The linen giveaway has ended and congratulations to Julie, commenter #95 for winning the linens!
Summer 2011 is going to be exciting for us again in beautiful Boulder, Colorado!
Our good friend, fabulous photographer, bad-ass skier and doggie lover Jen Yu from Use Real Butter & founder of Food & Light invited us back for another intensive 2 day workshop!
This years instructor roster also includes another dear friend, person, father, husband, charcuterie meister and amazing photographer Matt Wright from Wright Food.
We’re banding together, four of us, to share and teach Food Photography to everyone at this years workshop. This two day workshop is always small and intimate. Each of the instructors can give the valuable one-on-one time to each student.
We know how important it is to be able to work individually with students and we hope that everyone leaves more informed and inspired to take their food photography skills to another level.
The workshop includes 2 days of shooting in two different locations with gorgeous natural light.
- Topics on camera settings and shooting in natural light will be covered.
- Artificial light- all four of us have shot with flashes/strobes so we’ll be discussing food photography in artificial light for those of you interested.
- Food styling, propping, and editing will be covered in either lecture or live demonstration.
- The first venue has gorgeous natural light & we’ll have props and pretty food ready for you to practice with.
- At the 2nd venue, which is a restaurant, we’ll have a session on lifestyle photography & photojournalism with the cook staff as our models!
- Bring your camera, laptop, extra batteries, questions and enthusiasm because these 2 days will rock.
All four of us will be talking about many topics, so we’ll have many answers for you.
To enroll or find out more about the workshop, please visit the Food and Light website. Look forward to seeing you there!
scenes from last year’s workshop
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To celebrate the love of food photography and styling, we’re doing a special little giveaway!
When used in the right way, linens provide a valuable texture to food photography. We’re always collecting great linens to use in our food photography shots and as always, it’s exciting to come across pieces that we know will work great.
We found some great hand stitched linens with delicate patterns and color that would be wonderful for Spring food shots.
What is so wonderful about these linens are that they are double sided, with two great patterns and textures in one. Each linen is so versatile!
We bought these ourselves and want to share a set of 3 linens to one lucky person!
Giveaway Rules:
- Leave your comment below to enter the drawing for the set of 3 linens.
- Extra Entry: tweet this post & come back here to leave the twitter link for your 2nd comment
- Linen Giveaway ends Sunday, February 27, 2011 at midnight PST
- Winner will be selected by random number generator and announced back on this post on Monday, February 28, 2011
Good luck on the giveaway and hope to see you at Food & Light Boulder!
each linen has 2 sides, 2 different patterns
many more options for your food photographs
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Such gorgeous linens! I wish I could make it out to the US to attend your workshop…. maybe next year!
The linens are plain gorgeous… specially set on that mute white background. I wonder if you ship to Europe. And I wish the workshop was a little bit closer to my place
Love those linens! They are perfect to give my foodphotography a boost!
Oh love, love. Light and linens. Happiness-inducing!
I would *love* to attend … but I’m another international gal … so will have to save up
PS. Just re-tweeted you on @EasyPeasyOrganc
Wow! I was just thinking yesterday about needing to get some linens to add a little variety to my photo backgrounds (for the food photos–the water buffalo don’t get linens as props!). The radish photos above are stunning–they truly are a work of art.
Beautiful linens and beautiful shots! I really badly wanted to go to that workshop last year but couldn’t afford it. Now that I’m a student again, I can afford it even less, but please continue doing it and I’ll try to save up :).
Gorgeous linens! I wish I could join you all in Boulder this summer. (The workshop was SO great last year I would go again in a second!) Unfortunately I’ll be a little tied up this summer with the soon-to-arrive bambino. Hopefully next year!
Love the linens, the textures, and the shots! Oh I would love to join you this summer, I’m going to see if I can arrange my schedule! It would be splendid and I know I have SO much to learn!
Those linens are so pretty!
Beautiful linens! Pictures look great!
gorgeous linens!! i want them
Beautiful! I would love to go to the workshop (I am researching it now!) and would love these linens. So soft and lovely.
Beautiful. I say you can never have too many linens!
Wow, the linens are beautiful.
It’s so hard to find good linens for photography, I would be thrilled to get a hand with the hunt! I would have signed up for that class in a heartbeat, too, if only I wasn’t firmly planted on the east coast for the time being…
Beautiful linens!
And now I´m sad, because the event is so far away from my country. Gorgeous linens!
