Just uploaded about 30 new photos to the site - haven't a list of which recipes, I'm afraid but you can find all 149 recipes that now have photographs by ticking the "Only recipes with photos" tickbox in the Search screen and leaving the text box empty.

Don't forget, if you're cooking any of our recipes and have a digital camera available we're always grateful to receive your images for inclusion on the website.

Please keep these guidelines in mind if you:-

1. Please turn off any camera settings that imprint the date or time onto the photograph.

2. Please take the photograph with your camera set to the highest quality and resolution JPEG it offers.

3. Try taking the image both with and without flash and send us both versions if you're not sure which is better.

4. Try and ensure that backgrounds are uncluttered and that dishes are plain in design if possible.

5. Please do not size the image down before sending it to us. Receiving the full larger size image allows us more flexibility with adjusting colour balance, cropping and so on. We can then size it down ourselves before adding it to the site.

6. Please include the recipe ID number (shows in the address bar when the recipe page is displayed) as well as the recipe title in the file name, if possible. If you're not sure how to do this, don't worry, just put a note into the email letting us know which filename equals which recipe.

7. Please send us your full name if you wish us to include your name on the picture (to show that it was provided by you). If you're not bothered, let us know and we'll leave the picture without text as we do for our own.

8. If you are sending a number of large image files to us in one go, please contact me on kaveyf@hotmail.com and I will provide an alternative email address for you to send them to that will not bounce them back to you because the mailbox is full or can't accept large emails. I don't want to publish it here because I'm trying to reduce the number of spams I receive to it.

Many thanks indeed,

Kavita

I have hundreds in my folders, I will keep a trickle coming in to you!

Mum

Quote - "Please take the photograph with your camera set to the highest quality and resolution JPEG it offers"

Is this really practical?.. My camera takes 3megapixel photos and is by no means a big size (some take 4,5,6... 10 megapixel etc)... most email servers have a limit to the size you can email (I know I've had problems sending emails of Christmas parties to family who are on some providers as the overall size of the email was too big and rejected)...

If your camera is one of the newer/better ones that really does take seriously high resolution it might need reducing before it can be sent as an email.

Just thinking aloud...Steve

Steven

The problem is that we often get sent photos that are either very poor quality because they have been overcompressed or are so small that I can't apply any cropping or further post processing to improve composition, colour-balance, contrast etc.

Certainly if your email system doesn't allow you to send large files then reduce them in size to a certain extent - I'd prefer 2000 pixels along each side as a minimum.

Main thing is no date stamps and not too strongly compressed either.

No problem, just wanted to make sure ...

Thanks for checking!

Just had to send an email to work using hotmail account and it sent with just short of 10meg of photo's on it.