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• The LOMO LC-Wide Part 14: A Question of Composition

  
  Are the ‘rules’ for composing a photograph the same as the ‘rules’ for composing an abstract image at some fundamental level?
  May 12, 2012 2 likes

• The LOMO LC-Wide 13: A Lens Came to Save Us

  
  It’s seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world. If this is true, what happens when we see, feel and capture the world through an ultra-wide-angle lens?
  May 10, 2012 1 like

• The LOMO LC-Wide Part 12: Famous Photographers Who've Shot in Square Format

  
  Diane Arbus * William Eggleston * Mary Ellen Mark * Harry Callahan * Lee Friedlander * Hiroshi Sugimoto * Ralph Eugene Meatyard * Cecil Beaton * Bill Brandt * Robert Adams * Helmut Newton * Richard Avedon * Spongebob Squarepants * Irving Penn * Imogen Cunningham * Robert Mapplethorpe * Walker Evans * You?
  May 08, 2012

• The LOMO LC-Wide Part 11: One, Two

  
  One image captures a moment but two images tell a story. Placing images into a sequence is an essential element of visual thinking.
  May 05, 2012

• The LOMO LC-Wide Part 10: The Wide Angle Addiction

  
  Technical innovations give birth to brand new fields of creation. We should not allow ourselves to be guided by the rules and traditions that form the grammar of photography, before a new tool is brought to us.
  May 03, 2012

• The LOMO LC-Wide Part 9: Can I Ever Stop Taking Pictures?

  
  "When once you have tasted space, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." (Quote commonly attributed to Italian Renaissance painter and polymath, Leonardo da Vinci, however no source has been verified as of yet)
  May 01, 2012 1 like

• The LOMO LC-Wide Part 7: Widen Up

  
  Climb a mountain with your eyes closed. The sun comes up when you arrive at the top. Now open your eyes.
  April 28, 2012 2 likes

• The LOMO LC-Wide Part 8: What are the Ingredients of a Great Artwork?

  
  “The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren’t amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren’t moved.” (British director Peter Brook on what he strives for in theatre)
  April 28, 2012 3 likes

• The LOMO LC-Wide Part 6: Go Close or Go Home

  
  Now shoot! Look at your results and you’ll see it immediately: photos of situations where you didn’t dare to go close are boring.
  April 26, 2012 1 like

• The LOMO LC-Wide Part 5: The Master Yoda of Lomography

  
  There is a grammar of seeing. You as a Lomographer are able to play with this grammar and invent new symbols, rules and relationships. Just as the poet works with words, the Lomographer works with pictures. Both the poet and the Lomographer endlessly search to find new relationships between themselves and the world.
  April 24, 2012 3 likes

• The LOMO LC-Wide Photo Book Part 4: 50 Things You Should Wide Angle Before You Die

  
  Finally got your hands on an LC-Wide? Well start shooting and while you're at it, try to get some inspiration from our list of the 50 things that you must wide angle before you die! LOMO On, folks!
  April 14, 2012 2 comments 10 likes

• The LOMO LC-Wide Photo Book Part 3

  
  Intense colours, crisp tones and gorgeous vignettes. Complete with a 17mm ultra-wide-angle Minigon 1 lens, innovative MX button, lightning fast zone-focusing and a choice of full-frame, square or half-frame photo formats. The LOMO LC-Wide: the latest innovation in the LOMO legacy.
  April 12, 2012 2 likes

• The LOMO LC-Wide Photo Book Part 2

  
  Intense colours, crisp tones and gorgeous vignettes. Complete with a 17mm ultra-wide-angle Minigon 1 lens, innovative MX button, lightning fast zone-focusing and a choice of full-frame, square or half-frame photo formats. The LOMO LC-Wide: the latest innovation in the LOMO legacy.
  April 10, 2012 4 likes

• The LOMO LC-Wide Photo Book

  
  Intense colours, crisp tones and gorgeous vignettes. Complete with a 17mm ultra-wide-angle Minigon 1 lens, innovative MX button, lightning fast zone-focusing and a choice of full-frame, square or half-frame photo formats. The LOMO LC-Wide: the latest innovation in the LOMO legacy.
  April 05, 2012 10 likes

• Fisheye Rumble in the Pond Chapter 73: Credits Part 1

  
  We want to say a huge "THANK YOU" to the "creators" of Rumble in the Pond who made this Lomo book a success!
  March 25, 2012

• Fisheye Rumble in the Pond Chapter 72: Killer Fisheye Shots

  
  Check out these awesome shots taken with the Fisheye!
  March 20, 2012

• Fisheye Rumble in the Pond Chapter 71: Fisheye Talk

  
  Check out what lomographers have to say about lomography and the Fisheye!
  March 13, 2012 1 like

• Fisheye Rumble in the Pond Chapter 70: Further Reading

  
  Still can't get enough of the Fisheye? Here are some great reference materials for you to further enrich your Fisheye knowledge.
  March 06, 2012 1 like

• Fisheye Rumble in the Pond Chapter 69: References Part 3

  
  Learn more about the history of the fisheye lens after the jump.
  March 01, 2012

• Fisheye Rumble in the Pond Chapter 68: References Part 2

  
  Learn more about the timeline of the goldfish after the jump.
  February 29, 2012