There was a death in my wife’s family, and we had to suddenly return to Denmark. Pernille’s beloved grandfather, Karl, died last week at the age of 90, and one of his dying wishes was that we all returned for the funeral. There are not many people I would travel halfway around the world for in circumstances such as these, but he was definately one of them. The world is a lesser place with his passing.
Despite the circumstances though, it’s always nice to return to DK. So greetings from lovely Copenhagen. Unfortunately when I arrived the other day, I found out that someone had hacked into my server and so the last few posts I had written were deleted as the server was restored from a previous day. Bloody hackers. I will never understand their motivation. Anyway, I won’t be blogging much in the next few weeks as my computer access is limited, and I have a large family of in-laws to re-acquaint myself with.
Despite that statement, I have been thinking a lot lately about the value of photography in an artistic sense, and the differences between “pretty pictures” and more conceptual images that arouse strong feelings in people. I love pictures that are confronting and challenging, but I equally love a beautiful landscape that speaks of not much more than beauty and peace (as if we’d need more). I suppose it’s all about what turns you on. If I get more time in the next few days I might ruminate on that idea further.
Thanks Richard. We’re over the hard part now, as the funeral was yesterday, so now I just wait for it to stop raining so I can go and take some pictures. Thanks for the heads up on nowords.nu That’s pretty poor form I think. I’m pleased I didn’t get further involved than I did.
Good luck and ruminations in Denmark Geoff. (I meant to post a comment on your survey of Flash packages – I found it well done, although I’m not sure I want to go for a flash based solution myself)
You might be interested to know that Onexposure have started a new website called nowords.nu, and some of your images are featured. I got banned from the site and tried to get them to delete my images from the original site but they wouldn’t. However the was no mention of nowords.nu when I or you signed up.