Food at UVI, St Thomas, Afternoon on the Green

Nice photos and another great forum for sharing on that tripadvisor site. Seems you've got yourself a wonderful hobby. It helps with so many photogenic subjects, no?

Thanks, Gerie. Their apps/tools make it so easy to do some interesting projects with your photos. What I like about TripWow is that the slideshow doesn't have to reside on their site. You can download it to a DVD or other devices or to your hard drive and still play it as it was created.

But, I'm already bored with their music selections after just two slideshows, so I may have to buy some royalty-free music if I continue to use that app.

The Orchid Show is Saturday, but last time I went, they weren't allowing people to take pictures. Still, it's always a beautiful event.

One of my dear friends who used to live here didn't like my photos of the Afternoon on the Green. She thinks I need recipes or explanations of the food culture in the VI to make it more appealing. She said the food photos didn't look appetizing.

She's got a point, and when I first got here, I was turned off with the aluminum foil protected food at the food sales and fairs. Even now, it's a little frustrating to not be able to see the food because of the aluminum foil. I once took a travel writer to a food sale at Ft Christian parking lot (fundraiser for Gov deJongh when he was first running), and she was turned off by the food displays so I took her to an air-conditioned restaurant with a tourist-friendly, Caribbean-inspired menu.

So how do we make our food fairs more tourist-friendly? I always ask to see the food before making the commitment to buy, but I think the food presentation is a bit intimidating/unappetizing to some tourists.

Your thoughts?