I don't talk to strangers!

Very nice, and dramatic photos Siegfried! I hope what you have here is just a taste and that there will be many more to come.

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Thanks for your visit and favs, Granddesign! I'll do my best to show you more goodies of my work over the time. I'd like to point out that I'm here since yesterday only! :)
A good day for a start as it seems!
Happy birthday ipernity!

Ohhh, hellowwwwwwwww, I'm a mermaid.... :D What do you want to know?! eh?!
Welcome to Ipernity!

Yes, you are a mermaid swimming in an ocean full of pictures and streams! :)
Well, what I'm really interested in is what drives you to act as an artist, and to exhibit your work here at ipernity.
Thanks for your warm welcome! :)

ah well, that isn't completely true now is it :-D you "talked" to me. and from my stream i think i've made an introduction of myself :-)

really looking forward to more of your work.

You're looking quite good from that introduction, as I'm sure you know. :)
I have the same question as with Oniric Mermaid: How comes that you put so much time in your artwork - and show it here at ipernity?
Thanks for your visits and kind remarks, MacKey!

Oh, I missed this before, sorry

Well, I came to Ipernity from Flickr last year after the riots anti-censure, when this place was like a palace in a ball, with lots of artists around. I liked (and I like) the possibility of integrating different media in just one website, especially having a public blog on matters that matter to me. It is a pity that most of the best photographers that came last year have left. I still have my main account in Flickr, since I consider the artistic community there better and bigger, but I'm sort of tired of the dynamics there, and I'm spending more time here lately, because it is a peaceful place and I feel less "stressed" here.

What drives you to act as an artist? It is a need to express myself, like eating to feed your body. I create to give way to my imagination, to my thoughts. It is my way to reflect about the outer world and my inner world. I need to write and I need to do something artistically visual, like painting or photoshopping or photographing, or whatever. To create is like being pregnant all the time and delivering all the time, with the pain and pleasure that that brings. That is to me create. Places like Ipernity allow my to express myself beyond my usual circles of people.

What about you? What is your background? What brought you to Iper? What moves you? Are you psychologist?

Ah, flickr! What else? :)

I came from fotocommunity.de, Germany's earliest platform for photographers. I was there almost from beginning, when there were only some hundred people, and everyone knew the others. Was rather familiar and mostly friendly then. Easy to get feedback. Then happened the digital revolution - and now they claim to have 600'000 members. Gone was familiarity, gone was quality of photo content and remarks. But yes, the grounder makes big money now. :)

Am I psychologist? Of course, who is not?! But then, not as profession. :)
My background is technical, and I always was looking for a counterbalance to my all-too-often left brain only work. Pictures are my answer and I'm happy again.

"To create is like being pregnant all the time and delivering all the time, with the pain and pleasure that that brings." Thanks for that self description, dear Mermaid. I will remember you by that! And by your creative work. And 'cause Blade Runner is an all-time favorite movie of you! :)

Thanks for this conversation! Conversation start, as I hope.

To create is like being pregnant ... that's a very nice description. :-)

das ist ja eine feine idee! :-)
da wir uns seit über 4 jahren kennen und du dich auch schon intensiv in meinen blog gewühlt hast, muss ich dir ja nicht mehr viel erzählen. ich freu mich jedenfalls, dass du hier bist. :-)

Ich mich auch, Mona! Nein, eine Fremde bist du nun wirklich nicht für mich! :)

Thanks to you. I'm going to copy and paste part of my reply into that's me set. A good addition to my own definition of myself. Glad you like it!
PS: Well, some people are more psychologists than others. Yes, we are all a little bit. But, you see, there are the fools who think that can fool everybody, those who use inductive language to make you do what they want, those who have an easy insight into human psyche, and professional ones. So which one of the others are you? :D

Haha, I like your style! Your pictures are so calm and self-contained, but in your writing you're a constant agent provokateur. And you like to determine the rules. :)
What is your profession, dear Mermaid? Would you tell me?

hahhaha...
ummmm, hhhhh, ummm I won't ;D Not for now hahahahhah until you tell me which sort of psychologist are thou :D
Oh provocation is what I call mental stimulation!
Hey, my collages are not self-contained!

