what do you see like: 2012

oh I'm thinking it'll be really good for me to slow down my reviewing process, definitely.
a little breathing space and all that.

it's a shame that clothes, furniture, and curtains are rarely so colorfully patterned any more!
so so so so so true

i am sure there are some migraine-inducingly upholstered parts of the country where we can prove this wrong

I certainly hope so.

hey ilp
remember a while ago, everyone posted some photos they had taken on aeroplanes, it was fun & infectious, it drew upon a well of photographs drawn from an impulse common to camera carrying aeroplane passengers, it was both fun to do & so enjoyable to look at. earlier i was looking through somebody's photos & there was a really good shot of something that had a word on it. the word really popped. it was vague enough not to make the photo this literal thing, but meaningful enough to mean you were meeting the aesthetics half way. it was an influence on how you looked at it. even just the way the word was written. i think about words in photos a lot because they are simultaneously kinda easy meat, sometimes - they can do a lot of the heavy lifting, maybe, like if you take a photo of some kind of distressed-looking industrial marking that carries a lot of weight & has a certain authoritative aura, or maybe if you shoot a brand logo or something - but they can also be really abstract, in a bunch of ways, in isolating something from context or repurposing the language or letters. i remember reading david shrigley talk about how strange it was to think that a part of his day for any reason involved the phrase Why am I being asked for my password?, once he had zeroed in on it. i thought maybe some people could post some photos that have words in them. i am not totally just setting myself up to be leap in with my own awesome contributions under the guise of a democratic survey, like "did you ever meet anyone famous?" "uhh well i-" "WELL YES ONCE I MET BONO", eager to pounce. but i thought it might be a unifying subcategory of photos. is anyone in?

sorry if i am turning ilp into the last page from the weekend magazine in the guardian, i promise i will keep the themes abstruse & resistant to poetry

is it okay to post dog pictures here?

it is the internet, go right ahead

Words are good. Let's do some words.

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2349/2423362629_6927865b3f.jpg

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3209/2409068302_be3a69f5bb.jpg

"Please". You can tell I live in the UK.

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damnit middle two in the wrong order. not that it would be any more grammatical.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8191/8098581162_459dd59dc6.jpg

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/25/41089839_721e19348f.jpg

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that jacket is so bomb

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first roll w/ my first SLR:

http://i.imgur.com/SmGZJ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/CRn0J.jpg

ended up with a nikkor 28mm-105mm lens that has a macro mode-- very very different from what i've been doing for the last 3.5 years, but that's kind of the point-- the rest of the roll is blurred/out of focus/overexposed lol

also have a 50mm prime f/1.4 coming in the mail this week.

ha i guess even those two are blurred/out of focus, but i like them anyway

they're lovely. so soft. that's w/400CN, right? doing things that are different in a way that makes you fuck up a lot is really good i think. i am pretty into the distortion of my phone camera right now.

rad words phots btw! i love that anything was ever industrially branded with FECALS

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3265/5872070283_b9bd93fcd2_z.jpg

One from a while back.

I wonder how many of us make a loose New Years resolution to take more shots, I am still a newbie pretty much but I've just gotten a couple of lenses for my Rebel (cheapo 50mm 1.8 Canon and an EF 85mm 1.8) and am looking at a Tokina Wide Angle lens. So this is my resolution, just opened a Flickr account and am also going to try to overcome my street shyness (this is hard, I live in London.)

I was up on the roof of my workplace testing my new 50.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8362/8300112430_fb6b8999fa.jpg
IMG_1787 by nwrhns, on Flickr

I decided pretty much on a whim last Jan 1st to do a 366 project for that reason ("take more shots"), as all i was really doing was photographing bands. I've stuck at it, but not sure I've really improved all that much from it. Less than a week to go now, so that's good!

just playin with new camera, nbd dog pictures

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http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8080/8292783294_ceeb1de847_c.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8497/8328420964_11a7b9e5a0.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8078/8292451986_846358543c.jpg

last one is like, ok put the f**king camera down already

and some words too

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8359/8328397122_3dcbc833cc_c.jpg

i love love love that pic of the dog with the window frame in focus

me too :-)

just thinkin baout things

first roll on a new camera, apologies for posting again so soon:

http://i.imgur.com/Kffqe.jpg
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oops wrong thread

my Winogrand tribute:

http://i.imgur.com/mJVmBBz.jpg

god damn it can we lock this thread