I know I just posted about JPG Magazine, but there’s some new news – one of my shots has been included in the Outtakes PDF for the Fave Hangouts theme.
As they put it:
How hard is it to pick under 20 photos from over 3,000 submitted to a theme? Nearly impossible. Every issue we each see some of our favorites get cut, and it kills us. We’re always looking for new ways to recognize the amazingly talented photographers that don’t get published.
So for every theme that’s published in the print magazine, they do up an online-only collection of the photos that almost made it.
And for the Fave Hangouts theme, it was this shot from my favourite cafe in Santa Fe – Ecco on Marcy Street – that was included.
Here’s the full PDF (I’m in some great company).
I had an article (and accompanying photos) published in an earlier issue, which was great. But in some ways it’s even more gratifying that one of my photos on its own almost made it.
I used to be a journalist, and have had a book published, so I’m kind of used to seeing my words in print – that’s my background and training.
But I’m much more reticent about the quality of my photography, so when I get some recognition for that, I’m very happy.
What’s interesting about the choice of the image by the JPG editors is that while it had a lot of views – 444 – it didn’t have that many Yeah votes (27). That suggests to me that it’s not just a popularity contest: the editors pick what they like. Which is what they should do, of course.