Its Only 365 Days
21/366: WHAT IS FLICKR?
21 JAN 12
Three years ago, I had no idea what Flickr was other then something to describe the last dying moments of a candle. Now, some three years later, Flickr is this global community of photographers, professionals and non-professionals alike, posting everything from mundane portraits of the family dog to the sweeping landscapes of Italy.
I often feel like sometimes in life, you're so alone and so isolated, but with a few keystrokes, you realize just how connected you really are to the world. Three years into my Flickr subscription, I am still amazed each and every day at what some people photograph. I cannot believe the talent and I'm not just talking from the professionals. I am such a fan of a lot of my contacts works because there is the story behind what they do and a feeling and emotion behind it that they've somehow managed to translate into startling, thought provoking images. A picture is worth a thousand words in so many instances.
I'm doing my third 365 project and its like, okay, I feel like I've definitely photographed myself in a hundred different ways and my city, but it isn't enough, it will never be enough or rather 'the end.' Linkin' Park, "this is not the end, this is just the beginning." If you think you can't possibly come up with a new idea or find something new and interesting to photograph, then you need to get out of the camera business for sure because life happens everyday. Just as an example, New York is one of the most photographed cities in the world. I'm pretty sure everyone who has been or lives there has photographed each and every part of the city, but then something like 9-ll happens, and its a new, New York. A destroyed New York, a war zone, an image of a world in chaos, a picture of loved ones covered in the ashes of once magnificent buildings, its the story of survival, its a New York that had never, and hopefully will never, be photographed again in that manner.
Photographers and the Flickr community are a powerful one. Each account is a set of lives, memories, and experiences that are sometimes shared, and sometimes private. I know anyone reading this knows what I'm talking about. I just feel like expressing much gratitude today to the inventors of Flickr, and all of the people I have met along the way here.
21/366: WHAT IS FLICKR?
21 JAN 12
Three years ago, I had no idea what Flickr was other then something to describe the last dying moments of a candle. Now, some three years later, Flickr is this global community of photographers, professionals and non-professionals alike, posting everything from mundane portraits of the family dog to the sweeping landscapes of Italy.
I often feel like sometimes in life, you're so alone and so isolated, but with a few keystrokes, you realize just how connected you really are to the world. Three years into my Flickr subscription, I am still amazed each and every day at what some people photograph. I cannot believe the talent and I'm not just talking from the professionals. I am such a fan of a lot of my contacts works because there is the story behind what they do and a feeling and emotion behind it that they've somehow managed to translate into startling, thought provoking images. A picture is worth a thousand words in so many instances.
I'm doing my third 365 project and its like, okay, I feel like I've definitely photographed myself in a hundred different ways and my city, but it isn't enough, it will never be enough or rather 'the end.' Linkin' Park, "this is not the end, this is just the beginning." If you think you can't possibly come up with a new idea or find something new and interesting to photograph, then you need to get out of the camera business for sure because life happens everyday. Just as an example, New York is one of the most photographed cities in the world. I'm pretty sure everyone who has been or lives there has photographed each and every part of the city, but then something like 9-ll happens, and its a new, New York. A destroyed New York, a war zone, an image of a world in chaos, a picture of loved ones covered in the ashes of once magnificent buildings, its the story of survival, its a New York that had never, and hopefully will never, be photographed again in that manner.
Photographers and the Flickr community are a powerful one. Each account is a set of lives, memories, and experiences that are sometimes shared, and sometimes private. I know anyone reading this knows what I'm talking about. I just feel like expressing much gratitude today to the inventors of Flickr, and all of the people I have met along the way here.