OK. I'm a hobby psychologist of the badest sort, Mermaid! :)
Now tell me your profession, if you don't mind. And of course, keep provocating mental response! :)

Thanks for the visit and comments, Siegfried.

I only talk to strangers.

Thanks for your comments, too!

> I only talk to strangers.
That is a wise insight, 6 of 1. Neverteheless, have the same question as with all of my visitors: How comes that you put so much time in your artwork - and show it here at ipernity?

:DDD I was fearing so :D
Ok, I have a PhD in something, and I work using my brain and other abilities. Humanities not science. Favourite hobbies thinking. analysing, learning, opening my eyes to world, and mental doodling. Favourite Sport, provoking; I wear the boxing gloves just in case. Abilities: I make new words quite easily, just to express myself fullyness. Thinks I hate: fakefullness and stupid-ee-tea. I never give details of my real me online, but all what I have said it is true.

Still waiting for your reply to my last question in my last entry blog... your criteria.... spill the beans... or at least the bins :D

Thank you, dear mermaid, I slowly get a better picture of you! :) PhD in Humanities is all I need to know for now! And regarding the rest of your self-description, ipernity must be a paradise for you! :)
Looking forward to seeing and hearing from you under my contributions!

what about if you'd start introducing yourself :)

zumal bei vielen die bilder , die sie zeigen schon sehr
viel über ihre person sagen ... nicht ?

Hi Mo,
that's true of course - the pictures people show in their stream tell a story or two about the authors.
What I would like to know of you is the same as with all of my visitors: How comes that you put so much time in your artwork - and show it here at ipernity?
Thank you. I appreciate your visits an comments.

i stumbled by chance over a photo sharing site and
i was fascinated seeing what other people were showing
in their pics : either because of another perspective they were
showing or because of the artistic work they presented .. both
attracted me and let me start sharing my work .
i changed from the other site ( one you seem to know too ) to ipernity ,
like many others for known reasons ... and landed here .
i love the atmosphere of this smaller and mo-re european community ...
and i met wonderful people that mean a lot to me meanwhile -
the most important one you know too by now .
... the reason for spending time here is because i love to communicate with
other people .. see their pics , get to know what they're thinking and seeing ,
maybe what they're dreaming .. mundane details out of their world .
i also love to know what they think and feel when they see my pics ...

... told you a lot .. it's your turn now !

Thank you, Mo! I see. And I listened. Socializing and sharing emotions and thoughts with others is a great thing! Nice to have you here!
Some lines about me. When Internet was young (hehe) - or at least community sites - I discovered a photo community site. And as I just had started with digital photography, it was a perfect match. I learned a lot looking at other's work and discussing my pics and that of others.
I just outgrew it, as it became a mass phenomenon, like everyone has a digital snapshot cam by now.
Ipernity is not the masses - and I really hope it will stay this way. I like familiarity and when the community is not too big, the comments tend to be richer in content.

seems like we like the same things about ipernity and
showing our work , sharing with others - i totally agree
with what you said !! i forgot about the learning from and
getting inspired by other members ...
ich freue mich auf unsere künftigen dialoge und diskussionen ..
cu °–° !

speaking about me is not what i prefer ... mo was right (again...grrr..).......i like to show in my pics what i feel and what i love ...... look at my pics and you will know how is my vision through my eyes...and maybe who i am ... :)

Thanks for your self-description, franck! Is ipernity something special for you?

very special and still mo-re :)

Ah, I knew this would happen. :)
But putting mo aside (difficult to imagine, I know! :-) ), what's special with ipernity for you? Why are you showing your work here?

I make pics from 2 or 3 years .. and I knew ipernity at random from my walks on the web.
the first thing that I wanted to do here was to observe and learn through pictures of other people. Then I regularly posted my pics to shares with others my look on the world around us.
Ipernity is a treasure of diversity ... and I still have much to discover here.
but I have already found much *MO*-re that I hoped... :)

Thanks a lot, franck! Do you think this ipernal diversity will finally cause you to develop and strengthen your own style to photography? Or will it just distract you?

