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Just Jess 2d ago

Steven Lawson Photography

Volume 1 of the #MonochromeMarch e-zine is now available.
Click on the link and it should immediately download (thanks to @benbradley for the Dropbox tip!)
It will be available until Friday April 10, when a link for Volume 2 will be posted. Volume 3 will be available on Friday April 17.
Thank you for making the event such a success, your enthusiasm and images were inspiring.
Please see the comments for a few notes on the curation process.
Steven
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kj6dh3qgi0yzjvhmjwdpx/Monochrome-March-Volume-1.pdf?rlkey=ehvrjddfyb93j7u6g3vam4lql&st=19bbqqws&dl=1

Steven Lawson Photography 3d ago

Notes on the curation of the #MonochromeMarch zine images:
There are around 150 of MY favourites but I'm not Ansel Adams, I'm just an ordinary bloke, so please don't be offended if your work isn't used.
I chose images for many reasons - subject, composition, creativity, tone, light, shadow, contrast, quirkiness, etc.
The zines are free, all permissions have been granted and if you want to print them, go ahead, but please don't sell them.
We'll do it again in 2027, with a few minor admin tweaks.

How many #monochromemarch were there overall? @StevenLawsonPhotography Maybe too big a figure to count 😄

Steven Lawson Photography 1d ago

@scozmos Do you mean how many images? I'm not certain but I have selected roughly 150 for the three volumes of the zine and there were at least as many again.

Jim Graves 1d ago

@StevenLawsonPhotography @scozmos It was certainly very well supported by the community here.

Yes @Jim_Graves I saw plenty of tags @StevenLawsonPhotography

🍉 wimi 3d ago

@StevenLawsonPhotography Fantastic collection! Thank you again for your idea and tremendous effort. ☺️

@StevenLawsonPhotography Thank you once again, and what an exciting selection! I’m already looking forward to next year!

olafgroetz 3d ago

@StevenLawsonPhotography this looks great! I love the way you arranged the pictures in nice matching pairs, so they can produce extra feelings.

@StevenLawsonPhotography You Rock! Thank you!

But on my iPhone I can’t get the download unless I sign up or give my email for a link by email later. Is that as you thought? I haven’t been able to select download.

@cobalt123 @StevenLawsonPhotography You have to open it in Safari, then you have a tiny arrow at the bottom left to download.
When I just click the link it takes me to another browser (from Mastodon?) and that doesn’t work, but there is the Safari logo that you can click on.

@cobalt123 @StevenLawsonPhotography

@Steinwaelzer yay thank you!!!!

@StevenLawsonPhotography Thank you, that looks phantastic! So many wonderful pictures, a great collection!

Mike Hindle 2d ago

@StevenLawsonPhotography What an incredible collection of images 🖤 Amazing work here, Steven, you've got a good eye for curation.

And of course, thanks for including one of mine 🤩🙏🏻

Steven Lawson Photography 2d ago

@mikehindleuk Wait until you see Vol. 2 😉

Mike Hindle 2d ago

@StevenLawsonPhotography Can't wait 🤩🙌🏻

SallyABL 2d ago

@StevenLawsonPhotography

Wow. Steven! 💪
What a triumphant effort to bring folk together for the #MonochtomeMarch challenge and then to showcase a snapshot of the amazing contributions in such a fabulous way. I love the e-zine and am enjoying checking out the images that caught your eye!

🙏 For the setting the challenge, for shepharding us to maintain momentum throughout March, and for collating the e-zine. #Legend

🌻

What a great selection, really shows what a range of excellent images got submitted. Glad to hear that it's coming back next year. 😁

@StevenLawsonPhotography awesome! Well done and also well done every one who contributed photos!

Scuba_Zeus 2d ago

@StevenLawsonPhotography @benbradley wondeful! Thank you very much. I look forward to seeing the other two volumes

Bob Tregilus 2d ago

@StevenLawsonPhotography Super collection of monochrome images, Steven! Very nice zine! I look forward to volumes 2 & 3!

Love it @StevenLawsonPhotography and thank you for the event @benbradley 👍

@StevenLawsonPhotography

Looks great Steve! Terrifically executed. Thanks again for providing the impetus!

Wow! Thank you for assembling these beautiful works by the Fediverse’s own collection of decentralized Federated monochrome aficionados!

