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It happens too often that neophytes wishing to read and learn about photography end up by browsing through books and magazines that are just about cameras and equipment instead.

This is bad. This creates generations of amateurs thinking of buying a new lens rather than approaching a new theme.

I did that too. My first (Italian) magazines were Fotografare and Tutti Fotografi. Great magazines for sure, but just as with pain-killers, they shouldn’t be used regularly.

Now I know plenty of great magazines that are really about the work and the inspirations. Often useful magazines are simply publications with a good editor choosing good material. Other times, the magazines that I like focus on the creative use of photography (or design, more in general).

I had a look on the web and I collected some publications available for free on Issuu. I will be adding regularly new “findings” in this Issuu shelf.

Most of us, most of the times, thinking of photography, think of taking pictures rather than making.

It’s true for me, too.

At times, however, I have an idea in mind and I need to create it in order to shoot it. The following is an example. Besides the usual difficulties of light and exposure, I had to figure out what lens and what perspective would match the vision I had in mind. I confess it was not easy, and the end result, that however I like, is not like the image I had in mind.

On iStock the English version is available too.

It doesn’t matter what meterologists will say: the snow will come to London, abundant. I have recently sold this stock:

If people buy my snow stock, snow will come. Stock doe not lie, buyers know (better than metereologists).