In their book The Color of Hay, photographer Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin and her author husband H. Woods McLaughlin take us to a little known part of the world and show it to us with extraordinary grace and care. Many of my photo book recommendations have been old classics, but this one is what you might call a new classic; the McLaughlins show us the Maramures, an isolated region on the northern fringe of Transylvania, bordering the southern frontier of the Ukraine.

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The book website: www.colorofhay.com

Kathleen’s website: www.klmphoto.com

Photographs by Kathleen Laria McLaughlin

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Camera Position 116 : Turn It Upside-Down!

October 8, 2012 Jeff Curto

Turn it upside-down! Turning your photographs upside-down is a great way to help you evaluate the composition of your photographs by helping to remove the importance of the subject of the photograph and concentrate more on its structure.