8/25/2014

Meanwhile in Russia
EXPLORING THE WORLD 


Actually I am more for dogs than for cats. But this six are too cute not to have some picts of them. And one can sit for hours just to watch how they are exploring the new world around them








8/21/2014

SOVIET STYLING

Pictures from a car exhibition showing 1950s and 1960s cars from the Soviet Union. Actually not so much difference from US car design (and fuel consumption) of that time. ;-)







8/18/2014

GETTING INDEXED



Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpredation equals photography. [Arnold Newman]


   Once there was a time when this sentence has its validity. Once there was a time when quality was more important than quantity,  the quality of a picture was more important than the quality of self-marketing. As a photographer you had a solid (year-long) education, in some countries (e.g. in Austria) a master craftsman degree was required for having a photographic business. The measure of your success was the quality of your work. And not the number of "clicks" your photographs are achieving, not your ranking on search engines.

Then came the Internet. And digital photography. And the phrase "If you buy a violin you own a violin. If you buy a camera you're a photographer" became a (sad) reality . Worldwide newspaper publishers are firing veteran photographers and are replaceing them with iPhones. In art not the quality of a photo is decisive, not the statement, the aesthetics, but the sales price only . Photo orders are only rarely awarded according to criteria such as quality, reliability, visual ideas and their implementation. Much more important today the "search algorithms", "keyword density", "meta tags", "canonical link elements". etc. In science there exist the rule "Publish or Perish". For a photographer applies accordingly: "SEO or perish". And so you spend hours and hours with "contextual advertising" or "behavioral targeting". And it stays on one end to perhaps 20% of its time to get creative. 

Brave new world ...

8/15/2014

…DOWN TO GORKY PARK.

Pictures from a relaxed afternoon in Moscow's Gorky Park.




"Nobody can be uncheered with a baloon" (Winnie the Pooh)

Changing of the Season.

What's in the News?

The Selfie

8/11/2014

SIMPLE THINGS I

Sometimes one can rejoice on very simple things