I had planned to continue my post on the “suicide of the print”, but due to some change of circumstances I save that for a later day. I just have to add that thank God I made my presentation that day and not later: the photographers I was addressing just swept the table in our POY two days later. Seven …
Time to go home. Time to ask: Did I do ok? What do I want to remember? What do I take home with me? What remains?
I started to think yesterday about the previous Olympics I have done, especially about the technology aspect of this profession. And it is amazing how much it has changed. In Salt Lake City — which was very much like these games, as the time difference was against us (if I remember correctly, also ten hours as it …
(UPDATED 19th Jan, 2010; see end) It is this time of the year. POY (Pressimages of the year / Vuoden Lehtikuvat) had a deadline last Friday. I looked at my images, selected some and submitted them. The best image of the year — in MHO — was not of sports: not Kira Korpi, not Tero Pitkämäki, not Saku …
A very strange title. The other one is a camera and the other — well, a tablet — something like Wacom-meets-the-iPhone ‑kind of thing. Why on earth do I mention them in the same sentence — a header, on top? Do they share something worth discussing? As gadgets — or tools — definitely no. Canon EOS 5Dmrk2 is a very …