Seems like a lot of people scour Flickr for food pictures. I don’t consider myself a prolific photographer, but I’ve been asked for rights to use my pictures a couples times by publications: once from seattlemet.com for the RimRock Cafe (a fancy restaurant in Whistler), and another for Schmap’s Guide to Paris for Chez Clement (they recently told me they included my pictures in their iPhone version). Both times, they found my pictures months after I had actually visited.
Based on views, comments, and the like, the key to getting more eyeballs seems to be to add descriptions and tags to one’s flickr photos. That would certainly coincide with what I’ve seen on many popular pictures (lots of tags, many synonyms), and it makes sense – how else would people find the pictures if not through search terms?
