Leica must laugh so hard at us.
Just been reading some of the early gushing over the new Leica’s and I’ve actually been moved to write about them. Rather than repeat it all just follow the link to my pmac imagery blog
the depression that follows repeated rejection
A few weeks ago I made a comment about the elation I felt at having a long run of quality control successes with my stock agency – alamy. Well that kept on running until I hit 20 passes in the row. I was on top of my game – the shots were good, the processing in spec, the workflow sorted – I began to think I had it nailed.
I should have seen the rest coming.
I’m now on my sixth QC rejec…
why its quiet
In case anyone was wondering why I’ve gone pretty quiet lately, I’m away on a work trip and not able to process and upload photo’s. In fact I’ve barely been able to do anything.
Anyway, a week in Seattle, a week in Baltimore and the another week in Seattle isnt exactly a terrible life.
a sale - my first on Redbubble
And I’m away – curiously – but perhaps not surprisingly, my first sale wasn’t a photo but a t-shirt. You know what – I don’t care, I feel great, I love the rush of knowing someone, somewhere out there liked my stuff enough to put their own hard earned cash into something I made.
Yay.
and then depression set in
After a fantastic run of 21 submissions to my stock site (Alamy) getting through Quality Control unscathed I’ve hit a wall. Four rejects in a row – I’ve never had that before. What the hell is going on? You know the worst bit, in every case the reviewers were right.
Ok, the first thing I should say is that the QC guys and girls in stock couldnt care less less about artistic merit only t…
A milestone reached on Flickr
Flickr was first photographic site I ever saw and the first I ever used so I’ve kept that site going and stay interested in it even as I think I’m branching out beyond its simple ‘community’ focus. Anyway a small milestone was achieved today – 10,000 views of my photostream. And I’m slowly creeping towards 100,000 total views.
Continuing the film experiment
Well, its been a little while since I first tried film again and I’ve continued to really enjoy it.
Personally I dont really care about the IQ differences many appear to see between analogue and digital capture. Frankly my experience has been that with careful processing you can get pretty much the same image outputs irrespective of how you input the data.
For me the only material differ…
my return to analogue
I’ve recently taken my first photos with film in a long, long time (maybe over a decade). Anyone whose seen my blog before would know I hate film and never wanted to use it again. Well I was challenged by a few mates to give it another try.
This is what I’ve found.
After an abortive attempt at returning to film (where the camera broke and I got nothing …
My first list of mentors/exemplars
Well I promised myself I would start the process of finding some mentors or exemplars I could use to guide my ideas of what I wanted my photography to be, where I wanted it to go, etc. Well I started in a pretty simple place – a book. I went to my shelf and picked out a nice little book – American Photographs 1900/2000 by James Danzinger, published by Assouline. The I just started at the front …
Picking some (silent) mentors
A quick and dirty journal entry here because I’ve promised to let my daughter have the computer (damn silly of me).
Anyway, pretty much everyone who talks about improving their (or someone elses) photography recommends finding photographers out there that they relate to, that can provide a guide, and example, an aspiration. Well I’ve decided to do that. But How? What constitutes a mentor…