I would love to go! And the linens are pretty!
I would dearly love some of these gorgeous linens, especially since I can’t make it to F&L!
Ooh, I love those radish photos!
I would love to win those linens
So pretty.
Here is my second entry on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/#!/brandiego/status/38616683459514368
You can find me @brandiego
Thanks!!
Brandon
I love linens almost as much as I love my garden. Almost!
Carolyn
Linen Prop Giveaway & News Food & Light Food Photography Workshop http://t.co/Hgc5JCj via @WhiteOnRice
these are beautiful!
Any chance you will share where the linens are from for those of us who don’t win?
Also, I am really hoping to attend Food and Light, but I am afraid it is going to fill up before next Friday (pay day). If it doesn’t, I’ll be there.
Lovely linens – I hope you will post where you located the linens for all of us that are not the fortunate winner.
Your photos are bing-bang awesome….a bacchanal for the brain! Thx for the inspiring text and pics.
Those are beautiful! I could use some new stuff. For realsie. My photos are all starting to look the same.
Ooooh, the green one is gorgeous!
Adore beautiful linens as a backdrop for food. Thanks for this chance to win some.
Wow! Beautiful photography, I would love to register for the workshop!
What beautiful linens! They look great in your photos!
Lovely Linens….I too wish I could attend the workshop….May be next year once I secure a Job…
And, I shared with everyone via @CMRinLA :
http://twitter.com/#!/CMRInLA/status/38626609938436096
It’s an easy thing to share great work with others.
Gorgeous lines! Perfect for food photos–interesting, but doesn’t detract from food. I want!
Tweeted it here…http://twitter.com/foodieanns
wow, lovely linens and fabulous captures of food in fine settings. thanks for this chance to win something worthwhile.
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Tweeted this @kphipps
Check out this cool new workshop from White on Rice- http://whiteonricecouple.com/still-life/food-photography-workshop/#comment-31072
I’ve already signed up for Food and Light- so excited!
Those linens are beautiful!
Erin- look forward to meeting you in August!
Todd & Diane :
Your photos are so magical, pure beauty. I would love to make the workshop but I’m in Italy :/ .
It’s always a pleasure receive your posts,so inspiring, I love cooking & baking.
Saluti ! (sorry for my English) .. Linens are exquisite.
Trying to photograph through a pair of bifocals brings it’s own set of challenges. I need all the help I can get….pretty linens to the rescue! Giggles
I love these beautiful linens. Perfect for nice photo shoots!
I’ve twitted with @anamaria_p ” Linen Prop Giveaway & News Food & Light Food Photography Workshop http://t.co/ihdyYjV via @WhiteOnRice “
Love the beautiful linens and adore your site!
Beautiful! I would love to try to get to your workshop, I am always up for comments and instruction.Thanks for your imput!!
Oh how I wish I could go to the workshop! We need a WORC East Coast baby!!
I would love to win those beautiful linens too.
Crossing my fingers!
Lovely linens indeed
These linens are beautiful! They add such a rustic, homely feel to the photographs. Wonderful!
Lovely! I adore using good linens when I serve food in my kitchen, ecpecially with fruit or bread. They just add a special element of care I think.
I love the idea of using linens for color and texture when photographing food. These are just beautiful, too!
I love those!
Wow those are gorgeous!! Keep up the good work…
loving you guys on twitter, too!
http://twitter.com/#!/jackiesuejones
gorgeous linens! i’d love to win ‘em! that rhymed.
Beautiful linens!
And beautiful photos. Unsure if I can afford a plane ticket to CO, so keeping fingers crossed that you’ll do one of these in Orange County.
A girl can hope…
[K]
Tweeted (@Foodiebride)!
Lovely colors and designs. They look almost antique. Thanks for offering this.
Cheers,
*Heather*
Tweeted the giveaway as well.
I wish I could attend workshop by you guys.But I dont fit the criterion itself.These lines looks beautiful..would love to own some.
I love those linens, the green one is especially appealing and the photos with the tomatoes I love! Of course I would like to win them, but like others have mentioned, I would also like to know where to buy them.
And I am doing my best to make it to your workshop, I had such an amazing time at the Food Shoot Out and I know the workshop will help me take it to the next level!
Tweeted the giveaway!
And of course, I tweeted about the giveaway.
https://twitter.com/#!/TheCilantropist/status/38644854921773056
How much fun does that look? What a great idea and in Boulder of all gorgeous places!
