I am the proud host of this month’s “Does My Blog Look Good in This?” (DMBLGIT), a monthly, peer-judged food photography event. Every month, hundreds of mouth-watering photos are submitted by food bloggers from all around the world. All those photos are uploaded in an online gallery and then reviewed by a panel of judges, who score them in three categories: edibility, aesthetics, and originality. The host then compiles the scores to determine the winners.

You can find the rules and submission details below. Once I start receiving the entries, I will be adding them to an online gallery. Three talented food bloggers will join me on board as judges for this month’s edition of DMBLGIT: Paul of Sweet Paul, a blog I recently discovered and can’t get enough of. I read his whole archive from start to finish in a single sitting. Head over to his blog and you’ll see why. Another judge for this month’s event is Allen of Eating Out Loud. Have you seen his series of posts on Turkish food? Drooling here! Last but not least, we have Mark of No Special Effects. This guy can bake apple doughnuts from scratch!!

DMBLGIT (Does My Blog Look Good in This?) October 2008

CRITERIA:

Aesthetics: Composition, food styling, lighting, focus, etc.
Edibility: “Does the photo make us want to dive in and eat the food?”
Originality: The photograph that catches our attention and makes us say “wow!”, displaying something we might not have seen before.
Overall Winner: Top overall scores in all three categories combined.

There will be three overall winners for photographs with the highest point totals in all three categories combined, and one winner in each of the three individual categories.

RULES:

• Only one entry per person (a single photograph, no diptychs).
• The photograph must have been taken by you.
• The photograph must have appeared on your blog during the month of September 2008.
• Deadline: Entries must be received by October 23, 2008

SUBMISSION DETAILS:

Please send your entry to sonmce [at] gmail [dot] com with DMBLGIT as the subject and include the following information:

• Your name
• Your blog’s name and URL
• Your photograph’s title
• URL of the post containing the photograph (permalink)
• Photo, attached in jpeg format, no more than 472 pixels in width
• Type of camera used

The winners will be announced on Friday, October 31, 2008.

Update: The official Instructions for Hosts and Instructions for Participants are available at Spittoon Extra.

Have fun!