While I'm on the topic of Times traditions, I love the way they are favoring widescreen crops at tops of their articles (online of course... I don't read the paper edition so I don't have any idea what they're doing there). Obviously there are some practical considerations -- a widescreen crop fits well into the space at the top of an article without pushing the beginning of the article itself too far down the page. It also emphasizes the wide angle composition that's so popular with photojournalists these days; no doubt the Times photographers are shooting with this in mind by now. And of course, it's become an integral and consistent visual element in the design where a more standard crop might have just blended in.
I should probably blog more about their photographs. I spend a lot of time looking at them.
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