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I received an email the other day from a reader – complaining that on this site's home page is found the claim that the site is "non-commercial", yet that I use it to tout my portfolios, workshops, andThe Video Journal. Also, and what seemed to stick in this reader's craw more than anything else, was thatMike Johnston, who has now written more than 100 gratis essays for this site over the past few years, has the chutzpah to promote his newly published books as part of his recent articles. Clearly the difference between making a living though ones writings and ones artvssellingother people's wareswas lost on this particular individual. But the irony was not lost on me that I h...

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Michael Reichmann is the founder of the Luminous Landscape. Michael passed away in May 2016. Since its inception in 1999 LuLa has become the world's largest site devoted to the art, craft, and technology of photography. Each month more than one million people from every country on the globe visit LuLa.
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