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May 25
2011

Posted by richard

Thought I’d post a link to this photo (not the actual photo, you should follow the link to see it).

Yes. That’s a photograph. Not a painting.

I commented, or tried to, still waiting to see if it has, but this really is what keeps me taking photos, to even achieve a photo a tenth as good as that. Thank God the human race has people like him (Frans Lanting).

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  • richard
    Yeah you may be right there. Things for sale below $1, stunning! Did you see that surveillance video a few months ...
  • macbros
    I think the fact that it's over 6' X 11' might have something to do with it. Actually, no.. I don't ...
 

Feb 28
2009

Posted by richard

I was amazed to see this, but this photograph fetched $3.34 million at auction. It’s called ‘99 Cent‘, by Andreas Gursky.

Really, are photographs worth -that- kind of money? I can see paintings being worth that much, so much time and effort and creativity goes into them, but photographs to my way of thinking, while art in their own right, don’t rate the same value.

Interestingly though, the previous highest, Steichen‘s ‘The Pond — Moonlight‘, is rather beautiful and artistic (I don’t think 99 Cent is). But still, probably not worth $2.9 million. And that’s just for a print btw, not for the negative. There were three prints made of it…

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    *heh* I always seem to spend my available free funds on computer stuff, so breaking some of that out for ...
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    Hey! I upgraded my account to the Pro too, was uploading way too much! I like your park pics, especially ...
 

Feb 20
2009

Posted by richard

I bought myself a camera recently, thought I’d try this as a hobby to stop myself from working all the time. It’s a fairly nice camera, and since I finally got the memory card from Amazon I’ve been taking pictures like mad!

Of course my photos are amateur-ish I have no doubt, but I’m taking hundreds of them and learning slowly. I think that I need a better lens than the one it came with, I would like to take more close-up pictures, but this one is still pretty good.

I’ll change the blog over the weekend to include my Flickr feed, if I can ever get Flickr to actually upload (it’s stuck at 99%).

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