Jan 8 / katharine

Announcing DMBLGIT January 2011

‘Does My Blog Look Good In This’ (DMBLGIT), conceived by Andrew of SpittoonExtra is a well attended and much awaited monthly food photography event that is open to all bloggers who have posted a photograph with a food or drink connection. Food bloggers submit their best photos from posts they completed during the previous month which are then judged and scored by a team of five handpicked judges. Winners are made covering three categories (edibility, aesthetics, and originality) plus three overall winners. The December 2010 edition was hosted by Erica at cookingforseven.com. Congrats to the winners!

Here are the rules:

Only one food/drink photograph may be entered per person.
The photograph must have been taken by you.
The photograph must have been posted on your blog during December 2010.
The deadline to submit your entry is January 20th 2011 at midnight, Pacific Standard Time.
A panel of judges (soon to be announced) will assess the quality of all of the entries before eventually selecting winners from the pictures. There will be winners in the following categories:
- Aesthetics: composition, food styling, lighting, focus, etc.
- Edibility: Does the photo make us want to take a big bite out of our computer monitor while drooling on our keyboard?
- Originality: a photo that makes you stop, look twice, and think “wow, I never thought of photographing it like that before!”
- Overall Winner: the photograph that scores the highest when individual scores for Aesthetics, Edibility and Originality are added up.
- Results will be announced on 1st of February 2011.

How can you join in?

Draft an e-mail with DMBLGIT in the subject line.
Attach one qualifying food or drink photo, preferably 350 pixels in width.
Include the following:
- Your name
- Your blog URL
- The title of the image/what it is
- The URL of the post where the photo first appeared
- The camera you used
- Send an email with the above information to katharine@agirlinmadrid.com
- Please note that by submitting a photo, entrants agree to their photo being redisplayed and altered in size on the host’s page and on the SpittoonExtra DMBLGiT page.
- I have created a gallery in Picasa where I will be adding your photos within 48hrs of submission. I will also acknowledge your email. If you do not receive an acknowledgment within 48hrs, please leave a message in the comment section of this post.
If you would like to host an edition of DMBLGIT, please look up here for hosting instructions.

9 Comments

Soma / Jan 20 2011

Thanks for hosting this wonderful event. Just mailed you my entry.
Nancy/SpicieFoodie / Jan 14 2011

Hi, I found your blog because of the GMBLGIT event, and it was my first time visiting. You have a really nice blog, great recipes and your photography is beautiful. I’ll look forward to visiting here more often.
- katharine / Jan 15 2011
  
  Thank you for dropping by!
Nithya / Jan 12 2011

I have sent my entry to the event Thanks and good luck too
Umm Mymoonah / Jan 10 2011

Hi Kathryn,
I mailed my entry on Saturday, just wondering if you have received it.
Kathryn Grace / Jan 8 2011

In other contests the photos were not allowed to be watermarked. I noticed you do not have this in the rules, so is it now allowed? (Also, the December 2010 edition was hosted by Erica at http://www.cookingforseven.com).
- katharine / Jan 9 2011
  
  Hello Kathryn, only a small watermark is allowed. Thank you for the heads up on my error I’ve made a change. Good luck!
  - Kathryn Grace / Jan 10 2011
    
    Thank you! Just sent my entry in.