner's shown creativity as well as style and i'm sure the dish would taste great too. in a contest like this where all the dishes look so good, these factors make a difference.
As regards diplomacy vs 'being frank'… if it's just to be hurtful, there's no points for being smug and honest. as a doc, for me, its the difference between telling a new mother that her son may have developmental difficulties and telling her that her kid's gonna be a retard… there are ways to convey a message and get if point across diplomatically as well.
I think ALL the photos are great! Well done to everyone!
Gorgeous selection of photgraphs!
Love all the pictures… the first one is very original but doesn't really have the appeal of food or deliciousness in it… I've just started taking interest in photography, so I've been looking at that picture for long trying to figure out why it won the first prize…guess one needs to be a good photographer to understand the principle behind it 😉
Though a vegetraian… I find the second picture more appealing.
Great job, Nags…
Lot of talented people about ..and people who do not expend their energy constructively have to put down those who do…!!!Everyone is entitled to their opinion.. but minding manners while doing that, also counts…
An ony mouse 🙂
exactly Nags,I agree in people having different perspectives, and this is my perspective and I have the right to my opinion. I was taught to tell the truth while growing up.Tough luck if all the comments don't always look like sunshine and rainbows to you.In that case you should have activated 'comment visible after moderation',looks like you cannot handle criticism
Anonymous 1- Sarah