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Instagram and me

Posted by Paul on April 18, 2013
Posted in: Photography. Tagged: , , . 18 comments

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Taken with Hipstamatic, my favorite iPhone photography app

I have an Instagram account. I rarely use it. I’ve tried to use it, but for some reason, I can’t seem to get into the whole social media thing, whether it be Twitter (which I like), Facebook(Ho-hum), or Instagram. Some people take to it like the proverbial duck taking to water, and one of them is Ove, whose blog I used to follow; however, he’s not posted anything to the blog since January. I hope that he won’t mind me quoting him here:

So, what am I doing, then? It’s not that I lost my creativity. No. I’m at Instagram. Yes, you read it right. I make all images with my mobile phone. No Photoshop whatsoever. I even do colour. What makes this a great platform to me is that I can focus on the words that I often end up with in my head. I write a haiku for every image I make (in Swedish, though).
~Ove

As a matter of fact, I hope that he’s still following and will leave a word or two about his experience with Instagram. I follow Ove on Instagram, and he follows me. The above photo, taken the other day, is the last one that I’ve posted on my account. I’m finding that if I take a photo or two, while I’m out on my walk, it’s easy enough to post it to Instagram and keep walking. I posted a few of my ‘feet’ photos there as well. Unlike Ove, I don’t have a haiku to post with them, or sometimes nothing much to say. It might have just been an interesting, to me, photo.

I listened to a video broadcast on iTunes University and the speaker was saying that Instagram is the wave of the future, as far as photography is concerned. He said that with billions of photos produced each year, it’s no longer about the individual photo that you have time to look at and admire, but now about the instantaneous photo stream. Even news outlets are getting into it, bypassing the editor, letting trusted photographers post directly to the company’s Instagram stream in order to be out front with the news, completely disposable photography, worth only a single glance, then off to the next one. I’m not sure that I’m there, just yet. It seems a bit overwhelming. Perhaps it’s just because of my personality type.

Anyway, how many of you use Instagram? If so, please include a link to your account so that I can follow. I’d like to see what’s going on out there.

Connections

Posted by Paul on April 12, 2009
Posted in: Personal. Tagged: , , .


It is always very meaningful to me when a new blogger stops by my blog. I always wonder how they found me on all of the cyber noise. It’s really nice when they decide to post a comment, or two, or three. But what is even more rewarding is when shortly after they appear here and I am reading their blog that I see some of my old familiar blog family posting there a day or two later. I like that!

Such is the case with Chris Klug’s blog, Patterns of Light n’ Dark. Chris stopped by for the first time, I believe, last week, made some nice posts, and hung in there when my Spam Karma 2 kept telling him that he was a spammer and refusing to post his comments. Well, SK2 and I finally came to an understanding, I think, and now Chris can post.

Chris was, in a former career, a lighting designer and his photographs have beautiful lighting. I’ve been looking at them and trying to see what I can learn from them.

Now that I’m going on year 4, which hard to believe, I can think of many of the people who have dropped by and visited during that time. Sometimes I go back through old posts and see their names, click on their links, and a lot of times am disappointed because they are no longer blogging. However, there always seems to be someone new to come along, for a season, and add a new dimension to this blog.

I just love it! It’s one of the things that makes blogging very much worthwhile.

Social Networking

Posted by Paul on April 7, 2009
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A few months ago, I would have never even considered having a Facebook account. What for? Well, now I have one. It’s funny what being on your own for several months will do to you. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not a big fan of TV, save for watching an episode of House or two. Sometimes the TV will go for weeks on end without being turned on. If I want video entertainment, I’ll watch a Netflix instant movie or watch something on Hulu, but, for the most part I prefer to read.

I can deal with lots of alone time, but sometimes I just want some interaction. My favorite person to hang out with and talk to is my wife, but she’s not here in Summerville right now, nor is she in the country for that matter.

So, I decided that I would join Facebook just to see what it was about. I know that Tony has a Facebook account and cannot seem to wait to get home and see what’s going on in his account. I told him that I had a Facebook account and asked him to add me as a friend. He said “No way!”. :-) I figured as much. I’m pretty sure that I don’t even want to know what they talk about.

Well, I joined and have found a few of my high school friends online. I also found a young lady that I used to work with, Stacey, It’s kind of fun to see what people are posting. It’s pretty superficial and a great waste of time, but it is interesting to see who’s doing what and where they are living.

I was having lunch with a former coworker and friend of mine, Rajesh. He’s a single guy and I asked him what single guys did during the weekend and evenings and he said either watch TV, play X-Box, or drink. :-) It didn’t sound so appealing to me and he agreed. I suggested that he take up a hobby. LOL!

During my 8 months here I’ve done a number of things to keep busy so that the evenings don’t seem so long, but sometimes it would just be nice to have dinner or a movie with a friend and just chit-chat. I’ll probably dabble in Facebook for a while, but I sincerely doubt that it will hold my interest long.

Anybody else on Facebook? I looked at Twitter too and decided that Tweeting’s not for me.