Editorial

Staff · Issue 33, Nov/Dec 2006 · pp. 4

Products mentioned: Elephant! (book)

Editorial Cover shot I’d like to think that, if nothing else, UwP has been quite consistently good in the Front Cover Department. In fact such has been the consistency over the years that one out of our 13,386 registered readers actually wrote in to say so! This Issue’s front cover, to my mind, is no exception and it illustrates several salient points about photography and the world wide web. Firstly the image itself is extraordinary. I shouldn’t need to have to tell you that. The subject is highly unusual and the composition is spot on (especially for a horizontal cover) providing space at the top for the UwP title and in front of the elephant to list the content in this Issue. So why didn’t I use it filling the page? The answer illustrates at the same time all that is both good and bad about the world wide web. Steve Bloom is a professional nature photographer with several books and ca…