Q. You eat all the time. How come you aren’t as wide as a house?
Calories are not all that matter & all calories are not the same. Read my {coming soon!} series and get the nitty-gritty on how I eat what I want and stay slim.
Q. Did you take all the photos on here? What camera do you use?
I shot every last one. I use a Nikon D300 & a Nikon D700 that I lovingly refer to as my husband. We go on dates almost every single day & often for fabulous long road trips too.
Q. Do you use Photoshop to alter your images?
I do not use Photoshop. I don’t possess a copy. I use Lightroom to catalog & process the RAW files into something I can print & publish.
Q. What’s with all the feet? Do you have a foot fetish?
I didn’t think I had a foot fetish, but maybe I do & am in denial. My feet are my favorite part of my body. It all started because I make photo books of all my road trips & when I made the first one I realized that I wasn’t anywhere in the book. Since it’s a bit of a pain (and a bit weird if you ask me) to get a tripod out just to do self portraits, I started photographing my feet wherever I went so it would make the books a lot more personal to me. From that point on, the title page of every book became my signature: a shot of my feet on that trip. Plus friends & clients wanted trip photos of me from the road so I started sending foot shots along the way. Now I get in trouble if I don’t post foot pictures on Facebook when I’m out & about.
Q. Why is your blog called ’Foodie Footnotes’?
Given that I have been calling myself a ‘foodie’ for about as long as the term existed, and given that footnotes are notes written as an aside to an event or larger piece of work, and given that we have ascertained that I may well have a foot fetish, it just all seemed to come together as a name.
Q. Who built your website?
I did. With the odd bit of geeky assistance from the fabulous Techs at NetRivet who secretly sent me short strings of code for the really complicated bits that I just couldn’t work out how to do on my own. I did not abuse them. I really only begged for help (and sent chocolate) when I’d spent a truly long time trying to figure it out to no avail. They are the best techs in the history of the Universe.
Q. What’s the deal with getting free meals & free stuff? Can I trust your reviews to be honest? Do you “like” stuff just because it was free or as a favor to a friend?
Go here. {Coming soon!} I wrote a whole seperate page on that. Sad reflection on our culture, but true.
Q. How “real” are your restaurant review photos? Do you have the chefs style the plates in advance to look their best or do a ton of other prep? What about lighting?
My restaurant review photos are entirely real. No one knows I am going to take shots until the plate is placed before me & I whip my camera out. There is no prep, no styling, no advance warning. What you see is what I got served up to me. That is also why the shots are not perfect. I have 2 minutes to work with what I have – the food, the available light, the space – and I do try to be as unbotrusive to fellow diners as possible…one reason why I don’t use flash unless it’s a desperate situation. Some of my shots make me wince, but what can you do other than go back and eat it again? Except then it’s not exactly the same experience as I wrote about the first time, so I don’t do that. Oh, yes, once I had to do a re-run because I came away with zero shots. I ‘fessed up right there on the post.
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