I mourned the loss of 28mm.org when
they threw in the towel. It was one of the few Photography ezines that I visited
regularly. Recently I've been looking around for other photography ezines;
there are a few out there that I like but I recently stumbled across Mooncruise
and have decided that this is now the standard that I will now hold other photography
ezines to when I encounter them.
I'm going to excuse the flash interface for once because Mooncruise actually
seem to use flash how it was intended, to deliver a true multimedia experience
not just as a way to deliver small photos as slowly as possible. Each issue
contains a chillout soundtrack to go along with the photos and slick, mini-slide
shows. Each photographer seems to be given just enough rope to hang themselves
with to write about themselves and their project. Admittedly, it's hard to
write about your own personal project without resorting to enigmatic cliches;
after all, if you could write it down you wouldn't be using a camera now would
you? Still, I even enjoy these occasionally pretentious blurbs and they are
unobtrusive and simple to skip though if you just want to get to the pictures
themselves.
The photography is, for the most part, a rung up from 28mm.
Then again, 28mm was aimed
at photobloggers looking for an alternate forum to show their work so this
might not be a fair comparison. Mooncruise seems
to feature more up-and-coming professionals and photography students than
photobloggers. Anyway, if you've got some time to kill it's well worth plugging
your headphones into you laptop and visiting Mooncruise and
all their back issues. |
