Richard Vanek - Black and White Photography

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Tuesday, 25th March, 2008

Still snow
[posted at 06:55 GMT]    

So few free days is over and we experience here a lot of snow for this country. Today morning I actually need to clean car from about seven centimeter layer of snow with ice under it. Driving was nice in sunny morning with snow on fields. I like it very much, that is what I really miss in this country. That refresh feeling in the middle of the winter, when you wake up and there is a snow everywhere, quiet with deep blue sky and sun shining. It gives you that necessary kick in the long nights period of winter.
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As Dave writes, on the photography front, I scanned all six rolls I developed. So it takes five days for six times thirty six images to become available for me to select from. It is not bad, but if I imagine I like to work on something next day, it is just not possible. It is nice for shooting images as they go, but you just can't have serious continuation. Well you can, but it is a bit different.
All my series, like night mood or water and wood, or even blurry tryout worked out as shooting session of max 2-3 hours. I never actually come back to the same, why? Well I guess I never felt again same way. Pity is that I may come next day, and take images better that those day before if I saw what I did wrong or how I miss my imagination with them.
Well, maybe it is only in my mind, nobody can really know for sure. But I believe that be able to see images at the end of the day and be able to evaluate will help.
On other hand I must agree that film has certain level of uncertainty which can bring specific look to you images, look I wouldn't like to loose.

I also made quite a updates in my photo library, in sense I add tag and keywords I didn't last few times, when through last few month of images and finished updating meta data. It was rather interesting to see some images I forgot about.

Browsing my own photos
[posted at 20:07 GMT]    

I was just browsing through my own photos on the web. After I developed next six rolls I just felt like looking on work I published at this site, having in mind maybe some different way of displaying my work here. As I went through some fifty last images I have notice quite interesting trend about ratings. It is rather strait forward to see which images people likes and which not. Rating is still not very popular, but even from that few which are on site I can see that images which are generally nice and purchased the most are also the one with highest ranks. I guess it is working also the other way, so I will be removing some images from shop and some I will add to it.
I like to earn some extra money for supporting my transformation to the digital world. So if you like to have some of my last photographs I captured using analog cameras and film, now it would be good time.