Comments on: Weekly Giveaway : HP MediaSmart EX490 Server- Now that’s a BIG way to end the year! http://www.photoinduced.com/4199/weekly-giveaway-hp-mediasmart-ex490-server-now-thats-a-big-way-to-end-the-year/ The first stop in your photographic life. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:29:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Isaiah Sanchez http://www.photoinduced.com/4199/weekly-giveaway-hp-mediasmart-ex490-server-now-thats-a-big-way-to-end-the-year/comment-page-1/#comment-353216 Isaiah Sanchez Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:19:26 +0000 http://www.photoinduced.com/?p=4199#comment-353216 I am Isaiah Sanchez. I really need this!!! Please I can I be in the Give Away! Please!!! I am Isaiah Sanchez. I really need this!!! Please I can I be in the Give Away! Please!!!

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]]> By: Damon http://www.photoinduced.com/4199/weekly-giveaway-hp-mediasmart-ex490-server-now-thats-a-big-way-to-end-the-year/comment-page-1/#comment-337898 Damon Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:56:39 +0000 http://www.photoinduced.com/?p=4199#comment-337898 This is why we dig you Daniel! Cheers! This is why we dig you Daniel! Cheers!

]]> By: Daniel Milnor http://www.photoinduced.com/4199/weekly-giveaway-hp-mediasmart-ex490-server-now-thats-a-big-way-to-end-the-year/comment-page-1/#comment-337886 Daniel Milnor Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:27:16 +0000 http://www.photoinduced.com/?p=4199#comment-337886 My big news for the year is that it appears that this was the year of "survival is the new success." My phone frequently rings in with tales of sorrow from all parts of the world, but at the core of this, I feel, is a positive spark burning like a horn of fire, warm light bouncing around the surrounding cliffs as a warning for all of us. The question is will we see the warning? Will we take notice? Or will pace once again derail us from seeing the larger picture, no pun intended. At the heart of all issues photographic is the photographer. We are the solution, and we are the problem. For 2010 to pull us from the depths of where our industry finds itself, all we need to do is stop, look, listen and slow down. Unique content is the key, and we've gotten away from it. We have filled the world with millions of generic content style images and then wondered why the impact of photography has fallen off the cliff. We wonder why magazines fail. We wonder why no one seems to be interested in great imagery. We wonder why the photographers being regaled are more about technology than they are about imagery. Unique content. Speed kills, as they say, and in my mind, it's been killing our business for at least twelve years. Something happened to all of us the minute we could immediately see our images and the minute we gave ourselves the allusion we were in control of everything. These things have led us here, and now we need to find the trail out. As for the year of the "death of film." I've been hearing that for almost fifteen years, and it makes me laugh every time. The best work being made these days, in my mind, is mostly produced by photographers still using film. In fact, looking back at the books I bought from this past year, and the shows I attended, shows that were good, interesting, and filled with unique content.....all film users. I also acquired several prints, all but one of which were made on film and printed in the traditional darkroom. So, here's to a 2010 of kids continuing to buy vinyl, turntables and 1980's headphones. Here's to pen and paper. Here's to taking time and doing things right. Here's to those moments of clarity where we do our best, most creative work. Here's to photographers learning to think on their own again, and here's to film surviving yet another year in the death pool. And most importantly, here's to photography. It's larger and more powerful than any of us. DRM My big news for the year is that it appears that this was the year of “survival is the new success.” My phone frequently rings in with tales of sorrow from all parts of the world, but at the core of this, I feel, is a positive spark burning like a horn of fire, warm light bouncing around the surrounding cliffs as a warning for all of us. The question is will we see the warning? Will we take notice? Or will pace once again derail us from seeing the larger picture, no pun intended.
At the heart of all issues photographic is the photographer. We are the solution, and we are the problem.
For 2010 to pull us from the depths of where our industry finds itself, all we need to do is stop, look, listen and slow down.
Unique content is the key, and we’ve gotten away from it. We have filled the world with millions of generic content style images and then wondered why the impact of photography has fallen off the cliff. We wonder why magazines fail. We wonder why no one seems to be interested in great imagery. We wonder why the photographers being regaled are more about technology than they are about imagery.
Unique content.
Speed kills, as they say, and in my mind, it’s been killing our business for at least twelve years. Something happened to all of us the minute we could immediately see our images and the minute we gave ourselves the allusion we were in control of everything.
These things have led us here, and now we need to find the trail out.

As for the year of the “death of film.” I’ve been hearing that for almost fifteen years, and it makes me laugh every time. The best work being made these days, in my mind, is mostly produced by photographers still using film. In fact, looking back at the books I bought from this past year, and the shows I attended, shows that were good, interesting, and filled with unique content…..all film users. I also acquired several prints, all but one of which were made on film and printed in the traditional darkroom.

So, here’s to a 2010 of kids continuing to buy vinyl, turntables and 1980′s headphones. Here’s to pen and paper. Here’s to taking time and doing things right. Here’s to those moments of clarity where we do our best, most creative work. Here’s to photographers learning to think on their own again, and here’s to film surviving yet another year in the death pool.

And most importantly, here’s to photography. It’s larger and more powerful than any of us.

DRM

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