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fun tilt and a bit more tweaking from a scenario in front of our fisher hut at Sandvika fjord, Lofoten, with neighbour's kids having enormous fun trying themselves at fishing crabs and whatever fish might be around :)
Happy Sliders Sunday everyone! :)
This is what my Great White North landscape looked like after coming back from my trip down to Florida!!! Picked up a hitchhiker along the way ! :-)
Wishing you all a terrific week-end.
Voici ce à quoi ressemblait mon paysage dans le "Grand Nord" après mon voyage en Floride. J'ai pris un passager sur la route! :-)
Bon week-end à tous!
Thank you as always for your visits, comments and support!
Merci de vos visites, commentaires et de votre soutien.
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I spent the weekend in Aberdeen, WA, and I ended up photographing quite a few abandoned places with the homeless in my frames. I don't enjoy photographing the homeless, but I do think it's a story in the midst of the state of our environment. I feel for them. Becoming homeless could happen to anyone.
Ortonized gerbera daisy taken in April 2007.
Added to EXPLORE for Sept 16th 2007. Highest position: #311
You know all those uber gorgeous shots you see from Diamond Beach, Jökulsárlón, Iceland!
Well. this is the beach to the East of the river that's just out of camera angle to the right.
The icebergs calve from the Breiðamerkurjökull Glacier further upstream and beyond the Jökulsárlón Lake. They head off thru the lake, downstream and into the ocean. They then get diluted somewhat, polished a little by the waves and then deposited upon the black volcanic beach. Presented beautifully for us togs to capture against a stunning Icelandic sky!! Or maybe not! Piddling down and very grey in this instance....
Waiting for the start of Canada Day fireworks, it was wonderful to sit next to the water, listen to the sounds of it, and feeling the cool offshore breeze on your face. The kind of night that makes you want to sleep under the stars - at least until hungry mosquitoes arrived. Reality check and dive back into the car.
A população tá bolada!
Reality check for a bourgeois girl (me, of course).
Is all about business.
Today's soundtrack: Numa cidade muito longe daqui – Leandro Sapucahy & Marcelo D2
The Canadian War Museum in Ottawa is a great place to learn about this country's military history. I enjoyed my visit earlier in the year but walking through an exhibit featuring the battlefields of WW I was a very sobering reality check. As we approach Remembrance Day, we would all do well to look back and prevent such horror from ever happening again.
A few days ago I received an invitation to attend AIPAD, the prestigious annual event held in New York City by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers, at the Armory building on Park Avenue.
I had never visited AIPAD before in my life, but I heard plenty about it, so I gladly took the opportunity to have a personal peek in there and here ‘s some snippets about my rookie experience.
First of all what is AIPAD? It is an association “acting as the collective voice of the art photography dealers that make up its membership”, as well as an event, where those members annually curate, display and sell Photographic Fine Art.
AIPAD is also a place where discerning buyers, truly able to appreciate the value of a photographic image, can go to purchase Photographic Fine Art prints.
AIPAD even appears to welcome a third category of people: those who go there not only to admire the photos on the walls, but also to benefit, one hopes, from schmoozing and mingling with photography dealers and buyers, a privilege not so easy to gain, in this day and age.
What ‘s hanging on AIPAD walls, then?
Technically speaking, Photographic Fine Art: the very crème de la crème.
Beautiful, intriguing, brand new as well as classic and well-digested masterpieces, all selected by the best curatorial efforts of some of the most influential worldwide Photographic Fine Art dealers.
What did I actually see on AIPAD walls?
Many exquisite, mind-expanding, thrilling works by several masters of photography from the past, the present and possibly, even from the future.
Concurrently, I also saw some mediocre, yet somehow craftily validated and overpriced lesser works. I even saw some occasional vomit-inducing work, the value of which can perhaps be understood only by imagining some obscure, yet fascinating Machiavellian mechanism, enabling such images to be hanged on the walls of a prestigious exhibition such as this.
But, let me stick the point: AIPAD is not a museum or an exhibition or a pop-up show. This is a PHOTOGRAPHIC FINE ART MARKET EVENT, first and above all.