These would be the perfect addition to our blog post pics! I hope we win them, they are so pretty!
The radish photos are fabulous!
Makes me glad my seedlings are coming up~
Love those linens. We are working on our photography skills and these would be an excellent addition
-L
Just spread the love on twitter! @lilyellowkitchn
Gorgeous! Can’t wait for the workshop too!!
Those Are Adorable! I really should start accumulating things like that, I’m sure my handful of readers are sick of seeing my backsplash all the time… I’ll be keeping this workshop in the back of my mind too
oh wow beautiful linens! they’d really brighten up a table and photo!
Your photography and website are amazing! You have inspired me to start my own Victory Garden – this weekend the living rosemary hedges & raised blackberry beds are going in! Thanks for doing this giveaway
Such a lovely giveaway! I love the colors and the subtle linens really do add an extra pop to the pictures!
Oh I would love to win some linens! I recently bought some that I thought were cute but realized very quickly they were way too busy to be used for food photos! I’d love to win these!
Nice.
These are really beautiful. They remind me of Spring and I love how light and airy your photos are in this post! They make me feel so happy! Wish we could attend your workshop!
Here is the link to our Twitter status: https://twitter.com/KitchConundrum/status/38667525663367169 Happy to spread the joy!
Beautiful linens! I wish the workshop wasn’t so far away from Florida. Oh and that I could take the time off work! Next time.
As always, WORC killing it with the stunning photography and food.
Love the linen! Are the two day workshops for experienced photographers or are they also ok for the real real beginners?
hi leah, the class is great for real real beginners. hope to see you there!
Gorgeous linens! Its amazing how they can change the entire look of a photo! Beautiful!!!
Beauts they are! Nice and Rustic
ooh purty! i’m really need to bulk up on my food styling props…love that these have two sides to them
Gorgeous linen. I have never seen double sided print inkitchem towels before. Great idea.
Beautiful linens! I love the material and the colors.
I am so excited to hear about the workshop! I started following your blog after seeing photos from you being there last year
The linens are so beautiful and your images utilizing them are fantastic.
Can’t wait to hear who wins..I am off to check out the workshop link now.
Such perfect linen – but the shots makes me crave the fresh produce just as much, so great work! Radish envy anyone?
Lovely linens – they are so pretty! Wish I were in the area so I could come to the photography class!
beautiful napkins! I would love these
Going to look into the work shop too!
What beautiful linens! I wish I could make it to Boulder. It really is a beautiful backdrop to your workshop.
Yay for linens!
Those are sweet, lovely linens. I would love to win them! And the photography is so spectacular!!
My photography skills could use all the help they can get.
The linens are lovely. Any chance you’ll be doing a photography workshop in Socal in the future?
These linens are so gorgeous:) I would love to be able to make it to this workshop, but it just won’t work for me. Maybe the linens will suffice:)
I love linens and the variety they come in, yours are beautiful. I recently got some from my grandmother. Hand embroidery and weaving make cloth more dimensional than printing.
I am crazy for cloth napkins and those are so, so, springy and pretty. Please let me know where you got them, in case I don’t win.
Love them! So beautiful. Would love to have them.
I’m looking at these gorgeous photos and salivating and then at the end there is an add for how to cut down on your belly fat!!! HAHAHAHA!! I never worried about belly fat until I started photographing food. Even as I write this, I am sucking in my belly!!
I really, really want to come back to Boulder. I had such a great time at last year’s Food & Light. Gorgeous linens, too. I love that they’re double-sided.
Thanks for being such an inspirational force in the community. Love you both!
Is this giveaway open to international readers too? Anyway they are so gorgeous! And all the best to the workshop!
Wow, I’d LOVE to attend this workshop! Sounds and looks amazing!
Great giveaway, by the way! Those are definitely perfect for versatile photos : )
I want to attend the workshop
Love those linens!
Those linens are so lovely!!
You two always take the most gorgeous photos! The props are always perfectly picked and placed to make all the details pop out. Love it!
Just gorgeous!!! Thanks for sharing!
Lovely linens! Good luck on your workshop!
This sounds so fun! What a great giveaway, too!!!
The linens are absolutely gorgeous!
lovely linens! i am a great fan of the hard surfaces in the pictures too!
Oh, how I wish this event were something I could attend! Alas, the airfare from Canberra, Australia is simply too prohibitive. At least I can put my hand up for your gorgeous linens, seeing as Iown almost no props of my own yet!
