Announcing issue one of The Landscape Photography Zine. This is a free issue. It might be the only issue. It’s a zine, and it’s designed to print at home on one piece of 8.5×11-inch paper.

It’s nearly impossible to to put everything that I’ve learning about landscape photography in a small zine of this length, so the zine doesn’t claim to be comprehensive. On the back cover, you will read the blurb, “Not nearly everything you need to know about landscape photography in a small pithy zine.” It’s not going to teach you everything you need to know. I offer landscape photography workshops to help you learn that.

Two Formats

I’m providing this in two formats (I’m sure both will have spelling or grammar mistakes because I wrote and edited it in like three hours. The layout took another couple of hours).

• The first format is for readers who want to read it on a phone. If you want to read it on your phone or computer or tablet or wherever you electronically read, you can download that one. The pages are in order.
• The second format is for readers who want to print. It’s a zine. It should be printed. You should print it. It’s designed to be printed double-sided on a 8.5×11 sheet of paper.

Print, Cut, Fold, and Assemble

When you print it, print it double-sided and flip it on the long edge. If you can do borderless printing, it’ll look better. But, it is a zine, so whatever is just fine. You get bonus points to pat yourself on the back with if you print it in color on double-sided fine art photo paper. After you complete the printing, fold the paper in half along the bottom of the front and back cover — a hamburger fold. Then cut along that fold.

Next, fold the two pieces of paper you just made between the pages and assemble the zine so that the page numbers are in order. Next, staple the zine together. I guess you could sew it together, too, if you are that type of zine lover. I like to open mine up, set it on a piece of cardboard and then with an open stapler, staple down the book’s spine. After done stapling, pull the zine off the cardboard. At that point, you’ll need to fold the staples over. You made a zine! Wasn’t that fun?

I hope that you enjoy this gift. Since the beginning of the pandemic, I’ve wanted to make a zine. I figured I better get it done before the year ended. This isn’t the first zine that I’ve made. Back in the ’90s, I used to publish a zine called The Plywood Review that was distributed through local record stores. One issue sold nearly 100 copies. I also published a zine that we put over 1,000 copies out in public places for people to pick up for free.