A History of Our Baker's Dozens

I should write introductions to our "big" posts here. I sometimes forget that not everyone has been reading regularly since George W. Bush was President!

So, to explain: the "Baker's Dozens" are small virtual group shows here on The Online Photographer. I ask for submissions on some theme or other, readers send submissions, and then Yr. Hmbl. Ed. juries a presentation of a dozen pictures with one extra added for good measure.

Themes in the past have been:

"Smartphone Photographs," November 2017;

"Leica Lenses," also November 2017;

"Black and White," January 2018, with an extra post here;

"It Must Be Color," which attracted more than 300 submissions and was presented in three parts (Part I, Part II, and Part III), in May 2018, which also inspired a related post, "Yellow Over Dark Blue" (the title of a Mark Rothko painting). We also had some discussion over whether Jan Kwarnmark's "Emma" (inset) actually needed to be in color to work. You can see some B&W conversions in the Featured Comments to Part I, and I discuss some other readers' opinions in this post;

"Yellow," June 2018, with a separate post for comments;

"In the Museum," July 2021;

"Grandkids," September 2021;

"Objects," April 2022; 

And "Camera," below.

I'm already planning the next one.

Mike

Book o' the Week

 All About Saul Leiter. The Amazon writeup for this book says "Photography lovers the world over are now embracing Saul Leiter"—and oh boy, is that ever true of me—"who has enjoyed a remarkable revival since fading into relative obscurity in the 1980s." One of my favorite photographers. Beautiful photopoems. Saul's Early Color (which you can still get for around $300) was one of our all-time bestselling book links. (I bought two, one to thumb and one to not touch!)

This book link is a portal to Amazon.

Link to B&H

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[Jack Mac]

I think your Patreon supporters should be at the front of the line not only in notifications, but also in your judging. I think your Patreon supporters should get at least half a baker’s dozen chosen submissions.
So the email subject should then be “Patreon-BDCamera”

Then maybe my submission would have been chosen. Or perhaps my subject matter brought tears to your eyes?

[darlene]

In response to a comment regarding Patreon priority; in all fairness, just have a separate but equal Patreon Baker's Dozen. In full disclosure, I am a Patreon, but I have no interest in submitting work to Mike's Baker's Dozen call outs. My interest is in seeing other photographers work and supporting Mike and this site.

[Stelios]

Bakers dozen are always enjoyable. The grandkids one been my favourite so far.
Couldn't care either way for Patreon priorities (being one).

[Mike Potter]

My thoughts mirror Darlene's.

[Rick F]

I think you forgot “Smartphone Photographs” from 2017 : https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2017/11/bakers-.html

I know this because you picked one of mine for it ;)

[Wow, so I did. Neglected to put it in the category. Thanks Rick! I added it to the post now. --Mike]