Seniors magazine Pleine Vie asked Paul Smit to write a new article to his stock photos of the Lago Maggiore. For a foreigner (Paul is Dutch but moved to France) it is not easy to penetrate the French market. So when France's largest monthly (circulation of a million) asks you for a job like this, it means: welcome in France!
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The separate Weekend edition of Flemish news magazine Knack has published the feature Wolf People in Sheep's Clothing by Mick Palarczyk. It shows what a wonderful new travel destination was added to the map of the European Union today, following the entry of Romania.
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What makes our co-operation with Voyage special is that we supply our digital images in exactly the needed sizes and output-sharpened to suit the wishes of this glossy magazine. All this after having received the exact lay-out, made using our original slides. This working method has advantages for both sides. The magazine saves on costs, while we as photographers remain responsible for the final quality of the pictures, like the exact croppings and the way the colours of the pictures relate to each other. It leads to the best possible lay-out, making the designer happy. And we are happy as well, since we have a say in the final results.
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Qui Touring, published by Touring Club Italiano and Italy's largest travel magazine, selected exactly those photos that photographer Mick Palarczyk found most striking. The cathedral of old beach trees on the cover, pictured during a drizzle, shows that you don't always need beautiful weather to take a beautiful photograph. With the non-intrusive lay-out and maize-yellow as supporting colour - which doesn't show in the photo - Qui Touring sets quite an example in cover design. The lane of trees returns in the opening spread. It's a different shot, where the hiker is even smaller amidst the giants that are as alive as they are old. Apparently it was this that led the editor to the title.
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The Belgian magazine Knack Weekend was fascinated by the colour red, which nowhere you will see more often than in China, certainly around New Year. Red became the visual Leitmotiv of this feature about some lesser known regions of southern China. The alien from the title is photographer/journalist Mick Palarczyk; sometimes he felt like a visitor from outer space when he encountered people that had never seen a westerner before.
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For the Italian magazine Weekend & Viaggi I adapted my existing text to fit their wishes: they wanted a purely cultural-historical story. Therefore my travels through Saxony and Thuringia became an exploration of the land of Goethe, Luther and Bach.
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Do you know a kayaker's paradise where you hardly meet another kayaker? Where one moment you paddle among water birds flying up and the next between churches and palaces? Where you sleep in a canal house the first night and have a whole island to yourself the second? It exists: Venice and its lagoon. Kanu Magazin from Germany, Europe's largest journal on kayaking, published the story.
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Voyage, an Italian travel glossy, emphasized the geological strangeness of the Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness in my story In Search of The Wave.
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