Steven Lawson Photography 2d ago

@NYSloth I like that description but it doesn’t quite roll off the tongue! 😂

deerbard 2d ago

@StevenLawsonPhotography @benbradley

What a great collection!
I completely overlooked the hashtag and whole event ^^ Next year maybe. Would be also great for #bwPhotoCollective game as it lost it’s momentum in recent months.

deerbard 2d ago

@StevenLawsonPhotography
Also many of these I recognize from my feed :)

Cognissart 2d ago

@StevenLawsonPhotography @benbradley 👏👏 brilliant! Thank you for organising this - and making decisions 🤣 It's been great just to follow but this beautifully curated collection is 🧁

On a Third Photography 2d ago

@StevenLawsonPhotography fantastically put together Steven, thank you for all your efforts

gusseting 2d ago

@StevenLawsonPhotography Thanks for the idea and your effort!
How can it be I missed so many of theses pictures in my timeline? Need to follow more folks

Steven Lawson Photography 2d ago

@mamue The best way to keep up to date is to follow the #MonochromeMarch hashtag, or any hashtag for that matter, then those posts will automatically appear in your daily timeline.

@StevenLawsonPhotography
Sure. Maybe I got an overdose of black and white and unfollowed the tag 🤔 I can't remember... 😅

Chris Koester 2d ago

@StevenLawsonPhotography @benbradley Great, thanks! 👍

@byAndreas🤟😌✨2d ago

@StevenLawsonPhotography @benbradley Very nice photo zine :) I loaded your zine into a free comic book reader on my iphone and it looks really nice. Maybe look into uploading it to https://archive.org and get a nice flip flip book too :) there are a ton of older zines there so tag it as such and add to the stacks. (I have been down a zine rabbit hole and think we need more of them!)

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

Steven Lawson Photography 2d ago

@byandreas @benbradley Sounds interesting, I will look into that, thanks.

Anemone Nemorosa 2d ago

@StevenLawsonPhotography

Beautifully done. I really like the pairing! It really adds another dimension. Looking forward to vol 2 & 3! 😊

aboutgrau 2d ago

@StevenLawsonPhotography @benbradley it‘s finally out and looking gorgeous! what a wonderful selection, so much diversity in there

ghostdancer 2d ago

Thank you very much. Great work. 👏👏👏

@StevenLawsonPhotography @Billthoo @benbradley Great collection!

@StevenLawsonPhotography

Just a FYI:

"Link temporarily disabled
This can happen when the link has been shared or downloaded too many times in a day.
Check back later and we’ll open access to more people."

Also, are you doing these monthly with different themes or is this a once-a-year thing?

Steven Lawson Photography 2d ago

@beep Yes, I was aware and have upgraded my account from the free one to a professional one at a cost of £19.99 a month, so that should solve the issue. This was a once a year event, but I am considering doing something in August, too.

@StevenLawsonPhotography Blimey, £20 a month is a lot! Specially for something you didn't need until undertaking this wonderful community venture. It might be worth trying to find a cheaper cloud provider? Not easy to see how the community can help support it, though.

As for the zine itself, brilliant! The juxtapositions really make it. For me the pairing where your imagination has contributed so much is the light bar from @thelearningcurvephotography and the drawing from @Billthoo , Excellent

Steven Lawson Photography 1d ago

@carusb @thelearningcurvephotography @Billthoo Thanks Chris. There are cheaper cloud storage providers but they all throttle the downloads - Dropbox's Pro account allows unlimited. It's a monthly payment so I won't keep it for long.

On a Third Photography 1d ago

@StevenLawsonPhotography @carusb @thelearningcurvephotography @Billthoo if you wanted to set up any crowdfunding or just take donations I would happy to contribute to this cause

Steven Lawson Photography 1d ago

@ianlewis @carusb @thelearningcurvephotography @Billthoo That's kind of you, thanks, but I'll be OK for this year, though I will look into other options when we do it all again next year.

@StevenLawsonPhotography @benbradley
this is pretty damned cool.
thanx

deer witch 2d ago

@StevenLawsonPhotography It's phenomenal!!

I love your abstract water zine and used it as an example for how page layouts impact our understanding of visual content, and you nailed it again with this. I adore the image pairings.

I hope you do this again next year ~

@StevenLawsonPhotography @benbradley Wow, I'm amazed at the quality! It's awesome!

The Learning Curve Photography 2d ago

@StevenLawsonPhotography @benbradley Nicely done Steven. Great work 😊 👍

DragonFlame 2d ago

@StevenLawsonPhotography @benbradley

@SallyABL Congrats on your cactus 😊 Great collection of photos here.

SallyABL 2d ago

@RHW @StevenLawsonPhotography 🤭 Thanks! Totally unexpected. So delighted to have been included given all the fabulous contributions to the challenge. And more to be shown in vols 2 and 3.

🌵 Taken at the arboretum, no less. 🌵

Alexander S. Kunz 2d ago

@StevenLawsonPhotography thanks for all the effort and thought you put into this, Steven. Some of the groupings/combinations you chose are great and elevate the whole thing far beyond the individual image. Kudos! 🙇‍♂️

Many thanks for collating and creating @StevenLawsonPhotography @benbradley 👍