July 2, 2007

We've got the summer issue all primed and ready to go and are planning out fall even as I type, but the biggest news around here is our photo contest. Tori tours make us greedy. It's a fabulous time to get those candid pictures of our muse onstage and off, meeting with fans.

This is not the first photo contest I've helmed or co-helmed at LBW, and I've got to tell you that they're almost as scary as they are exciting. Tori's fans are avid and talented photographers, and we expect to be flooded with fabulous images, all of which will need to be organized before the blind panel judging in February so that we can be sure they get equal opportunity viewing... and that we can match them back up with their photographers when they're done. LBW staff could tell you that I'm a tad bit on the obsessive side. For me, this means a ton of charts and folders and files... and a lot of time on my image program of choice, Adobe Photoshop, making sure that the images are a good size and resolution to qualify.

For you, it means an opportunity to win some prizes and to see your photographs immortalized in print. Even if your photo does not win, we will do our best to publish it in some future issue. We keep your photos around forever, and if ever we do find a good spot to place it will do our best to get a complementary copy to you. We keep your address on file. Just be sure to notify us if your contact information changes! You can always reach Nadyne or me at editor@little-blue-world.org.

In honor of the photo contest, we're adding another article to our Article Excerpt section here in LBW Online. Concert Photography, by current editor-in-chief Nadyne Mielke, ran in Vol. 5, No. 2, Summer of 2005.

Have a good summer, guys, and happy photographing!

--Angela