by R.I. Pienaar | Jun 15, 2005 | Uncategorized
Didn’t quite get this out this weekend and was too busy Flickering in the last few days to get this out. But here it is now, favorite photos of the last while as found on my photoblog subscriptions.
No People (all of them) – Ancient Imagery of the Future
Fort Sam – Grey Expectations
Off The Traffic – Staring at the Sun
Broadway & Wall St. – Chromagenic.Net
Fisherman’s Knots – Chromasia, and see this that shows this photo being made ๐
Yellow Crowns – Ryan Rahn
Car Park – Imagology
Coats of Paint – Shots Photography
Day to Night – Whateverland
Nightrider – A Walk Through Durham Township
Cloud and Bird, Caught in Web – Daily Dose of Imagery
I also subscribed to a single new feed: Darkshapes.com
Something new this week, people on Flickr that I added to my contacts list, I suspect there will be many more of these: atcy, dshearer, hangdog, lorilea, Ngudu Brown, rinaldi, Captain Patata, Flower87, Julespics, lunaryuna, Rigmarole.
by R.I. Pienaar | Jun 15, 2005 | Photography
There has been a bit of noise in the press about the His Royal Idiot The Mayor of London putting up signs all over warning parents to be on the lookout for photographers in public places taking pics of their sprog and that these may be Pedophiles.
While it’s fair that photos may be abused I think this will also cause a general witch hunt of photographers in public places, it is for example impossible to take any kind of wide photo of any touristy area in London without getting at least a small amount of kids in the scene, I suspect we’ll be hearing lots of horror stories of innocent photographers being harassed as a result.
Previously I blogged about a flyer made to apply to the US laws regarding photography and mentioned how no such thing exists for the UK, well it does now and can be found here
The guide was written by Linda Macpherson LL.B, Dip.L.P., LL.M, who is a lecturer in law at Heriot Watt University, with particular experience in Information Technology Law, Intellectual Property Law and Media Law.
Nice one.
by R.I. Pienaar | Jun 14, 2005 | Photography, Usefull Things
For a while I’ve been wondering what to do with all the photos I take, edit but don’t put on my photoblog. At the moment for example I’ve been posting a series of shots I took in Greenwich Park one day, but at 1 photo a day by the time I’m done there are tons more I need to put somewhere.
So I signed up for a Flickr freebie account to check it out and I almost immediately signed up for a Pro account. It really is so simple to use and organize your photos, especially with the fancy flash app they have for organizing.
The idea is to just upload all the web versions of photos I edit in photoshop, last year it was around 400 for the whole year, this year it’s nearing 300 already. I’ve uploaded all of 2005 photos and some of 2004 to My Flickr account, at the moment things will be arriving in a weird order, new to old, as I catch up with history but soon you should be able to subscribe and get a more real time view on what I take and how often etc.
I especially like the community bits, already some people have commented on my photos, added to their favorite lists etc, that’s really nice as it can be really difficult to build up any kind of community around ones own photos, but since Flickr is so strongly community orientated it’s pretty nice as a photographer.
I am still getting used to the idea of tags instead of categories, but it seems to work ok so far, everything of course outputs RSS or Atom so you can subscribe to a feed of all photos, or just for instance Photos of People.
Links:
My Photo Stream
My Photo Tags
Sets of Photos
Calendar View by Date-Taken
by R.I. Pienaar | Jun 5, 2005 | Uncategorized
I didn’t post a list of favorite photoblog entries last week since there just wasn’t enough to post about, so this weeks has a bit more than usual:
Iron Age – Chromasia
Fantasy Lake – Ryan Rahn
Metro – Skinny Buzzard
Through The Clouds – Chromasia
Guide To The Sky – Whateverland
A Bug’s Life – Chromasia
Logs In The Sky – Ryan Rahn
The Blue Bridge – Staring At The Sun
Also a few new subscriptions in the last 2 weeks to my photoblog feeds:
Stairz
Shadowtones.net
Portscan.ca
Orbit1
Stray Matter
by R.I. Pienaar | Jun 5, 2005 | Front Page
I’m always intrigued by the classifications of movies on the websites of cinemas here, you can almost use them to decide what to see never mind the titles of the movies.
From the movies currently showing at my local cinema:
Contains strong bloody violence
Contains moderate fantasy violence and scary scenes
Contains mild bad language
Contains strong language, horror and violence
Contains very strong language and drug use
Contains strong bloody violence
Contains moderate language and sex references
Contains moderate fantasy violence and scary scenes
Contains mild comic action violence
Contains one scene of drug use
All the ‘strong bloody violence’ movies are on my list of movies to watch, great.
