Dear Readers:
This is my first letter to you as Editor-in-Chief of this magazine and I am especially appreciative and honored to lead Fuel Your Photography after our previous Editor-in-Chief, Patrick Onofre. Patrick has done an admirable job of enhancing the quality of material for our readership and I intend to do the same.
As you know, I’m especially proud of our writers and contributors whose dedicated efforts produce articles 5 days a week for you to enjoy and gain knowledge from. Our multi-talented writing team is geographically diverse and we let that shine through in their articles. Our team comes from regions such as: North America, Europe, Asia, Central America, the Middle East and the Caribbean. Moreover, in addtion to the team being creditable photographers and writers, we have quite a few Professional Photographers in our ranks, however, just like you, many of us have other careers, we have on our team, students, Medical Doctors, IT professionals, captains of industry, aviation professionals, Musicians, Creative Directors and many other professions. Regardless of our varied backgrounds one common thread brings us all together, photography!
Naturally, just as diverse is our readership. If I wasn’t aware of this diversity prior, to becoming Editor, reading reports that show the countries our readers originate from has reinforced my belief that photography is deeply imbued in every corner of the planet. I am also especially proud and thankful for our readership, they/you are quite possibly the most faithful reader(s) in existence, somehow they continually manage to fit into their busy schedules, between their wake-up routine and bedtime, time to read FYP!
In the continuing quest for excellence we have reintroduced our Indie Spotlight series, our Featured Photographer Interview series all in the effort to expand your (and our) knowledge and inspiration and we shall continue to bring you new and exciting articles.
During this month you’ll see exciting articles by new team members covering such topics as: high contrast portraiture, upping your game, do’s and don’ts of food photography, pressing on against the naysayers, working with natural winter light, Beauty shots, and many awesome independent photographers by our Indie Spotlight Team.
Not to be left out of bringing you excellent and inspiring articles are our stalwarts who bring you such goodies as: a trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, posing people naturally, working within your ability, a review of The Photographer’s Ephemeris among many others.
With all this goodness, I know you are asking yourself “what can they possibly do to improve?” Well here are some exciting openings and planned columns at FYP that you can look forward to:
- A Photography Coach who you can ask questions and get guidance to overcome any challenge you may have, we are currently fielding candidates for this position, if you think you have what it takes and want to apply, let me know by email editor@fuelyourphotography.com.
- Freebies, we are going to reinvigorate a column to cover the great free resources available to you on the Internet, not only will our writer scour the net to bring you all this greatness but we’ll also be taking and passing on suggestions from other readers that they want to share.
- We are also fielding candidates to write a mobile space column to covering all the great happenings in the mobile phoneography arena, whether it is Android, iOS, Blackberry, we’ll let you know what’s up, provide you with ideas and keep you on the cutting edge. If you have a knack for writing and use your mobile device as camera much more than you do a phone drop me a note editor@fuelyourphotography.com.
- FYP is also looking for 2 Assistant Editors to contribute to the production of the magazine, if you think slamming your fingers in a car’s door is fun email me for details on how you can help lead one of the most dynamic teams of photography writers on the web editor@fuelyourphotography.com.
Join me on what promises to be a fantastic journey as our team continues to uplift FYP. We at FYP believe that today’s readers will be tomorrows luminary photographers and we are passionately interested in sharing the secrets of how photography works.
I look forward to hearing from many of you in my inbox and I know you can “cut the mustardâ€. Consider joining the FYP family for any of the above positions where you feel you are a fit.
I trust you’ll enjoy this month and all the upcoming months of FYP, as I know you have been in the past, we appreciate when you share links to our articles and also when you encourage your friends to read FYP.
Take care!
– Jeremy
Editor-in-Chief
