Landscape Photography Magazine

Grand Tetons, Spring

First of all, there are not many Photography Magazines the I subscribe to these days. There are a couple in which I think they do a good job serving the profession of photography unlike some of the others who take advantage by having competitions in which the magazine gains the copyrights of the submitted image and use for their advertisements, etc with no benefit to the photographer other than, perhaps their name attached. The magazines I subscribe to now are Landscape Photography Magazine and Peter Eastway’s Better Photography Magazine. Peter’s magazine is issued quarterly and it is check full of good articles. Landscape Photography Magazine is (LPM) truly devoted to landscape photography and I would say it is quite dependent on their subscribers.

The reason I bring this up is because I have been having fun and challenging myself and LPM has monthly photo contests and various topics. My goal is to win one of the contests. A couple of times I have come close and earlier I received an honorable mention for the “soap tree yucca” image below. Last month’s contest was for a high key image and I submitted one of my favorite images from our winter visit to Vermont, also below. This is of an old sugar shack at the tail end of a good Vermont snow storm with the sun just starting to peak through. I don’t think I won with this image but they told me it will get published in an upcoming publication.

Soap Tree Yucca

Vermont Sugar Shack in snow

This month it is “first light”, images taken around sunrise and: a) there is color in the sky or b) there is first light on the subject.. The above image was one of my submissions. I normally only do one but a couple of times I have submitted another. It’s an interesting process and I repeatedly find out that images I tend to like are not necessarily at the top of others list. What I mean by this, is in my earlier post, I mentioned how I posted several of my Southern Utah images on my Flickr account. It surprises me the ones I get compliments on versus the ones I think are really good. Anyway, the above image is now on LPM’s web site but there is an excellent image of Shiprock in New Mexico which must have been taken from the air as hit has the ridge in the foreground that leads of to the rock. Quite an excellent image.