2 years ago today, I started Taylor Takes a Taste! Wow the last 2 years have flown by! Here is a recap from year one, and now for a recap of year 2.
Year 1 was amazing, I thought it wasn’t possible, but year 2 was even better! Here are some of my favorite posts from the last 12 months.
January
In January, this double chocolate pie , experiments with beer bread, and my first Food Blog Conference! 
In February, I celebrated a lot of National Food Days, gave my first food photography tutorial, and was ready for spring! 
In March, I made funnel cakes, deep fried cookie dough, and had a little March Madness tournament of my own.
In April, I continued to celebrate National Food Days, went to a soft shell crab festival and shot and shot a book promo !
In May, I went Strawberry picking with the Charlotte Food Bloggers, had a crawfish boil, and checked out the Charlotte Food Truck scene.
June brought a month filled with cream pies, food photography tutorials, and National Food Day celebrations!
In July, I celebrated the 4th, taught my first food photography class, and did more food photography tutorials!
In August, I counted down towards tailgating season and celebrated a few more national food days.
September, October, November, and December, brought with it 15 weeks of traveling, tailgating, and 2 food photography workshops.
For this season’s tailgating tour, I moved the tailgating posts to a new site Taylor Tailgates, so if you haven’t seen them all please check it out. In the fall, I traveled to another 15 games, putting my total at 29 tailgates in the last two seasons.What I am doing with all this tailgating content is something that I can’t quite reveal yet. Hopefully in the next week, I will be able to tell you about a project that I spent all of 2011 working on and will spend a good part of 2012 working on as well.
This year has been amazing! I have eaten a lot, traveled a lot, and taken thousands of great pictures. In the Spring of 2011, Julie and I started the Charlotte Food Bloggers group. We are working on redoing our website now, and have a whole lot planned for 2012! If you live in Charlotte and have a food blog, of are interested in recipe writing, food photography, WordPress, and talking about/eating great food we would love to have you join us! We have a whole lot of great things planned for 2012, so I will be sure to share with you what we are up to.
So what should you expect in 2012? Right now, I am lining up several food photography workshops that will take place late spring/early summer, if you want me to come to your city send me an email! I would love to see if we can work something out.
At the end of this month, I will be going to Food Blog South in Birmingham, AL. I had a blast last year, so I am very excited to see old friends and meet new ones! Let me know if you will be there, I would love to meet you!
As far as other posts you will see, I have a few more food photography tutorials, I will be finishing the largest project I have ever undertaken ( will be revealed soon), and will encounter a whole lot of other things that I haven’t even imagined yet!
2011 was an even better year than 2010! I can’t wait to see what 2012 holds!
Congrats on 2 years Taylor and on all of your success! You deserve it! I love your blog and your photos are always so great! I also love that you share photography tips with the rest of us. Hope you have many more successful years ahead!
Thank you Melissa! I appreciate you following!
Happy 2nd blogiversary!!!
Thanks Ann! Looking forward to year 3!
Roger says
Congratulations on 2 years, and thank you for continuing to do what you do .. I’ve been following your blog for the better part of the 2 years and really enjoy it, being a “food person” and a photographer, your work is inspiring!
Wow, what a great two years! I think you could definitely say you’ve had some big highlights in the past year. I’m of course speaking of that delicious peaches and cream pie.
This is one of the best recaps I’ve seen! A good look back at your 2nd year. Congrats!
Thanks Katie! glad you liked the recap
Congratulations! It’s always a treat to read your posts and the lovely images.
How amazing is it that you share your techniques with everyone ~ definitely appreciated!
Maybe a workshop in the west coast in the near future (Los Angeles)?
Best to you for 2012!
Thanks Tru! so glad you have found the information helpful! I will keep an LA workshop in mind
Congratulations! I love your blog!!!!!
Thanks Sonia!
Happy Birthday Taylor! You are the most skilled and brilliant two-year-old I’ve, ever, known! Thanks for letting me follow you! – Jasper
Thanks Jasper! I’m looking forward to year 3!
Happy anniversary! I love reading and looking at your photos! And I try to learn something from your tips all the time too!
Thanks Marci!
Congratulations…you do beautiful work and I’ve enjoyed following you.
Thanks Joan! So glad that you have enjoyed the blog!
Mac Mackie says
Congrats mon frère. Couldn’t be happier for you. I expect this won’t be the only good news to announce this year…
I’ve been following along with you for the past year. I adore your blog. You’re extremely talented and I always love finding out what projects you are working on. Thanks for all the photography tips. Would love to attend a food styling/photography class if you come to TX.
I just found your blog today and I wanted to tell you that I love it! Thank you so much for taking the time to make photography tutorials, I am going to try out the techniques for my own baking blog.
Also, happy two year bloggiversary! I’m looking forward to your posts for the next year!