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December 16, 2025 • Issue 101
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The best wishes for you and yours for this Holiday Season. I trust you have planned for a restful and joyous season!
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Color It Red will return 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 are already piling up! Click here for additional information and to enter.
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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. In the current issue, I chat about motivation and there are a few other pieces that might fuel your creative process. In the section View here, I feature Beth Moon and her and her "Island of the Dragon's Blood" portfolio. Here is a link, if you are interested.
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For the January/February 2026 issue of Shadow & Light Magazine the Featured Showcase will highlight the work of the highly-acclaimed fashion and beauty imagery of Neal Barr. Click here to subscribe for only $10/annual subscription. When you subscribe, your first subscribed issue will be the January/February issue and you will receive (FREE) the current issue, with an Allen Bourne image on the cover.
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Bonus: The writer for the Neal Barr piece, Douglas Dubler, has just released a video highlighting the new Zeiss ML lenses he used to produce the feature about them in the last issue of Shadow & Light Magazine. Click here to view!
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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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A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera
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In 1975, a young engineer in the company that made Kodak film took the first picture on a handheld digital camera. Photography would never be the same again.
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When Steve Sasson started working at Eastman Kodak, the American photographic film manufacturer was a vibrant symbol of American industrial ingenuity.
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Photographer’s Creative Use of Exposure Makes for Dreamy Images
Photographer Vitor Schietti’s images feel less like frozen instants and more like memories caught mid-drift. Hovering between observation and imagination, his images stretch time, bend light, and invite viewers into moments that feel both familiar and otherworldly.
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24 Photography Blogs To Bookmark Right Now
Looking to refresh your photo blog bookmark folder ASAP? We’ve rounded up our very favorite photography blogs to help you learn some cool new tips and tricks.
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Checking out other photography blogs is a great way to get ideas for your work, pushing you to create amazing new content, which you can use to improve your photography portfolioand land you more clients and gigs. (You may even be inspired to start a photoblog of your own!)
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Wildlife Photography: Is the Art Already in Nature?
Shutterbugs are reaching back into the past 20 years or more to add a vintage “Y2K aesthetic” to their work. The MySpace look is strong with a lot of photographers shooting with authentic early-2000s “digicams,” aiming their cameras—flashes a-blazing—at their friends and capturing washed-out, low-resolution, grainy photos that look a whole lot like 2003.
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10 More Crazy Photography Facts You (Probably) Didn't Know
Think you know everything about photography? From the hidden math behind your files to bizarre legal battles over monkey selfies, these facts reveal the fascinating technical quirks and strange history that most photographers never learn.
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1. Your F-Stop Is a "Lie" and T-Stops Are the Truth
2. A Monkey Cannot Legally Hold a Copyright
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