There is no good reason why you should still rely on Google search for your search engine. Read this excellent article on Google’s practices, and Big Tech chills run down your spine. There are ample good alternative search engines these days that do have integrity:
Bing (though also Big Tech and historically suspect)
And there are more.
Lately, I’ve been using Ecosia and DuckDuckGo side by side. I don’t feel like I’m missing anything about Google.
Kronkeling has the most fun blog about photography.
Kronkeling has a hard time photographing on vacation. I don’t share this struggle. I always takes pictures. Sometimes it’s for the image, the beautiful picture, sometimes for the subject, so just the snapshot. I decide the goals afterward, but then I am different from Kronkeling.
Tips for your holiday pictures from Kronkeling are here.
Sometimes, there are miniseries, like when our car broke down, and we had to wait until a mechanic came to help us. I photographed all the trash in the parking lot.
Or, during vacations, photographing tourists.
Or hotel rooms.
Or art on the wall.
Or numbers.
Nina Katchadourian is a super creative source of inspiration.
Meer dan een jaar geleden ben ik vegetariër geworden. Eigenlijk ben ik pescatariër; ik eet wel vis, hoewel ik dat ook probeer te beperken.
Soms is het moeilijk om vegetarisch te eten. Bijvoorbeeld als je op bezoek gaat bij mensen die daar niet op voorbereid zijn, en ook thuis, als de rest van het gezin wel vlees wil eten. (En ik ben niet het evangelische type; ze moeten zelf beslissen.)
Maar het heeft ook voordelen. In een restaurant beperkt een vegetarisch dieet de keuzemogelijkheden op een prettige manier tot niet meer dan een handvol opties. Makkelijk, geen keuzestress.
Soms is de keuze beperkt tot een simpele pasta, maar dan zit je sowieso in het verkeerde restaurant.
When Artificial Intelligence-generated images win photo contests, should we oppose that?
I just think the developments of AI are telling us to do things differently, to stand out. AI has become the competition (and maybe just a tool), just like all other photographers are. So, we have to treat AI as competition, too. You can try to deny this reality, but you can also look at how you, as a photographer or artist, can differentiate yourself from this new collegue/competition.
Ideas:
Personal and analog distinguish you from the aggregated, statistically generated products of AI.
First, we drive to Eilean Donan Castle, originally a thirteenth-century castle that was restored and opened in the 20th century. This famous castle turns out to be a huge tourist trap. We are not the only ones who refrain from visiting, and from the other side of the river, we take some pictures of this castle and the stream of people entering it. There are two rooms in the castle to visit, sic!
To Achnasheen, The Midge Bite where we were before and once again drink a fine cappuccino. Tent lives up to its name. And it’s low season, in terms of midges, and thus bites, too. In the car, we terminate a few more midgets before they can make their move.
Next, we pass Loch Maree, a three-star lake according to Michelin, and the old Caledonian forest—exclusivity largely hidden from us behind roadside bushes.
Gairloch is a nice coastal town where we stretch our legs and eat our sandwiches.
At the waterfall Corrieshalloch Gorge National Nature Reserve, we get out again to stretch our legs and conquer vertigo in a deep gorge with a suspension bridge.
Then we went to Ullapool. We walked into town, which is small but nice. It’s much smaller than we thought, even smaller than Thurso, but also nicer.
Now also available as a print.
