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- Cross country adventure ◊ Tomorrow I will start a cross country road trip from New York City to San Francisco. For this reason there will be no updates for a few weeks. But don't worry! As soon as I return I have already a few artists ready to contribute with some outstanding work! If you'd like, you can follow my adventure on my cross country blog.
- The 2009 Photoblog Awards ◊ We have submitted the Green Tea Gallery Magazine photoblog to the 2009 Photoblog Awards! If you want to see this photoblog win, please follow this link to vote (registration is required)!
- How to… ◊ Tonight we published a page to explain how to submit your images for publication to the photoblog and how to submit your photo essays for consideration. Check it out and participate actively to the Green Tea Gallery Magazine by having your own work published!
- First Photo Essay ◊ This weekend we completed the integration between Wordpress and the beautiful Flash image viewer Autoviewer by Airtight Interactive. In order to show how photo essays will look, we posted a short photo essay by Francesco Gallarotti. Check it out!
- The Logo ◊ Michel D'Anastasio is the author of the Green Tea Gallery logo. I fell in love with Michel's work a long time ago. He is an artist like no other and his use of calligraphic form to express spirituality and nostalgic emotion is impressive and touching. His color palette is rich and diverse with pristine clarity with forms which come straight from the soul. His relationship with inks and colors is so intense that every stroke is like a poem. Don't miss the opportunity to visit his website www.script-sign.com!
- The History of the Green Tea Gallery ◊ Today we published a brief history of the Green Tea Gallery, for now posted on the front page of the magazine, later it might be moved in the About section.
- Submit your Images Today! ◊ We look forward to receiving your submissions to the Green Tea Gallery Magazine's photoblog! For more details on the simple submission process, please take a look at this post on the GTG Flickr group. Submissions are open to all the members of the Green Tea Gallery main group and the sister group Green Tea Gallery - Hasselblad Edition.
- New Website Design ◊ The new design is pretty much finished! The main website is powered by Wordpress with a custom theme based upon The Morning After by Arun Kale. The photoblog is powered by PixelPost with a custom template based upon The World in 35mm by Joe Roback.
The Green Tea Gallery Magazine
The Green Tea Gallery was born on a hot summer night of 2007 when, after spending way too many evenings on Flickr browsing through so many beautiful artworks by so many talented artists from all over the world, I decided to give back to the community by creating a virtual space to collect some of my favorite images.
Unlike many other Flickr groups, the Green Tea Gallery didn’t focus neither on a particular photographic style nor on a particular theme. It didn’t require its members to comment on other people’s pictures nor tried to involve them in useless contests. From the day the gallery opened its virtual doors to the world, the focus was the aesthetic value of its images and, for this reason, I paid great attention to the screening of the images to the group pool.
About a year later, in the late spring of 2008, this companion website was opened with the idea of collecting some of the best images of the pool and publishing interviews to some of the most talented members of the Green Tea Gallery. The final goal was to publish an actual magazine, printed on demand. By fall 2008, already months in the editing process of the first issue of the magazine, with about half of the pages ready to be printed, I realized that unfortunately the administrative side of the project was interfering with my private and work life and I had to pull the plug on the entire project.
Today, about a year later, inspired by many encouraging messages and having learned from my mistakes during the first Green Tea Gallery Magazine project, I am re-launching this website with a completely new model: less words and more images. A much simpler and more streamlined workflow this time should allow me to be able to make this project a success without disrupting my private and work life.
Posted by Francesco Gallarotti, photo editor and content editor of the Green Tea Gallery Magazine.
Photo Essays
Long Island is located just east of Manhattan, stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean. It’s the longest (you guessed it) and the largest island in the contiguous United States, and has an estimated population of 7.7 million which makes it the most populated island in any U.S. state or territory.
Nonetheless, I feel like Long Island is not very well known at all. New Yorkers tend to think of Long Island as suburbia and as their backyard beach. The rest of the world doesn’t seem to pay much attention to this large and highly populated island. Most of the tourists that go to visit New York City (most of them landing at JFK airport, which is technically located on Long Island) probably don’t even know the existence of Long Island.
This photo essay wants to pay tribute to the unknown beauty of Long Island in the winter, when the temperatures fall below the freezing point and the frigid winds coming from the north leave only the seagulls on the empty beaches.
