About the Images on This Site
If you’re a photographer, illustrator, or brand and you landed here because you spotted your work on Tastevella, you’re in the right place. This page explains where the images on this site come from, and it gives you a direct path to sort out anything that needs sorting. No forms to fill out, no legal hoops.
Where Tastevella Stands
Every image published on Tastevella is used in the belief that it complies with the fair use doctrine, sits in the public domain, or is covered by a license the site holds. Tastevella has no intention of infringing on anyone’s copyright or intellectual property, and never has.
That said, good intentions aren’t the same as being right every time. If something on this site is yours and shouldn’t be here, or should be credited differently, saying so is all it takes. The email is at the bottom of this page and in the middle of it, and a message either way gets the same quick answer.
Creators Made This Stuff
Food photography is work. Anyone who has spent a Saturday chasing daylight across a kitchen counter to get one usable shot of a bowl of soup knows exactly how much work.
Tastevella respects photographers, illustrators, food stylists, designers, and brands who create the visual material this kind of site depends on. That respect is the reason this page exists at all, rather than being buried in a footer nobody reads.
Where the Pictures Actually Come From
A recipe site publishes a lot of images. Here’s an honest breakdown of the categories they fall into.
Original photography. The bulk of what you see on Tastevella was shot in the site’s own kitchen, during the actual cook, including the in-progress steps. These images are owned outright by Tastevella. If you’d like to use one, email and ask. The answer is often yes with a credit and a link.
Paid stock photography. Some images are licensed from commercial libraries including Shutterstock, Adobe Stock, Depositphotos, iStock, Getty Images, and Canva Pro. These are used within the terms of whichever license was purchased, and license records are kept. Stock tends to show up for ingredient shots, seasonal graphics, and header images rather than for the finished dishes themselves.
Creative Commons images. Images licensed under Creative Commons terms, whether CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA, or similar, may be used from platforms such as Unsplash, Pexels, Pixabay, Burst, and Flickr Commons. Where a license requires attribution, that attribution is provided in the format the license asks for, with a link back to the creator or the source page wherever a working link exists.
Public domain material. Older photographs, botanical illustrations, vintage advertisements, and historical material sometimes appear in posts about the background of a dish or ingredient. These come from institutional archives including Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress, and Smithsonian Open Access, and are used because they’re free of copyright restrictions or were dedicated to the public by their creators.
Brand, product, and editorial images. When a post reviews a piece of equipment, discusses a product, or covers something newsworthy in food, images of that product or brand may appear in an editorial context. This use is commentary, criticism, or reporting, which is where fair use applies. Credit is given to the brand or the original photographer where that information is available.
Reader and collaborator submissions. Occasionally readers send in photos of something they cooked from a recipe here, and collaborators share images from a joint project. These are only published with permission from the person who took them, and they’re credited by name unless the sender asked to stay anonymous.
How Credit Gets Handled
Where a license or a use requires attribution, Tastevella provides it. That means naming the creator, noting the license type where the license calls for it, and linking to the original source when a link is available.
If a credit is wrong, incomplete, or points at the wrong person, that gets fixed as soon as it’s flagged. Corrections to attribution are treated as urgent, not as housekeeping to get to eventually.
When Something Slips Through
Across hundreds of posts and thousands of images, mistakes happen. A source link breaks and the trail back to the original creator disappears. An image circulates so widely that the person who made it is no longer attached to it anywhere findable. Something gets swapped during an edit and the credit doesn’t follow it.
None of that is deliberate, and none of it is a defense. It’s simply the honest reason a specific image might appear on Tastevella without the credit it deserves. When a case like that comes up, the fix is the priority, not an argument about how it happened.
Found Your Work Here? Pick Any of These
If an image on Tastevella belongs to you, you choose what happens next. Three options, and any of them is fine:
- Ask for credit. Tastevella adds your name, your preferred attribution wording, and a link to your site, portfolio, or social profile.
- Ask for a change. Maybe the image needs to be smaller, cropped differently, watermarked, or linked somewhere specific. Say what you want changed and it gets changed.
- Ask for removal. No explanation needed, no negotiation attempted. The image comes down.
There’s no wrong choice here, and asking for removal doesn’t require justifying yourself. Email images@tastevella.com with whichever option you’d prefer.
What to Send So This Moves Fast
None of this is required, but including it means the request gets handled the same day instead of turning into a back-and-forth:
- A link to the page on Tastevella where the image appears
- A link to the original, or something that shows the work is yours, such as your portfolio, the original upload, or the source page
- Your name and how you’d like to be contacted
- Which of the three options you want: credit, a change, or removal
What Happens Next
Receipt of your message gets confirmed, usually the same day. The claim is checked where checking is reasonable, which normally means comparing the image against the source you provided. The action you asked for gets carried out, and then you get a follow-up confirming it’s done, with a link so you can see for yourself.
Straightforward removals are usually handled within the same business day. Everything else gets a response within 48 hours at the outside.
You Don’t Need a Lawyer for This
No formal legal notice is needed before contacting Tastevella about an image. No takedown template, no attorney, no filing fees. A plain email describing the problem is enough, and it will be taken just as seriously as anything on letterhead.
Handling these requests directly is faster for you and better for this site. Escalating is always your right, but it should never be your only option, and here it isn’t.
Get in Touch
Any question about an image on Tastevella, whether it’s a rights concern, a request to reuse one of the site’s own photos, or just a question about where a particular picture came from, goes to the same place:
images@tastevella.com
Messages from creators get answered personally, and they get answered quickly.
Effective: August 2026
