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Focus Illustrated, March 2025
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Frozen soap bubble. Photo © Steven Russell Smith.In the December 2024 issue, there was a lesson on photographing freezing soap bubbles. My friend, Steven...
Where My Macro Photography Setup Met With Snowflakes
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive For a long time now, several years actually, I’ve been wishing to try a new approach to photographing snowflakes. Just how I’ve wished to try this...
Study Guide Puzzles, February 2025
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Starting Seeds Indoors
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive There are very few things in this world that I love more than flowers. Every year in late winter I get thoroughly excited about that year’s garden and...
Camp & Cabin Cookin’, February 2025
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Baked Beans My mom really liked this recipe when she was young. Now all of our family enjoy it! —Submitted by Gabriel Chupp, Pavillion, WY 1 (40-oz) can...
Lepus and Columba
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Lepus and Columba are a pair of small constellations that lie straight south of Orion. Lepus lies immediately south of Orion, and Columba lies south of...
Favorite Focus, February 2025
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Focus Illustrated, February 2025
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Photo © Steven Russell Smith As I became aware of what Kevin was preparing to do when it snowed, I also got inspired to try something new with my...
Treasures of the Snow: How I Learned to Photograph Them
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Editor’s Note: With the focus on snowflakes in this issue, I decided to go back Memory Lane and pick up the first time we wrote about snowflake...
Focus Illustrated, January 2025
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Editor’s Note: After Priscilla Wenger’s lesson came out in March 2011, Ezra Morley used her lesson as a springboard. This is a reprint of his story from...
Favorite Focus, January 2025
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Eridanus
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Eridanus, the River, is a large constellation that begins just west of Orion’s brightest star, Rigel. From Rigel, it stretches about 60° southwest before...
Study Guide Puzzles, January 2025
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Winter Sowing
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Just after the winter solstice when the daylight is at its shortest, the weather at its coldest, and the gardens smooth and barren, seed catalogs begin to...