I really think that see the ideas of other people, we can imagine new....
i don't have a real style ,sure i have a preference for the colours satured, but i love photographied all sort of things ..... nature , people, child, life of all the days
but it's a beautiful distraction too..and a window open on the world.....our world..
and you, what you think about this?

Der stream sieht klasse aus, werde ich mir nochmal genauer anschauen...jetzt muss mich erstmal um meine neuen Fotos kümmern;)

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I'm so happy that we are related, dear grandnephewuncle, otherwise you might not talk to me either! ;-)

Hehe, you are so right with that, dear grandniceaunt. But being so closely related (only 14 corners wide) I hardly can ask you to introduce yourself here for my knowledge. My other guests and casual readers of this blog, however, may be thankful for a little self-description and answering of my two by now already famous questions: Why in general, and why here?

Very great stream, I love you black and whites so much
I am motaz from Palestine

salam

Salam Motaz! Nice to have you here in our small group of people!
What I would like to know of you is the same as with all of my visitors: How comes that you put so much time in your artwork - and show it here at ipernity?

I just use ipernity as a backup !!!

I shot->develop->scan->upload most of my photos
200mb X month is not bad at all for me

Why not flickr, because it rocks of lamers and spam, and I left flickr because of the censorship

Many times have I looked over this spot, but haven't had the time to properly sit down and compose an answer. My first blog post could serve as an introduction of sorts.

What it all boils down to is that I find the notion of people enjoying the images I capture very pleasing and thus strive to produce more images. By doing this I document my reality, the activities of me and my wife and relatives and so on. One underlying thought is to be able to show images of my reality in the present in the future to possible grandchildren etc. (as I have the pleasure of looking into the world of my grandparents and my parents when they were children). Seeing my great-grandfather next to his car with a three digit number plate provides a nice connection to the man that was dead for thirty years before I came to the world.

Having seen pre-war images of my father's siblings give so much more context to stories such as the one of the sheep that they kept for the summer which was turned into meat in the autumn. Sitting at the dinner table my aunt was first to refuse eating of their beloved sheep and was followed in her protest by the other children. Then my grandmother joined in refusing eating it. Finally my grandfather accepted that he could not eat it and the meat was traded for mutton from a nearby farmyard.

To finish this rant, I photograph mainly for documentary purposes and secondly for artistry and I am glad when someone out there fancy something I've shot. Why Ipernity? Because I used to be active at flickr. Just as I was about to pay for their services (had a plenty of interesting images from our honeymoon in Tunisia last year) last summer the bomb fell (that is, their let's-censor-all-German-language-users blunder) which was followed by other censorship-related idiotic incidents (such as the smoking adolescent Romanian boy which was deleted). The creative climate felt stifle and I lost faith in it all. Then I found ipernity, my account was dormant until I chose properly insert myself in the current :)

Since art or creative processes are two-way processes, I suppose I need an audience to be motivated to make art.

A bit boring to look at slideshows of the contents of my home computer alone in the dark at home ;) On your stream I find many inspiring images of various types (a rather condensed comment I suppose).

I like it how you plaited little stories of your life into that position statement, dear Scoo. Thank you for your time and effort. This self-concept of storing, sharing and feedback is it what makes ipernity such a great little plattform.
Thanks for denominating me "inspiring of various types" - glad you see it that way, buddy!

hmkay, short note: nice to meet you Mr. S. - i like your sense of humor.
about me? my intention to be here?

i hope to get discovered by a rich art mentor and to become a photography superstar.

azephalia, that's a perfect reason to show your work here I think. I heard that ipernity is full of trend scouts and agents seeking for the next big talent!
Thanks for your self-description! :)

:-D

Hi Siegfried,
Just want to say that i really like your PF.Some excellent mono images.
Best regards,
Joe.

Thank you, Joe. That's a good statement for my guestbook though. :)
Here I'm asking my visitors (and now you) two things:
How comes that you put so much time in your artwork - and why do you show it here at ipernity?

Number 1. coz it gets my creative juices flowing.
Number 2.I found a link on red bubble,so checked it out,and liked what i saw.I'm also on epz.Art,be it painting,photography or what ever should be shown.Thats why i'm here.

