All about food and photography -Why I love sharing on Google Maps

Hi everyone!

My name is Nicole Venegas. I’m a chilean Food Photographer, and I live in Santiago.

What I love most to share by google maps are photographs (from my cell phone camera and sometimes with my Full Frame camera) and reviews of restaurants that have vegetarian, vegan, sugar or gluten alternatives. It is not always easy for people who have a restrictive diet to find options, and for me it is very important to be able to collaborate so that this information achieves visibility.

Food for me is very important, because the act of eating is something that recalls our childhood, family, our customs and is a time where we give love through a preparation. Being able to capture images of a preparation or an instance of gathering around food is one of my greatest inspirations. That’s why I’m always looking for places where they cook delicious, have good prices and also help people who can not eat all the ingredients normally.

Here I leave some of the images that I have made in the past

As a lover of good food, I also like to share information from places where you live an excellent experience, from an exquisite food, a good atmosphere and a warm customer service. I love discovering the stories behind the restaurants, who are the owners, what drove them to create their businesses and what their dreams are. One of the things that has helped me the most in discovering new places is that I am always walking through different neighborhoods and communes.

This is my favorite place to eat, is called Lestrois, a small bistro in Bellavista (Santiago de Chile)

As I have been discovering places for several years, I sometimes share tips and suggestions on how to improve your business from my experience. I always try to upload information from newly created restaurants.

Google maps has allowed me to develop in many aspects, I am eternally grateful for the opportunity to be a facilitator of the information.

For this reason and for many more I am enormously grateful, thanks to the entire Google team and their local guides for their time, work and dedication.

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Add more food photography picture please!

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Hi @Nikorinna and welcome to Connect!

Thank you for sharing this great post and for your kind words! We are happy to help all Local Guides to explore the world and find their most favourite places. :slight_smile:

You may be new to Connect or writing to share a post for your Connect Live application. If you’re applying to Connect Live be sure to share a link to a new Connect post responding to this year’s application prompt. You can find everything you need to know about writing a post for Connect Live 2019 here.

Since you are new on Connect, please take a moment to explore the various sections of the forum. You can find more information about them in the article What are the Connect topics?. If you want to share some information about yourself and get to know other Local Guides, feel free to visit our monthly topic Introduce Yourself - April 2019.

Meanwhile I will move your post to the Local Stories section where is the right place for the application and I’ll add a Food & Drink tag. Thank you for joining Local Guides Connect and have fun here!

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Thank you @HoangDang

I just uploaded some in the publication :slight_smile:

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Thank you very much @RadieN , I just applied yesterday, I hope I have done well. This community is something new for me, so I’m just getting to know it :

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You’re welcome @Nikorinna . That’s great, I wish you good luck! :slight_smile:

Just one more tip, you can tag Connect members when you are replying to them by writing @ before their name. That’s how they will receive a notification and will see your comment.

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I am in love with food photography

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