I was browsing the magazine rack at Barnes and Noble last week when I stumbled across a photo magazine that I hadn’t seen before. I’m not a fan of most photography magazines because they are more about equipment and technique than about images. One of my favorite magazines, which is now available by subscription only, is LensWork. There are a few others I like as well, but I only tend to read photo magazines where images are the centerpiece rather than equipment reviews, advertising, and various other crap that I could care less about.

This new magazine I came across is called Life Images: A Collection of Captured Moments & Inspired Journaling. The magazine is full of beautiful images that have been made by amateur and professional photographers, but the most intriguing part of it for me is that each photographer has written something to go along with the image. Some of the included journaling may be a descriptive account of the photo, a poem, a quote, or some other inspired words that bring additional life to the images. Each photo is usually tagged with the camera make and model, and some brief information about the post processing of the image. I’m not really sure why they bother to include that, but it’s there. There are lots of images in the magazine that are made with small point-n-shoot digital cameras.

The magazine is a little pricey, but I have enjoyed reading the material cover-to-cover several times over. It’s $14.99 for an issue (and it’s quarterly) and there is no break for a subscription at $60 per year. The magazine is very well constructed on heavy paper stock and it’s approximately 150 pages with a small amount of advertising all concentrated in the back of the magazine.

I’m looking forward to seeing how well this publication does, and possibly even submitting some of my own images in the future. At least check this out when you find it on a rack somewhere… I think you will be amazed at what you find inside…

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