Spring is coming and we decided to put
our garde nin order. We tilled the field
and scattered the seed for some very good
stuff. But let’s not talk about this now. At least
not until we can pick the first fruit.

Nevertheless, we can talk about one thing
which is slowly growing - our blog. We have
a new member, Darijo Belic, a long time
friend, who has recently become the Bulb
blog administrator. With his help, we hope
to interact better with our readers. The old
blog was cancelled and the new one is coming
up soon. A complete redesign will follow,
and it includes archives of every author
and collaborator of Bulb magazine.

The Croatian photography competition
Photodays, for the best pictures created in
2008, will be held for the second time this
year and Bulb magazine will be its media
sponsor. This year’s competition has 12 categories
and the pictures will be evaluated
by a jury of six experts. The final manifestation
and the winners announcement will
be held on 5th and 6th June in Rovinj where
the meeting of the best photographers
and all photography buffs will take place.
The winners will receive a financial prize of
HRK 15,000 along with the official award
“Kadar”. Meanwhile, you can find the news
on the competition in our magazine and on
[link]

For starters, we’re presenting the members
of the impressing jury panel the organizers
have gathered.

We decided to make a step forward in
the international spread of our magazine.
The “Bulb ambassador” is the newly created
editor’s position. Ambassadors are collaborators
or international members of our
editorial office who will select the content
for our “Gallery 24” that has been the backbone
of our magazine since the beginning
and where we publish strong author photographs
from all over the world. We believe
that our magazine will gain in variety
this way and that we will keep our by now
recognizable quality. The first Bulb ambassador
is the Italian photographer Loredana
Guinicelli.

Ready? Go!

Robert Gojevic and Kresimir Zadravec

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One would think January would be perfect
time for vacation, skiing or paying bills.
Not so...

As I am writing this, 20% of next issue material
is “hangin’ in the air” - just one week
before publication. Our virtual office lacks
office confusion and adrenaline rush that
accompany meeting deadlines in a photo
finish. Are translations ready? Has proofreading
been done? Who has the plan for future
projects? Do we have all messages from
sponsors? Did the editor write his column
already?

Are you familiar with all of this? Each
one of us can identify him or herself with
these images; these do not apply merely to
publishing.

But let’s not lament in this introduction!
I’m introducing Martina Salov to you. Martina
is in charge of graphic design and, this
month, her engagement in the realization
of our magazine was huge!

I also have to mention the whole team
because we are constantly working on the
quality of texts you read monthly. Aware
that we can always do better, our team of
enthusiasts welcomed other two worthy
members: from this month, Vedran Korusic
is our language editor for texts in Croatian,
and Davor Juricic is responsible for the ones
in English.

In order to keep the high quality of the
magazine and improve the overall impression,
I’d like to know what you, our dear
readers, think of the magazine, the concept
and the content. Your suggestions, criticism
and ideas are most welcomed, even necessary,
I’d say. Therefore, write to us!

Robert Gojevic and Kresimir Zadravec

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There’s a Latin Proverb that says: “No day
without a line”. From month to month,
this maxim became a rule for our team and
gave us no rest even during the past month.

After we celebrated the 1st birthday of
Bulb Magazine last month, in December we
completed the circle by founding a Photographic
Association called Bulb. This accociation
was founded in order to promote the
development and improvement in the photographic
field.Therefore you can expect
from us many news and a few surprises.

During the last quarter of the year a few
dynamic changes happened in our team,
that we partly mentioned in the previous
issue. From this month we’re proud to present
the new member of our team, Ivan Pekarik,
writer and Globulb’s translator.

Your emails, posts and statistic data have
shown that in more than 90% of cases you
chose Bulb’s PDF version. In our constant
desire to follow our readers’ wishes, needs
and habits we decided from this number
to leave the Air platform and keep only the
PDF version.

In this sense We also improved our interaction
content. One click allows you now
to access the table of contents from every
page. In other words if you are on “Gallery
of 24” you can always go back to the list of
thumbs and choose the order in which you
will skip through the gallery.

Finally, did you have a good time for the
holidays? Did you travel? We hope you recharged
your batteries and we are looking
forward to seeing your pictures to enjoy together
the creative power of photography.

Robert Gojevic and Kresimir Zadravec

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