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By: a civilian-mass audience

a civilian-mass audience — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:04:41 +0000

LUCIE AWARDS
time to shine
DAH and ANTON
DIEGO and ALL
You are the vision
you are the strong
along with the people
who DO believe
that hard work can bring
amazing results…

I love you ALLLLLLLLLLLl

By: panos skoulidas

panos skoulidas — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:34:08 +0000

THAT WAS 2009!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TOMORROW THE 2011 LUCIE AWARDS!!!! STAY TUNED!

PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR

BurnMagazine.org

Aperture
C International Photography Magazine
Foam International Photography Magazine
GUP (Guide to Unique Photography) Magazine
Lunaticmag.com
Nueva Luz Photographic Journal

http://www.lucieawards.com/2009awards.html

By: eva

eva — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:37:26 +0000

Paul..

get the book, pay back later! No kidding!

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:08:51 +0000

Yesterday I had look through Koudelka’s recently republished “Gypsies” and I was surprised by the matt paper, it took me a couple of minutes to get used to the “look”. I’m much more accustomed to seeing a little shine in prints but I finally fell in love with it. Well I left it at the shop, I’ve got more pressing things to pay back and because the book is utterly safe in the bookshop nobody round here buys those sort of books, only dribble like “Mastering photography once and for all”.
What I really found immensely interesting was how strong the contrast in the prints were. The blacks were real black without any detail at all, big fat blacks and film grain everywhere, marvellous!! Quite refreshing from all the farting around these days with digital trying to find detail everywhere in the blacks, highlights and techniques like HDR.

By: Mike R

Mike R — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:45:10 +0000

Can anyone recommend an Ipad portfolio App?

Mike.

By: Sam Harris

Sam Harris — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 10:26:55 +0000

ooops! a bit lagged here, Brunei not ‘Burn’ei… : )))
i need a good shower and some sleep…………………..

By: Sam Harris

Sam Harris — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 10:25:43 +0000

Greetings all from Burnei airport, probably one of the most boring airports to be stuck!

By: a civilian-mass audience

a civilian-mass audience — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:42:30 +0000

Go MR.HARVEY!…twitter feed …you are not afraid to “move around”…

“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
hmm…I strongly believe that MR.EMERSON was talking about MR.HARVEY ..yeap

and as MIKER says…
Can I purr now?:))))))))))

By: Frostfrog

Frostfrog — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 07:46:27 +0000

Thanks Paul… more to explore… I had actually been there before, but it was good to return…

Thodoris, I know what you mean… I will be dropping by often and I won’t be disappointed if a cat shows up every time…

By: Imants

Imants — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 03:28:26 +0000

Could be …………. David seems to use it on burn to inform

By: michael kircher

michael kircher — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 02:04:19 +0000

Twitter, fast food joint of information.

By: Imants

Imants — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:27:22 +0000

and the above was more than 140 characters……. to reword it, back to thinking

By: Imants

Imants — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:26:25 +0000

I am sure the well crafted has a place but very much a diminished force but having written that, one has to have pretty good communication skills to twitter successfully.

By: Imants

Imants — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:21:14 +0000

Look there is a great chance that you will produce something great and receive popular support for it and the same goes with just about anyone. As with most being in the limelight and or cutting edge probably won’t last long but nonetheless a worthwhile journey. Who knows it cold be Obama giving Putin a peck on his cheek…….people would love that.

By: tom hyde

tom hyde — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:59:42 +0000

Imants, appreciate the reasoned response. And I agree, to some extent, except that not all of us take the time to be craftsman. Twitter isn’t literature. Each have their purpose. So, I think there is still room for the long-form well-crafted piece, and for the craftsman who spends a lifetime honing their craft (they used to be called professionals) and still room for those known entities that deliver it consistently (they used to be called magazines), although I certainly see those lines becoming blurred. Certainly socialization/democratization/whatevertherighttermis of content is a good thing but if only “popular” work is seen and promoted, everything would be kitty’s in bomber jackets. So the cloud becomes the arbiter. I don’t know if that’s the complete answer.

By: Imants

Imants — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:30:50 +0000

In he art and photographic world exhibiting is easy with a bit of money. Put together some work, pay a gallery about 400 to 1000 dollars for a 2 week viewing and you along with another 2 or 4 peers have a show on. These are on in their tens of thousands every week and are mainly seen by family and friends. Advertise on a site, blog any social media and to become part of that huge information collective. Some work gets better exposure than others but that is not the point it is that huge juggernaut of producers and consumers that creates or new world not a few chosen individuals. Steve Jobs is done and dusted the products he helped to create are evolving and changing. It was not Jobs that changed dictated the terms it is the consumer/audience as a entity and their responses that implement change …………………and that is the great part about where we travel.

By: Imants

Imants — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:13:45 +0000

I am happy for the media to develop and not be forced and photojournalists are heading towards niche internet audiences that are similar minded.There is nothing innovative about placing the same old tired models upon new technology.
Participants on sites like twitter are getting it right they inform,people react or enact upon the information and then get on with either something else or expand upon what has been put into place. There is no need for old style editors, so called professional journalists etc, things aren’t bogged down by silly copyright laws or bureaucratic nightmares. Something gets done and discarded when no longer relevant
………..it is not about a individuals job or career it is about all of us.

By: david alan harvey

david alan harvey — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:40:01 +0000

PAUL

i ended up really loving that fake watch..just as easy to love fake as real i guess…anyway, true to form it stopped ticking pretty early on…i might have lasted a couple of months…i did not know you were an old Road Trips reader, although i am sure you have said so…hard to keep track..well, come to think of it considering Burn is out there on some sort of international scene, we still pretty much have the same broke down bar here in comments that we have always had..my stories a la Road Trips do not happen because i want to let others tell their stories…but maybe i will bring back a version with the new website where multiple things happening will be easier…and besides that my instagrams are a new type of diary anyway…i looked at my contact sheets from the instagrams…damned fascinating…real snapshots..not trying too hard..loose…something good about it..honest…unadorned…anyway, yes amateurish activity that is a lot of fun and honestly what is really going on around me at any given time…i have never “gone anywhere” to take one of my instagrams…i just take out the camera and take a picture..rarely moving from my seat….actually even my so called pro stuff is not far from that either..but, shhhhhhh

cheers, david

By: Thodoris Tzalavras

Thodoris Tzalavras — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:36:32 +0000

Bill, I know I’m in good company…

The blog was a long time coming, for all those singles, miniseries and works in progress that I can’t find a proper way to show on my website… it was one of those things that spent an eternity on the to-do list…

As for the cats, besides the four we have living indoors we now have three kittens with their mom in the backyard… so you can imagine the number of pictures I have… I have to exercise control not to post too many of them…

p.s.
I’m quite familiar with http://nocatsallowed.blogspot.com

By: tom hyde

tom hyde — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:22:58 +0000

“Another misguided attempt to keep the old alive rehashed by yet another “new” online magazine”

I find it innovative, forward looking, hopeful, riding the leading edge, quality work (including from at least one photographer who has appeared here), not mired in despondency … but opinions obviously vary. It makes me wonder though what you are doing here if this is your view of innovative concepts in publishing in general, and specifically photography? And what exactly is the delivery device for the general world audience today? In five years, in ten? What risks taken today will lead the path for tomorrow? Are you that sure? It’s a new world to be sure and it will take a thousand failures, or more, for every success? What then is the future? Do you know? I guess I am just a big fan of those who keep trying. The alternative kinda sucks.