Image Credits

Every photo on The Weeknight Plate exists to make a recipe easier to follow — showing you what a golden crust should look like, how thick a sauce needs to be, or how a bowl should be layered before it hits the table. This page explains where our images come from, how we credit outside work, and what to do if you believe one of your photos has been used without proper permission.

Original Photography

The large majority of images on this site are taken in our own kitchens for the recipes we publish, including step-by-step process shots and finished-dish photography for posts like our crock pot chicken pot pie, chili mac, and slow cooker honey garlic chicken. These photos are our property or the property of contributing home cooks who work with us directly, and they may not be copied, downloaded, or republished on another site or social account without written permission. If you would like to feature one of our photos in an article, roundup, or newsletter, please reach out through our Contact page before using it.

Licensed and Stock Images

On occasion, particularly for seasonal or lifestyle content that doesn't require a specific recipe result, we supplement original photography with images purchased or licensed from stock photography platforms. These images are used under the terms of their respective licenses, which typically permit commercial editorial use on a website like ours. We do not claim ownership of these licensed stock images beyond the usage rights we've purchased, and we make reasonable efforts to avoid using stock photos in a way that misrepresents a recipe's actual result.

Third-Party Attribution

When we reference, embed, or feature an image created by another blogger, brand, or content creator — for example in a roundup post or a collaboration feature — we aim to credit that source clearly, either with a caption naming the creator or a direct link back to their original post or profile. If you are a creator and notice that your image appears on our site without the credit you'd expect, this is almost always an oversight rather than an intentional omission, and we're glad to fix it quickly once we know about it. More on how we work with outside creators and partners can be found on our Collaboration page.

Pinterest and Social Sharing Images

Many of our recipe posts include a vertically formatted image designed specifically for Pinterest. These images are created by us using our own photography, but because Pinterest is a platform built around resharing, we want to be transparent about how that pinning ecosystem works and what it means for our content once it leaves our site. Details on this are covered separately in our Pinterest Disclaimer.

Requesting Credit, Correction, or Removal

We take image ownership seriously, both in protecting our own original photography and in respecting the rights of other creators. If you believe:

• An image belonging to you appears on The Weeknight Plate without proper credit or permission,
• A credit line or link attached to your image is incorrect or missing, or
• You'd like an image removed for any legitimate ownership reason,

please contact us directly at [email protected] with a description of the image in question, its location on our site (a URL is ideal), and proof or a reasonable explanation of your ownership. We respond to these requests promptly and, where the claim is valid, we will add proper credit, correct an existing link, or remove the image entirely — whichever resolution is appropriate.

Using Our Images

If you'd like to share a photo from The Weeknight Plate on your own blog, social account, or newsletter, we generally welcome this as long as you use a single low-resolution image, credit us by name, and link directly back to the original recipe post rather than to our homepage or a cropped/edited version of the image. Full recipe text, instructions, or a full set of step-by-step photos may not be copied and republished elsewhere. These reuse boundaries exist to protect the time and cost that goes into producing original content, and they're outlined in more detail in our Terms of Use.

Why This Matters

Good food photography takes real effort — recipe testing, ingredient sourcing, prop styling, and multiple rounds of shooting before a dish looks the way it does on the page. Being upfront about where our images come from, and equally upfront about respecting the work of other creators, is part of running this site honestly. You can read more about how we approach transparency generally in our Editorial Policy and our Disclaimer, both of which touch on how content and images are presented across the site.

Questions About a Specific Image

If you're unsure whether a particular photo on the site is original, licensed, or sourced from a third party, we're happy to clarify. Send us the post title or a link to the page, along with a short note about what you'd like to know, to [email protected], and we'll get back to you with the details. You can also learn more about who's behind the site and how we produce our recipes on our About Us page.