Focal point: Who needs Instagram?

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There are no shortage of filters and effects at our fingertips for manipulating a photo ­today. Our smartphones alone have an endless array of apps, filters and functions to make an average image look otherworldly. Perhaps because of this, it’s more pleasing than ever when a photographer succeeds in capturing something similar in real life. ­Photographing a gardener through green netting, staff photographer Jaime Puebla created an image resembling a screen print, with no apps or filters needed.

*Brian Kerrigan, photo editor