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Travel Food Photo Contest: The Winner!

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June  9, 2010
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Many thanks to everyone who submitted photos and voted in our travel food photo contest. The editors of Food52 and of Tablet Hotels have chosen a winner, but it was not an easy decision (we collectively received over 1,600 beautiful photos!).

  • Man with red purse and live chicken, Li Jiang, Yunnan, China.
  • Tai Power Seeff, Li Jiang, Yunnan, China

 

Congratulations to Tai Power Seeff -- the lucky winner of 2 free nights at Healdsburg Modern Cottages (with drinks and appetizers for two at Barndiva) plus $400 in kitchen products from OXO. Our judges chose Tai's photo as the best example of the spirit of the competition -- it's a captivating image, and it goes far beyond traditional food photography, managing to convey, through juxtaposition, a bit of the strange surreality of foreign travel.

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And because people voted in such droves across Tablet's blog Tablet Talk and food52, Tablet has generously added a second prize for the winner of the popular vote: Crystal Brakke, whose Maine lobster photo charmed us all, will also receive two free nights at the Soho Grand in New York City!

  • Maine Lobster
  • Crystal Brakke, Maine

 

Congratulations to both winners and thanks again to all who participated!

 

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maelewis
maelewis June 9, 2010
Everybody seemed to love the chicken and the red purse picture, but I think that there were better photos that captured a sense of place, something exotic, as the michelin guide would say, "Worth a Journey." I thought the top photos that took us away from our own kitchens were the Uzbekistan and Turkey pictures, because they featured food and people in another place, in a well composed artistic photograph. Sorry, I can find that lobster in my own local fish market. I saw the contest as a National Geographic moment, and we clearly have different taste. Putting a cute kid in a photo with a burnt fish does not say travel; it says "bad photo." I liked any of the pictures that would have been likely to appear in the travel pages of a magazine; you had a nice selection of foreign locations that gave a the spirit of the place and something unusual to eat. For all we know, that chicken is the latest addition for the chicken coop instead of the soup pot.
 
Kelsey B.
Kelsey B. June 9, 2010
This was a great contest and I love this picture!
 
Kitchen B.
Kitchen B. June 9, 2010
Congratulations to both winners......and I thought I took creative travel photos. This contest has opened my eyes to the sheer beauty that surrounds us - home and away. Well done
 
mrslarkin
mrslarkin June 9, 2010
These are great. I love chicken guy.
 
Abra B.
Abra B. June 9, 2010
Great choices!
 
Rhonda35
Rhonda35 June 9, 2010
Congratulations to both photographers - fantastic shots. Now, if we could only buy prints of these....
 
lastnightsdinner
lastnightsdinner June 9, 2010
So many beautiful photos, and these two were definitely standouts. Congrats to the winners!
 
DianaP
DianaP June 9, 2010
This was a great contest. Any chance of doing it again in the future?
 
Merrill S.
Merrill S. June 9, 2010
We will definitely be doing more food photo contests, yes. Stay tuned...