This just came out from Lenswork magazine today, a solo publication that includes 70+ photos from my portfolio of images featuring shadows. It looks great and I am very pleased with it, not to mention it is the 10th time since 2007 that one of my portfolios has been featured in LensWork. And, the Fashion Queen is very happy to have her shadow featured on the cover!
Congratulations!
It’s too bad that singing “On the cover of the Lenswork mag’” just doesn’t sound quite as good as Dr Hook’s song. But, I can imagine singing it around the house if I were on the cover of Lenswork. 😊
Thanks Carol. Poor lyric potential for this event aside, I think the Fashion Queen is about as happy about this as I am.
That is awesome, Larry! Congratulations!
Thanks so much Kathy!
Congratulations! Well deserved. A question, do submissions have requirements about specific lens types to be used?
Thanks Steve. (I assume that question about the lens was just a comment on the magazine title and doesn’t require a response.)
Congratulations, Larry! That is quite impressive. I was thinking that was a cowboy on the cover but even better that it’s Connie. You should be very proud.
Thanks Judy!
So great! You deserve this!
Thank you Molly!
Sorry Larry, I didn’t poise the question very well. You talk about using your “real” camera (which I assume is digital) vs. a cellphone camera and wondered if Lensworks would accept a cellphone photo, an old Hasslebad large format, or camera obscura combined with an ilfochrome type process?
Oh, o.k. I get it. My use of the term “real” was meant to be facetious. (Perhaps smiley faces have an important role in establishing the intended use of subtle humor.)
Lenswork just judges the photo submission it receives based on what they see, not on what kind of camera was used–an analogy to the argument that if a painting is “good” by whatever criteria one chooses to evaluate the final product, why would you bother asking what kind of brush the artist used. In fact Lenswork does not require you to reveal the type of equipment used, although in the past they would ask that just for information purposes for the reader in the introduction to portfolios. Some photography publications think it important to caption every photo with the f-stop and shutter speed used when the photo was take. I never understood the value of that.
The limitations or imperfections resulting from the use of various lesser quality cameras are in some situations accepted or even desired as unique features of an image that add to it’s value. Hence the occurrence of events such as the Krappy Kamera Competition.
In the early digital days there was quite a bit of what some might call snootiness amongst publishers and gallery folks that lead to them not even considering anything that was either taken with a digital camera or printed digitally rather than in a darkroom. But as time went by and more and more serious photographers were switching to digital, they changed their minds. It was either that or get left behind in terms of attention and even sales. Now silver based photography is a niche method classed under “alternate processes” with things like egg albumem, daguerreotype, glass negatives, etc.) I know one successful old-timer photographer (i.e. even older than me) in California who is sticking with silver-based photographer till the end. But that’s to be expected from someone who used to pal around with Ed Weston’s son Brett and others from those early days of photography on the West Coast. His name is Merg Ross if you’re interested in looking up his work. He’s one of my favorite photographers and I was thrilled when one of my Lenswork appearances was in the same issue as his.
Now we are seeing the beginnings of another quandary in the art world about what to do about AI creeping into photography as well as other mediums. It will be interesting to see how that shakes out. I’m cautious in my thinking about AI, not trying to come down hard either way on it’s appropriate use. With photography, there is no doubt that the introduction of digital methods made it easier for just about anyone who put out a bit of effort to produce a technically sound image. But what you see now is a lot of uninteresting, boring, non original, even ugly, yet technically sound crap out there with no artistically redeeming qualities. A creative mind is still required to produce good results. We are already seeing much the same kind of thing happen as a result of AI–at least until AI gets to the point where it can mimic human creativity. At that point all bets are off I suppose.
I have a t-shirt that says “ I Should Have Been a Cowboy”. Now I want one that’s says “I Should Have Been a Fashion Queen” ! I love this photo and all those with the FQ as the main subject especially! Congratulations Larry and Connie!!!
Thanks Jodi, good to hear from you. We’ll have to see about that t-shirt idea. Maybe create a whole line of t-shirts with the various FQ images on them. 🙂