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This month's featured photography submitted by our local readers. Send your photos to submissions@shoremonthly.com for a chance to see your photography featured in a future issue of Shore Monthly! Photo by Judith Lappen #ThroughTheLens #photography #LocalArtist #April2019

Shore Monthly regularly publishes photographs submitted by local photographers, both amateur and professional. Everyone is welcome to submit photos to this feature, “Through the Lens.” Caroline J. Phillips is a contributing photographer for Shore Monthly. She is a full-time photographer and filmmaker living on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. She will be teaching a continuing education class about everyday photography at Chesapeake College in fall 2019. Here, she shares some advice

Gunther and Anastasiia du Hoffman quip that they go to church every day, but it’s true. The couple’s home is a small Gothic Revival church near Longwoods on state Route 662 in Talbot County. The board-and-batten siding and Gothic-arched openings of All Saints’ Episcopal Church, built in 1900, reflect the influence of famous architect Richard Upjohn’s rural architecture pattern books. For the du Hoffmann family, the unique National Register structure has provided challenges, a

Lesley Giles is a painter with a fondness for color and lines. She’s exhibited all over the world and is currently based in Cambridge. She’s originally from London and describes a bit of the reaction her colorful paintings received there: “Bit bright, isn’t it?” “You’re not really English, are you?” She recalls such statements in good humor and absolutely no apology for the type of art she enjoys creating. She says her paintings are post-cubism and landscape pop-art. “I love

One snowy afternoon in February, a short stack of poetry postcards sits on the industrial paper cutter in the print shop at Washington College’s Rose O’Neill Literary House. Red ink on white paper and featuring a poem by Nick Flynn, the postcards are from a student project, the tympan paper for which is still sitting on the platen of an early 1900s press. The print shop is operated by Mike Kaylor, a man with a certain Hemingway-esque look about him, a master printer who also

It’s a tough time to be beer, what with the carbs, the (gasp!) corn syrup and the silly advertising. From a medieval fiefdom controlled by a ruthless king that cheers “Dilly! Dilly!” to the most interesting man in the world (a middle-aged guy with no career, no family, no secure relationships and just one suit), it’s easy to see why some people are turning away from mass marketed beer. But still: what will we drink when we finish mowing the grass? Or when we sit down to eat c