Let's start with full disclosure. I do take food photos to put on Instagram and Twitter all the time.
Most of them are are work related and feature cheese. And in my opinion, cheese is truly one of the most photogenic foods.
The rest of my foodie pictures are usually either superbly plated desserts which are edible works of art or my own recipe creations which tend to look odd but creative. My own cooking falls in the category of possibly the least photogenic of foods. And I am ok with that because it tastes goood!
What I dislike so much are the folks who feel the need to interrupt the flow of a meal by taking pictures of each dish and posting them. Not only it is rude to your fellow diners to force a pause for the photo but put your phone away already! And then there are the numerous posts over one evening. Does anyone really enjoy seeing course after course of someone else's meal on their computer screen?
I pledge right now to only blog and tweet a single plate from a meal and limit the pictures to truly amazing dishes. Food as an artistic endeavor should be celebrated. As someone who follows the Slow Food movement, I prefer to stay in the moment - to enjoy the food and the company; to appreciate the effort put into producing the ingredients and the complete composed meal I am eating; to be thankful for all that I have and for my good fortune to eat this well.