Lovely!
Workshop sounds great. Linens and photos are gorgeous!
What a wonderful giveaway. I love the linens. I wish I were on the West Coast, so I could take advantage of the workshop. It sounds wonderful!
how can i say anything that hasn’t already been said!
exquisite. arresting. stunning. (ok, I looked in my thesaurus!)
Love these linens!! Love your website!!!
I don’t dig on radishes but I would TOTALLY eat those ones. Lovely!
Love the linens! They add such a great textural element in photos.
Btw the food photography workshop is a great idea. I wish I could be part of it. Ah! but Boulder is far away from NYC…. perhaps next time!
Oh, how I wish I could make it to the workshop. Next year I’ll be first in line! These linens are so pretty. I’m always looking for new props to add life to my photos, but haven’t had great luck in the linen department.
Your photographs are always so beautiful!
I tweeted about the giveaway.
http://twitter.com/#!/cookincanuck/status/39022562012966912
What a great giveaway! Beautiful linens. Your photos are always so inspiring.
I tweeted the giveaway
Gorgeous! Where can we buy them??
I have a linen obsession! I do wish you weren’t on the opposite coast, I’d jump at the chance to attend your workshop!
Those are beautiful! Thanks for the chance to win:) It would be so nice to attend the workshop, but I am taking the kids to visit their grandparents in Serbia in August:(
I tweeted your post as @Bibberche
Gorgeous linens! I wish I could join you in Colorado this summer, but unfortunately I think it’ll be impossible.
One more reason to visit Colorado in the summer
Such beautiful linens! They really do add a simple, yet beautiful element to the photographs posted. Love Love Love them! And Love the website!
Great giveaway!
Lovely linens–and your photos are making me crave spring. However, I’m in Wisconsin, so I’ve got a long time before a freshly dug radish crosses my lips!
Lovely, lovely is all that comes to mind. The clean lines are beautiful.
Beautiful…me want!
I wish we had food specific workshops like this in NZ, interesting to see you use no bounce cards in the pix with three ladies photographing. Any ideas of good online tips for us enthusiastic Kiwi bloggers
Oh these linens are beautiful! I’ve been looking for something simular to thse but cound’t find them anywhere! These are perfect! I love their colors and patterns. So lovely. I’m so excited and can’t wait to use them to take pictures and post on my food blog!
I hope I will. Thanks for this wonderful giveaway.
Just tweeted about this giveaway and here’s the link. http://twitter.com/uTry_it
Thank you again for this beautiful giveaway!
I love to collect linens for photography props but have never really learnt to use them well. Thank you for demonstrating their use in your beautiful photos!
The linens are lovely and perfect for shooting food in the Spring and Summer! The workshop sounds fantastic…so wish I could come to that one!
I loved the workshop last year–such great lectures, photography time, and beautiful natural light. It sounds like you have even more in store for this year!
Wonderful linens! They would benefit any food photographer. Thanl you for your generosity.
Light and bright – the linens look wonderful in your photos. Always amazed by your eye – objects appear at their best!
I have been trying to use linens more frequently in my photos yours are beautiful
Love the linens!
Love the linens! Thank you for this giveaway!
I just tweeted http://twitter.com/#!/thelittlekitchn/status/39475250634821633
Beautiful linens! Love the light spring look!
Lovely linens to perk up spring food photos!
Tweeted: http://twitter.com/#!/saladgoddess/status/39500665931702272
Pretty linens and gorgeous photography on your site! I made the umami burger for my husband and he loved it – thank you!
Gorgeous linen patterns and colours, they would go so well with the lovely textures and colours of the fresh Summer fruits here in Australia!
Photography + Food + Stellar Instructors / Locale = Must-do. Attempting to clear my work schedule so I can attend
Calescence: Food Photography & Styling Workshop http://bit.ly/dQXZ5V via @WhiteOnRice
Original Tweet: http://twitter.com/Calescence/statuses/39530944260091904
Ah, all of this is just lovely. Thank you for sharing !
Beautiful linens, beautiful photos.
I am a sucker for linens. I’m always buying them up at thrift stores and antique shops.
Sigh… how I’d love to be at this workshop. Obviously that isn’t going to happen, so will hope for the next best thing-random pick! I would love to be entered in the giveaway. Those are some very pretty & unique linens. {I have a US shipping address}
I’m sure your class will be wonderful–you are both so talented and you are generous and insightful teachers too!
