Baker's Dozen: Young Photographers (Call for Work)

Good mornin'.

First of all, it's "Cyber Monday" today. It's the day when you're supposed to buy something through the links of your favorite website to help keep them in business (hint, hint) (wink).

I get remunerated for the number of things I sell through my links as well as for their dollar amount, so even if someone (a hypothetical person) were to order a few things of negligible cost they would still be helping out. I'm just mentioning this theoretically—I'm not entirely sure, but I think the terms of service of my various affiliations specify that I can't actually urge you to use my links. I'm just reporting about Cyber Monday here. Here's a list of those affiliates:

B&H Photo • Amazon US • Amazon UK
Amazon Germany • Amazon Canada • Adorama

But in case you do, thank you! Of course, I'm just as grateful if you ordered anything through my links during the rest of the year, but I'm trying to go along with the program here. I don't know what I'm doing. It's really hard to make a living on the Web.

It's going to take me longer than eight hours to compile the "Baker's Dozen: Leica Lenses" post, so please look for it tomorrow instead of today. I didn't want to start until I had all the entries in, and they were still arriving as of late last night. 

Next up
To paraphrase Monty Python, and now for something completely noncommercial. For our next Baker's Dozen, we'll be featuring younger photographers. TOP's audience skews old (they have more in common with me—you know, like polymathic sagacity and dashing good looks), but I know you're out there! And I'm sure you more mature photographers know younger ones you can clue in about the call for work.

I was going to ask for only teenagers and kids to submit work, but I decided that would be pushing my luck (extra points if you're still a teenager or younger, though). So we'll arbitrarily set the dividing line at your 30th birthday—if you're 29 or younger* on the deadline, you can submit. The deadline will be Thursday, December 14th.

Regular readers might remember this one by my son Xander (short for Alexander). He's 24, and has been shooting his rock-climbing buddies and other sad and scary things with my old Sony A900. 

The specs are the same—send the picture(s) in an email, saved in sRGB and 800 pixels wide. The subject line must be

bakersdozenyounger

...Just like that, or I won't find your entry when I search for it in the email stack. Tell me your name, where you reside, and any details about the pictures you care to; keep the verbiage shortish if you would be so kind, as I am swamped with words...happily, but still**.

On to "Pictures Taken with Leica Lenses" tomorrow—it is gonna be great.

Mike

ADDENDUM: Peter Marquis-Kyle brought up an interesting wrinkle—this is a call for work from photographers who are young now. But Peter suggested we do a call for pictures people of any age took when they were young. It's a great idea, and I'll do that in the future. But not this time 'round.

*In honor of Jack Weinberg, below, who coined the phrase "Don't trust anyone over 30" during the free speech protests at UC Berkeley***. The phrase, which was picked up by a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and radiated outward from there, "became one of the most memorable expressions of the turbulent 1960s era" according to the Berkeley Daily Planet.

Jack Weinberg. Courtesy Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley Archives.

Jack Weinberg is now 77.

**I know I should take my own advice. I've been writing too "long" lately.

***I hope you noticed that this is an old-guy reference about youth. ("Amused myself, and that's half the battle." —Craig Ferguson)

Original contents copyright 2017 by Michael C. Johnston and/or the bylined author. All Rights Reserved. Links in this post may be to our affiliates; sales through affiliate links may benefit this site.

(To see all the comments, click on the "Comments" link below.)
Featured Comments from:

No featured comments yet—please check back soon!

Comments

[Eolake]

“Polymathic sagacity”. Aha, *that’s* what it is. Thank you.

[jim]

Remember the movie "Wild in the Streets"? Fourteen or Fight!

[Moose]

Hey! I was there!

Outside the police car, listening to Mario Savio via his bullhorn.

Still in Berkeley

[cdembrey]

Less is More isn't just a clever saying—brevity rulz! When did it become mandatory for rants to become bombastic screeds? I didn't get the memo. Many photo-bloggers and political-pundits love beating-a-dead-horse ... again, again and again. Remember that a rant left unread is like a rant unsaid. Meh!

Non of the above applies to Mike. He uses his foibles to prove points.

[Herman]

Does someone in their second childhood qualify as a kid? Here am I with my OLPC (One Laptop per Child.)

[Bear.]

Nothing wrong with long - this oldie still has 10,000 word attention span.

[MikeR]

Mike, I apologize for those times I did not remember to use TOP as the gateway to Amazon or B&H (like yesterday). That buying impulse just takes over, and I make a bee line ...

[Nick]

Your son's photograph is superb. As is your blog, always. Thank you again.

[Richard G]

Congratulations. This is a marvellous enterprise, for the content, the quality of the writing and the depth of your analyses. I regularly send people the link to your “Letter to George” on the monetary pitfall of the entry level DSLR and ‘kit’ lens. You’re a great ambassador for the real America. Best wishes for the next twenty.