ku # 1136 ~ out of sight / out of mind
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 04:13PM 
Whiteface from Monument Falls ~ Wilmington, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenIn response to my whining in the the best ever, most perfect holiday gift - what I want for Xmas entry, Anil Rao contacted me with a holiday gift exchange offer. Anil has created a new folio, Fractured, which he has graciously offered in exchange for some of my work (yet to be determined). I am looking forward to viewing his new folio and I certain that it will be the equal of his Rocks and Stones folio which I already possess.
In his Email, Anil mentioned that his Fractured folio is featured in LensWork Extended #97 (online - membership only) along with an interview with Brooks Jensen. As coincidence would have it, recently, I have been thinking about how, with the passing of Borders bookstore, I have not purchased any photo periodicals in the past 5-6 months - Borders is was the only bookstore within 150 miles - without taking a ferry ride or leaving the country - with a half-decent selection of photo periodicals.
Anil's mention of LensWork, a periodical I would regularly purchase at Borders, reminded me that I should give some thought to subscribing to a number of such magazines. Unfortunately, that prospect creates a few problems for me: 1) I don't necessarily want each and every issue of a given magazine - some issues are not always to my liking, content wise, and being able to browse through them at a newsstand was my method of pick-and-choose, and 2) magazines, via the mail, often show up bruised or mangled and, once again, being able to pick through them at a newsstand for the best condition examples was a plus.
That said, at this time, I don't have an alternative. It's subscriptions or nothing given the fact that I am not about to travel 150 miles every month for the express purpose of buying magazines. So now it would seem that I have another problem - 3) trying to determine which photo magazines are worth subscribing to.
Any suggestions?
Reader Comments (4)
Over the years I have purchased about every photography magazine that's available in the US. I only subscribe to 2 - Lenswork and Silvershotz. Of those I think Silvershotz is the best. It has more diversity that Lenswork, a much wider variety of photography and articles on many different topics. Plus it is very high quality. It is published in Australia.
I'm still waiting for my "grand prize".
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Not to split hairs, but there is a new very nice Barnes & Noble on Wolf Road in Albany (135 miles) and a smaller Barnes and Noble in Saratoga Springs (107 miles).
Still traveling over a hundred miles for a magazine is really crazy!
Maybe you've already thought of this, Mark, but you can get online versions of Lenswork and Lenswork Extended at their website. Or,for $59 a year, you can supposedly download all kinds of things, including the year's issues of Lenswork. And you can get them specifically for the iPad. I haven't done it yet, but I'm seriously thinking about it.
Heck, you can't get Lenswork at Borders or B and N or any other actual "store". It's either a subscription or the online thing.