My flowers and the Landscape Photography Magazine
While it is interesting to see one’s work published on the web, nothing beats having your photos published in a magazine, even if that magazine only exists in digital format. So I am happy to see my photographs of flowers featured in June’s edition of Landscape Photography Magazine.
“No Macro Lens Needed” is the title of the article published in the June 2017 edition of Landscape Photography Magazine, a pdf format publication that I subscribe to, but for which I never had, until recently, sent any material. The first story I decided to send, last April, was immediately accepted and set to be published in June’s edition.
With a background in printed magazines, as I started as a journalist and photographer long before there was this thing called Web, it’s only natural that I feel comfortable with the idea of a magazine like experience, even if through a digital format like pdf, which is the method used for the distribution of Landscape Photography Magazine. Until 2008 I published printed magazines, having created the first digital photography magazine in Portugal, where I live, a dream which folded because print publications went through a hard time after 2000.
Although I stopped being an editor and publisher of printed publications — at a time we had multiple magazines, from video and photography to video games and aviation –, besides stopping writing, in 2009, for any publications in Portugal, my passion for the written word, for the printing industry — even in its new support, digital — continued. It explains why I’ve gone through different experiences, from eBooks, to a “magazine” created using Lightroom, and more recently to photo essays using InDesign, published online or distributed directly to participants on my photo tours.
Having work published in different online spaces, from Pixiq, which years ago seemed like a major photography destination for readers, but then folded, to Photo Tuts, is a great way to be seen, but that has not stopped me from creating my own spaces, both in Portuguese and English, which I try to keep updated. The online experience is always fantastic, and in recent years I’ve published work at Manfrotto School of Xcellence, where I try to write about some “less common” photographic options, along with more regular texts. Being the News Editor at Pro Video Coalition keeps me busy the rest of the time…
Online represents, no doubt, the core of my activity these days, but experiences like the one felt with this issue of Landscape Photography Magazine are always welcome. It is as if they represent a bridge to the past, when I would get all excited to see work I had been preparing for a while published in a monthly or weekly magazine, or newspaper. Only then it was every month, sometimes with different articles published simultaneously in different publications.
The article in Landscape Photography Magazine is centered on my flower photography, an experience I share with people through specific workshops or during a photo tour, if we’ve conditions to explore the subject. The article, which is one of the featured articles in the June issue, comes under a general theme “Exploring the world of simplicity and minimalism, which fits well with my photographs. If the theme interests you, get the magazine, which can be acquired online, and immediately downloaded. Better, subscribe, and you’ll get a monthly edition at a reduced price, opening you a new window into the world of landscape photography.
I decided to subscribe to Landscape Photography Magazine because I’ve all my issues in a folder in my computer, and a backup of them — and do not need to have any special reader or connection to the web to read my magazines. I like to know that I’ve access to them anytime I want, as they are in pdf format. I also subscribe to Wild Planet Magazine — I started that one on the first ever issue, when it came out — which is from the same company and is offered the same way. I used to subscribe to the digital version of Outdoor Photographer, a publication that I bought in print format for many years, but I don’t like the feeling I get that I never own the magazines, so I stopped. LPM and WPM are different. And this month one of them is very different for me. It’s something I want to explore further, because the feeling is exciting.
