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Photoblog / Prints

I've been giving Flickr a lot of thought recently. I have been a member of Flickr and taking photos simultaneously for almost two years. For a long time the two were totally inseperable. I took photos to put on Flickr. I would look at a photo I had just taken and think which groups to put in. I would wonder what tags to give it and how many comments it might get. I've come to realise that there is much more to photography than this.

Flickr has helped me immensely whilst trying to make sense of some of the technical aspects of photography, and has also helped me to understand the kind of things that interest me photographically, and what kind of photography I dislike. Flickr is undoubtedly the best photo sharing website, and the level of interaction between photographers that it allows is brilliant. But I can't help but think that too many people pay too much attention to get noticed by the God of Flickr, Explore. I think that this tends to drive people towards being technically brilliant, rather than creating interesting/thought-provoking/intelligent/difficult/inspiring photography. How many ultra saturated macro shots of flowers do you need to see before you realise that you don't ever need to see one of these again?

I think my slight disillusion towards Flickr has come as a result of looking further afield. I believe that many people on Flickr don't realise that there is a photographic world out there to investigate and just stick to what they know. I get the impression that many people on Flickr don't realise that photogrpahy has a huge history, and that there are thousands of great photographers each with a life-time of work behind them over the last 150-ish years. There are also a stack of great photographers worldwide working today, producing interesting photographs of substance and importance. It's just an idea, but why not have a look and see if there are any photography exhibitions on near you. If there are, log out of Flickr, turn of the PC, and go and take a look.

There are some fantastic photographers on Flickr and an endless amount of spectacular photographs. However, try to remember that photography existed before Flickr, and that there is a world of it to discover outside of this place. I strongly recommend that you click here and discover the work of some of the greatest practitioners of photography. If you'd rather stick with macro shots of butterflies, lakes at dawn and blurred shots of nubile moody nuerotic women then click here.

Thanks for listening, and if you're insterested, the Flickr cliche above was done with F22, 10 second exposure, ISO 400.

790 37 Nov 24, 2009 Nov 23, 2009

Either you run the day or the day runs you. ~ Jim Rohn.

I should say : "Either you turn the flash in the opposite direction, or the flash burn your eyes and leave you blind for a while."

Run, Wall-e, run !

Setup :
580ex II @ 24mm - 1/128 in front, triggered by ST-e2.

Large on black.

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699 22 Nov 15, 2009 Nov 23, 2009

A SEAT of power for more than a thousand years, the city-state of Delhi is a survivor of conquest and change. New Delhi the location for our third photographic street intervention, after Bangalore and Paris we head to Delhi.

THE LOCATION : Cannaught Place

Today, new money has conquered the inner circle of C.P making it the capital of a rapidly changing India. Spiraling rents have put a Swarovski shop where a small independent bookshop once stood, and in the same market, a shop called It’s All About Bling sells spangly earrings. Away from Retail chains that are fast taking over the early 20th-century colonnades of the outer ring we made the middle circle of Connaught Circus our gallery on the streets.

Armed with over 700 A3 photography prints we started near at the N Block and we pasted out way around the circle till we were back at Pallika Bazaar.

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