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February 27, 2026 • Issue 103
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Is it Spring, yet(?), reader!
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The heat continues, here in Albuquerque, with temps around 70-degrees. Spring flowers are blooming! Where did I put those shorts?
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Pssst: Are you creating "Zines?" If you are, we will have a feature in the May/June issue by Emon Hassan, publisher of "emonome." More about him and his zine, on that link.
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To celebrate the issue, we will be accepting your zine for inclusion in the magazine. From all entries received, we will choose one to be featured. Will that be yours? I will send out details in my next Journal Notes, which should be out at the end of next week.
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Color It Red returns for the March/April 2026 issue. This very popular call-for-entry (CFE) is in its 13th appearance. We are bringing this series back because of consistent requests from many of our readers. Entries have already piled up!
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After the release of the March/April issue of Shadow & Light Magazine (3/15/2026), the annual subscription rate will be increased to $14.50. You only have a couple weeks left to subscribe at the lowest rate ever! Click here to subscribe for only $10/annual subscription. When you subscribe, your first subscribed issue will be the March/April issue and you will receive (FREE) the current issue, with the winner of the Grand Prize 2026 Color It Red image on the cover.
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In my newest venture, the starter, I include short pieces that are inspirational and full of positive vibes, with a nod toward photography and poetry. You can subscribe for free or opt for the paid versions, with which you will receive every issue. In the current issue, I chat about Creative Vision and there are a few other feature pieces that might fuel your creative process. In the section View here, I feature Shadow & Light Magazine alum, Beamie Young and her compelling "Birds" portfolio. Here is a link, if you are interested.
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Image: Michele Zousmer (2026 Color It Red-finalist)
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• Most of the items/articles featured in The Journal are included based on past responses to similar posts and are not offered as recommendations by me, but solely for your varied interests.
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• If you like this newsletter, please forward it to a friend of like mind!
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You can shoot anything. But maybe you shouldn’t
People much smarter than I have long noted that the creative ideas that make for great art often come from limitations, be they budgetary, technological, or otherwise. But as photography gear advances, some of the limitations we've previously had to work around have been lifted, raising the question: Is it time to start thinking about what limits we impose on our own photography?
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Jeff Bridges unboxes a retro film camera that hasn’t been made in more than 25 years
When Oscar-winning actor Jeff Bridges announced he was recreating the unusual panoramic film camera with a rotating lens, the Widelux, the photography community took note – and now Bridges has unboxed the first cameras off the production line. In the process, Bridges has shared the first images captured with the recreated film camera.
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All 130 Sony World Photography Awards Open Competition Winners
The Sony World Photography Awards is in its 19th year and is among the most prestigious photography contests in the industry. In this year’s competitions, including Open, Professional, Student, and Youth categories, photographers from over 200 countries and territories entered over 430,000 images.
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One of the 10 Open Category winners below will win the ultimate title, “Open Photographer of the Year,” at this year’s Sony World Photography Awards ceremony in London on April 16. Along with the title, the winning photographer will earn a $5,000 cash prize and a Sony Digital Imaging equipment
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Tip o' the fedora to Mike Noonan...
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Sally Mann explains why, aged 74, she has finally switched from 10x8in sheet film to using a digital camera
Sally Mann, the 74-year-old photographer renowned for her large-format, black-and-white images, has made a creative pivot that she describes as her "Wizard of Oz moment"; she's finally shooting digital, and in color.
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In a candid conversation on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, Mann revealed she's currently working on a new body of work in the Mississippi Delta using a digital camera paired with a 1940s lens that "doesn't handle light very well, so there's this little glow to everything".
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Tips For Photographers On Selling Your Prints (From a Buyer)
What do you think of immediately when you say that you’re going to sell a print? Is it just a piece of paper and nothing more? If that’s what you’re doing, then you’re probably selling prints wrong or the person that you’re buying them from isn’t doing it right at all. Because it isn’t done as much, printing is sort of a lost art–or at least it’s starting to become one. The art of bringing your photos into real life though isn’t something that loses its impact.
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Every time you see a photo of your manifest itself onto a piece of paper or other medium, it should be magical if done right. And that magical experience should be shared with others. But to do that, you have to treat others with the same respect that you would want. If you’ve got that, then you’ll need to figure out what makes someone really want to buy a print.
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