Photography is a creative hobby for you, and ip (and other platforms) are your stage to the world. Ok, thank you so much for your self-description, Joe! Hope you enjoy my stream.

photo-sharing platforms such as this are global and progressive and transcend
'national' or 'regional' style, symbolism, beauty...taboos also.

many of us have been waiting decades for the capability to do exactly what we CAN
now do. the tools we have use of now..digital sensors, gimp/photoshop, broadband, ipernity
etc - fantastic. =]

i enjoy our communal pursuit of seeking imagery and producing it
just to please eachother and ourselves. this is a global fraternity .)

Yes, I'd like to back up the argument of internationalism. I have been member of a Germans-only photo plattform for many years, and after a while it got a bit incestuous. Here, multi-cultural platforms like ipernity make a real difference.
Thanks a lot for your thoughts, pixel cafe!
BTW, do you come from another platform, or is this a brand new start?

i migrated from flickr Siegfied.
i am liking it here.

my early impressions of IP compared to flickr..
the extra functionality is interesting.
the ability to see who visits you - encourages more interaction and networking.
even as a free member here i seem to be able to add a picture to as many groups as i wish,
(at least - as many as i have wished to!) rather than the maximum of ten, on flickr.

i am learning to blog a little bit here. it's a new experience for me.

Thanks again, pixel café. Last question, as this is not your first photo platform: If comparing your experiences in IP with flickr - do you miss something here in IP?

no, nothing =] virtual utopia =P

any improvements you would like, siegfried ?

Yes there are improvements. The ipernity lists for latest activities or latest publications of my network seem to have errors. Same with latest visits in my ipernity site.
I'd really like to see all events in these lists, not just some of them!

well, hard to write anything now. i'll be back later.
good idea btw.

i like the idea of that post.

i started on flickr... because of censor, and because people i like moved, i moved also.

why i photograph? well.... because i like it.
why i'm here? just to know what others think about it, and to learn, to be inspired, to watch, to see, to think sometimes....

Thanks, The Coward! Somehow I missed this one it seems.
Inspiration is what I seek too...

hello siegfried... you have some incredible captures and many inspiring photos. thank you for sharing... just dropping by to say hello.

Thanks for popping in, Jane! As with all my visitors, I have the same questions for you: How comes that you put so much time in your artwork - and show it here at ipernity?

oh, ipernity... i'm still pretty new here i think, made the switch from flickr because a friend was on here. looking at others art is inspiring, less clutter on the way to finding this beauty is a plus... that's what i find here. seemingly like-minded folks doing the same thing i am... sharing, looking for inspiration and trying to find out how these works make others feel. plus... i live in an area where there are plenty of artists (in their own right) i just don't like any of it and don't really fit into the 'style' that is going on here... maybe i can start a new scene... haha

Hi there Siegfried! You have a very nice stream, I will be back for more. As for why I'm here... well it's a diversion and I like the people. It's a cozy size community. And I like to learn from the many different artists here.

Thanks, ypell - sorry for my late answer, I seem to have missed your comment.
That ipernity is a cozy size community I'd agree with. And that changes so much! I quit other communities that grew too large and got unpersonal in the way.
I hope ip can manage to stay this familiar!

why am i here........? well cause i am visually addicted to everything visual. because of people like you and others on here that are of interest mentally and visually. and im sure like most, because i want others to see what i see or least take a look.

Thanks for your outing, Midwesternstock! You're welcome!
That's a good point: Seeing the world through other's eyes. And offering the own unique view to others.
Why especially ipernity, given all the other photo-sites?

yeah. this place blows flicker out of the water, hands down.

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For more, it's your turn to introduce yourself on my blog :)
good night :)

like you, i don´t tlk to strangers either and have less patience for them as time goes on. a photographer; i prefer bw photos, even thouh i luv colors very much, just can´t break the habit of bw´s. i like the way you work your perspectives. make for a very tantalizing stream. btw, i luv austria, it is such a beautiful place. lst i went to vienna, stayed with friends and luved the city mood. i now live in brazil, out of the big city, near Rio. i get the rush of the weekends and am close to big city when i feel like it.