Yankee Magazine Photo Editor Heather Marcus shares a Polish family recipe for pierogies — a day before Thanksgiving treat tradition.
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How to make sunlights prints using paper, found objects, and the sun. Kids love this easy craft idea!
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Sunlight Prints
One of my favorite gifts I found for my daughters this past Christmas was a sunlight print kit at a wonderful local bookstore, The Toadstool Bookshop. I’ve been hoping to do this project with them for quite awhile now and given their ages, 6 and almost 4, I was sure it would hold their interest. […]
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The Circus Comes to Town
One of my favorite photo pieces we’ve run in Yankee focused on the young performers of Circus Smirkus in 2001. Our photographer, Dana Smith, captured these beautifully composed portraits in black and white. There is such an intensity and allure to each of the images. I remember having all of the black and white prints […]
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Evolution of Magazine Photography
In thinking about photography and the magazine, I realize how different the work has become in the short time since I began working here. My image research continues to involve making phone calls and sending emails to various photography stock houses and independent photographers based on a specific story’s theme, but the process has completely changed. […]
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Historic Family Photos
I love old photos. I feel fortunate that part of my work week often involves researching historic images, whether it’s tracking down an obscure antique, a historic building or town, or images of long gone celebrities and politicians via historical societies or online photography stock houses. There’s a beauty and a romanticism to an older […]