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The Sunday Morning Photographer
by Mike Johnston
This week we're introducing a new feature on photo.net, a weekly opinion column about
all things photographic called The Sunday Morning Photographer (SMP). I've been
writing the column for about a year now. So far, it's appeared mainly on two digital
photography sites.
However, since many of the columns deal with traditional photography, darkroom craft,
film cameras, and topics (like this week's) that might be of interest to all kinds of
photographers, I've always hoped that a site that's more oriented toward traditional
photography would publish the column as well. So I was very pleased when the folks at
photo.net invited me to contribute.
From week to week the topics are wide-ranging and cover pretty much every
photography-related subject I know anything about. I write the column because I love
photography and enjoy writing about it. It's presented to you in hopes that it will
provide you with some enjoyable or at least thought-provoking reading about our pastime.
If you enjoy the column, you might also enjoy my white-paper quarterly photo newsletter, The 37th Frame.
To go to this week's column, simply click on the title below. As each new column is
added, each weekend, they'll appear on this page as well. You'll be able to access all the
current and past columns published by photo.net from here. I hope you enjoy it!
Writer and photographer Mike Johnston is the publisher of The 37th Frame,
an ink-on-paper quarterly for hard-core photography enthusiasts and imaging professionals.
It goes out to a "who's who" of famous photographers, pros, museum curators,
photo magazine editors, critics, textbook authors, hobbyists, and photography instructors
and professors in sixteen different countries. The 37th Frame is available to
anyone who wants to subscribe.
A 1985 BFA graduate of the Photography program at the Corcoran College of Art and
Design in Washington, D.C., Mike Johnston has been a photography teacher, freelance
photographer, and custom exhibition printer. He was East Coast Editor of Camera &
Darkroom magazine from 1988 to 1994 and Editor-in-Chief of PHOTO Techniques
magazine from 1994-2000, where his editorial column "The 37th Frame" was a
popular feature and where he presented, among other things, a set of three articles on
"bokeh" by John Kennerdell, Oren Grad, and Harold Merklinger that were
subsequently widely discussed among photographers.
His critical and technical writings have appeared in various publications and
newsletters such as The Washington Review and D-Max. A number of his
articles written under the pseudonym "L. T. Gray" (el Tigre) appeared in the
English magazine Darkroom User. He currently writes a regular monthly column for
the English magazine Black & White Photography. A single parent with one
young son, he lives in Wisconsin. Johnston's next book, The Empirical Photographer:
Essays and Photographs 1980-2000 is currently in search of a publisher.
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