Ooo, those are beautiful!
what lovely linens! where did you find them?
Discovered your site from Margaret’s, and I’m so glad! I do food photography for my local farmers’ market and I’m sure to pick up many useful tips here. (If I don’t win those lovely linens, please let me and your other readers know where to purchase them — thanks!)
Gorgeous, gorgeous linens! I’m currently on a hunt for some myself. Fingers crossed that I win those! Would love to know where they are from?
These are really beautiful!! They would be a wonderful addition to any home…welcome spring!
I would love to have these linens. Now convincing my husband not to mop up spilled coffee with them would be a whole new challenge.
Your photos have left me longing for spring to seep into my snowy reality!
Love your work – come up to Canada for a workshop!
There is nothing I like better than something that’s versatile and cute! I’m talking about these linens…don’t you get any ideas! They would show up great in my pics, especially since I’m using my 1976 35mm Pentax! and the best thing is that after I’m done taking pics I can wear one out for an evening on the town!
@TheGayGourmet Michael Munoz
Linen Prop Giveaway & News Food & Light Food Photography Workshop whiteonricecouple.com/still-life/foo… via @WhiteOnRice
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Oh those linens are gorgeous! Thank you for the giveaway opportunity. My linens need an update for sure…I’ve stained many of them while shooting.
Love those linens. If I win, I might even be have to get my iron out of mothballs so I can iron them.
Those are beautiful linens! I would love to pose some food on them
These are simply wonderful. And double-sided! That’s (maybe) the best part.
Your photography by the way is stunning, I’ve just discovered your website and will be a regular visitor for sure. Any plans to do a workshop in San Francisco?
Thanks Sara,
No immediate plans for SF, although we never know where life will lead us, and we dearly love the bay area.
I love cloth napkins and use them at every meal. These are beautiful so I would like to be included in this giveaway.
Thank you.
These are so fresh and gorgeous!! I would love to attend Food & Light this year and am crossing my fingers that I can make it happen. I heard such great things about it last year.
Beautiful as always! Lovely linen too.
The workshop sounds fun & looks interesting. I would be interested in trying one in the future.
I would love to win the linens. They are beautiful for spring. Thanks
I’m thinking about attending the workshop even though I’m a beginner for sure with my dSLR….but those linens are gorgeous!
Sara- the class is still wonderful for beginners, as we will be covering many basics as well. Hope to see you there!
On 02-24-11 @ 8:40am tweeted by @WrapdnHappiness:
Beautiful work and a chance to win some pretty linens–check them out! http://whiteonricecouple.com/still-life/food-photography-workshop/
P.S. Sorry, I don’t know how to get the specific link to the actual tweet.
I am sooooooooo happy that I stumbled upon your beautiful website! Thank you, thank you!
i would love to attend this workshop but i don’t have a fancy-shmancy camera. i use a regular old digital camera. maybe some day. -wishes-
but those linens are gorgeous. i can’t seem to find any as pretty round these parts.
Oh how I aspire to your photographs!!! (But having a few of your props would be a start, right???)
Okay, I figured out how to get the actual link to my tweet! So please delete my comment (#182) so all is fair in the entires?
http://twitter.com/#!/WrapdnHappiness/status/40797696054796288
Karunaphoto Tracy Grant
One of my favorite food photog blogs is having a giveaway http://tinyurl.com/4aou2yh
I love to get my hands on the linen of cos! But I must confess the radish and tangerines really draw my attention completely–an inspirational blog!
I love that you are doing a giveaway (thanks!) and happen to give us some tips on how to use the items in the giveaway! Fantastic!
Beautiful linen napkins :-)) Thanks for this nice giveaway!
I sooooo want to go to the Food and Light Workshop… Hopefully, you’ll have it again next year and I can definitely go.
Those linens are really pretty. They would be a great addition to my kitchen. Thanks for sharing.
The workshop is almost enough to convince me to stay in Colorado. Looks phenomenal!
Love the Linens! It was a blast meeting you two at last years workshop. I hope this years goes just as well!
New to photography, these look wonderful!
This looks so cool! linens are gorgeous.
first time in your lovely site
beautiful photography and giveaway
Olala, they look very very pretty ! would’nt mind to have them on my table
Anyway, as usual your blog is just a real pleasure to visit ! MERCI !!
These linens are GORGEOUS!