Apricot Pillow Cookies – traditional Danish recipe.
Foodgawker: Composition – too tight

This colorful rainbow salad will delight your guests.
Tastespotting: lighting, not sharp

Yummy Salad
Low lighting and/or underexposed

Fruitcake to go!
Rejected by Foodgawker, reason "Lighting/shadow/exposure issues"

White chocolate and raspberry cookie bars. Comfort food for a dull, dank day.
Tastespotting: Lighting

Simple recipe for elegant moist chocolate cherry pie – impress your relatives with your baking skills.
Foodgawker: Lighting/exposure issues

Aromatic cheesecake with lemon curd. Essence of Christmas.
foodgawker: lighting

Dark chocolate cheesecake with port and wine poached pears and cinnamon ganache.
Rejected from Foodgawker for harsh lighting and/or overexposed

Foodgawker: Rejected Composition/background issues

Pomegranate & Ricotta Toasts with Honey & Rosemary
Foodgawker: Harsh lighting;
Tastespotting: Composition.

Mission Foods is rolling out a new Super Soft Mission Tortilla, reformulated for softer texture, with the same unparalleled taste and quality that you’ve come to trust, and now we have created a blogger contest …

A crisp and chewy lemon chip cookie with local dried cranberries and almonds.
Rejected by Foodgawker, reason "Composition – too tight".  Also went missing from Tastespotting.