The title of this entry reflects the process I went through with this image a while ago. Basically, it was a favorite image of mine since I took it, some years ago, on a late summer afternoon visiting Gavà beach, near Barcelona.
It was in fact the same exact place (heck it was almost the same exact spot!) where my Off Season project was born, last September, some 4 or 5 years later.
My dilemma was, basically, the following: Is it 'right' to use an older, single, standalone image, (which as in this case was just taken for pure fun, and meant for no project at all) on a later specific and 'delimited' photographic project if you feel it suits the idea you had in mind and the mood of the project itself ?
The answer came in the shape of some comments about this same photo on flickr (thanks sparadrap!), so now this photo is part of the Off Season project. A part I'm quite proud of, I must say !
I'm sometimes still curious about what others think about that dilemma though...
Labels: lubitel-166, off-season
As long term user of PBase, I've always been happy with their services, but at the same time always had the strange feeling that I was waiting for ... something.
Don't know, maybe a more flexible interface, or spam management, but over all, I think it was something small yet very powerful.
What I was waiting for was plain and simply, tags, or more specifically, a simple and straightforward tag/category management. Something I was even missing in this same previous version of blogger before this new reincarnation.
And then, here it comes the new animal in town. Not so new, I know. I've had an account with flickr for several months now but only a while ago I decided to explore it fully. Their 'plain white face' looked at first too... raw ?
Time went by, I became more used to it, and discovered finally how powerful the whole tag/category and mainly the contacts/comments mechanisms are. In some way the tags/comments/contacts/groups structure makes it an utopia of photographic communication.
And this leaves me thinking what to do next, keeping both PBase and flickr, stay with the former, or maybe take the plunge and move to a pro account on the later ?
I sure know that I find quite annoying to start replicating photo gallery and storage sites, so this is probably going to be one of those Thunder Dome episodes, you know, two enter...
Oh, and this thing above is a clue that my Koni Omega needs new light seals at some place...
Labels: 58mm, arista-100, flickr, koni-omega, pbase, thoughts