And that’s the main reason I would strongly recommend you to go to AIPAD: Photographs are actually being bought and sold here: it is a valuable reality check, especially if you are a working photographer today.
Real money exchanges hands: photographic prints, of the most diverse subjects, provenance and size are given a specific value here and are being purchased by the most diverse buyers for the most diverse reasons.
No, I don’t know those reasons: It could be to invest in the work of a world-renowned author, to further enrich a museum collection, or because of a perfectly fitting color, size or subject that will look fabulous hanging above some new furniture. Or to indulge the cravings for an image you want to look at every day for the rest of your life, or it could be to gamble, to bet some money in a brand new sensation, in a still largely unknown but upcoming talented photographer.
Whatever the reasons behind a sale, it was interesting to learn that some sort of healthy market still exists, at least for an elite of living and deceased photographers, as well as for their dealers.
Meanwhile, outside the Armory thick walls, in the rather confused and confusing Age of the Photo-Bulimia, many, perhaps less talented, or less clever, or simply less well-connected photographers appear to be increasingly struggling just to maintain credibility and some fiscal stability in the work practice they love.
Fact is that while many photographers probably think it would be only fair to be given at least a shot at having their work hanging on the walls of AIPAD, a small minority of them seems to achieve that goal.
What are the reasons behind that? I don’t know. You better ask the experts.
You’ll find them in the relatively newly established (and booming) industry of portfolio reviews, freelance curators, photography workshops, etc.
This appears to be today the main, perhaps the only, filtering and validating mechanism in place, which might give you a chance, a gentle kick in the butt, to gain entry, at some level, to the very exclusive and well guarded ecosystem of the Fine Art Photography Marketplace.
I walked out of AIPAD with mixed feelings and, as it often happens, with more questions than answers.
On the sidewalk outside the Armory I bumped into my friend, Luis Mendes, the almost octogenarian, by now iconic, New York street photographer.
His 4x5 Speed Graphic in hand, he was trying to elicit some business standing next to AIPAD main entrance, offering to take unique portraits of passers-by on peel-apart instant film.
A small group of elegantly dressed ladies, on their way out from AIPAD, the latest digital Leica swinging from their necks, stopped by: “Hey guys, can we take a picture of you?” Luis replied: “Well, how about ME taking a picture of YOU, instead?”
But the Leica ladies said: “Ohh.. So sorry, maybe later, we have no money right now”.
Click-click. They snapped a couple of Luis and me and disappeared.
Needed a lot of tissues this week but I'm feeling better now!
52 weeks of 2024
Week #15 ~ Portrait at f/8
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"We must pause here for a while, at this moment in time when resemblance was about to relinquish its relation with knowledge and disappear, in part at least, from the sphere of cognition." M. Foucault
This must be the most amazing window mannequin i have ever seen so i photographed her with my iphone (not the latest generation..) and added some magic. Eyes, skin and lips are replaced by images of real models to give it a surreal look.
Back from Johannesurg, South Africa. Let's just say it was eventful.. We drove to Johannesburg from Namibia which is approx. 1 330 km's and then back again.
The St. George's choir won silver, which was a great achievement for Namibia.
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”Whoever makes anything like it to use as perfume shell be cut off from the people.” Exodus 30.34
aka ten dollar bill joint
Even though I read it online every morning, it is so much more satisfying to sit down with the paper version! Thank you, university library!!
A Message About the Absence of Spiritual Knowledge (Fiji Times): www.theawaitedone.com/activities/2015/08/17/the-absence-o...
It all starts with building trust! Not weapons! Not DE-FENCES! Let's bring back--Love--Respect--& Understanding. Peace! Collage-Nikov.
Three women say it all, or most of it.
In silence.
so....have a look at the Facebook map of the world.....
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#FailBig one day, do it again another, and with #persistence you'll #succeed! I've burned bridges, lost money, and put myself in situations I thought would negatively effect me forever. #RealityCheck = Every second, every day, you can choose to give yourself a second chance. This is the difference between #successful people and those who are entitled to the rewards or those who gave themselves a million chances! #NoExcuses