Farewell 2016 !
My last post of this year, taken yesterday on a quiet little road near our home. Frankly, not the best year I can remember by a long way - the continiuing insanity in Syria and Iraq, not to mention the horrors in Nice and Berlin, the Brexit nonsense and then Trump, and finally the news that Ipernity will likely fold, so I will not be sad to see this year end !!
If Ipernity does go, I have more or less decided that I will not return to Flickr, I've paid a few visits there since the news about Ipernity broke, and I'm not impressed, so I think I will restart a dormant blog I have about the Kodak Tourist, and also try to use that camera a lot more in 2017. I'm not very familiar with blogging, and I don't do any of the social media stuff, but maybe I will be able to make something of it, and perhaps spend more time taking photographs !!
What I will miss is all the many friends I have made on Ipernity, and the inspiration of your beautiful photos, and so I still hope Ipernity will survive somehow. Ever the optimist ! Happy New Year !!
1948 Kodak Tourist, f4.5/105mm Anaston lens, x2 yellow filter. Foma 400 in divided D23 5+5mins @21C, scanned @1200dpi on Epson V500
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Taken on Friday December 30, 2016
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Posted on Saturday December 31, 2016
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Murray Kelly said:
Anyone else used picasaweb.google.com?
I posted an album 6 years ago for a friend so that his friends could access the pictures I took at his farewell function. I have just checked and they are still there (and should probably come down) but I know nothing more about it.
Anyone?
Mikeinlagardette replied to Murray Kelly:
Never used picasaweb, although I like Picasa as an editor when I don't need all the bells and whistles of Gimp!
The problem with anything Google is that it seems to depend entirely on what they deem to be worthwhile - they withdrew all support for Picasa on Linux, and they recently closed the excellent Panoramio site with very little warning, and Flickr is owned by Yahoo, who want out, and they are just as ruthless as Google.
Nearer home, I'm very disappointed by the deafening silence from the Ipernity bunch - the annual general meeting was on the 12th December, and I cannot imagine that some decisions were not taken then, so how come we have heard nothing - even if it's only a definite closure date?
All this has made me think more about restarting a blog, but it's a lot of faffing about to get it looking half-decent, and I don't do the social media stuff, so probably not going to get a lot of visitors !! Might consider a paid portfolio site, but I'm not sure it would be worth the outlay, it's not as if I'm trying to sell my pics, it's just a hobby! Take care,
Mike