Yves's blog

Part I - Intro: Agitation
Part II - Seeking inner peace (light from the inside)
Part III - Promenade / The perplexity of reflecting ten years in ten minutes / In between dreams
Part IV - Outro: Fading memories

This is a dedication to my lost sister.

(After my keyboard has been under repair for 2 months, I finally could complete this piece of music after about two days...)

(unfortunately without all the comments...)

Although flickr still is gonna remain my photo-home for now.

I realized very recently that it's pretty much a farce from flickr that one will not be able to see more than the last 200 photos, when the pro membership expires. They really expect you to pay each year for the rest of your (flickr-) life! Ok, it's a tactic to make money, but a very stupid tactic... not stupid in the sense of making money, but in the sense of respecting others......

It's funny, in the last months I almost didn't have a single week that I not found a photostream of guys showing off their new 400D. I just wonder, because most of these guys just get it as addition to their other DSLR(s), so no wonder, the quality of their images, bad or good, doesn't change at all. I guess it just must be cool to have one.

As for me, I wanted to have one as well for quite a while (just can't afford) and am still shooting on film - so for me it would change a lot as most of you can imagine (developing - money for the film and developing, you need to wait; scanning - time, between 2 and 3 hours for two films; etc.). I don't want to speak about the other advantages of especially a 400D for me now, slowly actually I start to wonder if in the end (when I finally can afford) I'm really gonna buy one... but as I just heard, there will be a new version, a 450D soon, so maybe the 400D might get cheaper... then of course I try to take that chance.....

I've been thinking about different things lately... myself and other stuff. Especially if you know how it's brewing in the two largest and most powerful countries in the world you might start to worry. The good news is that there should be a bit of a positive change in one of them. And there surely will be a big relief from all sides, when Bush has got to resign from office (if he not quickly changes the rules for the eight year period for the US Presidents - and he had done similar stuff already for his favor). On the other hand, Bush also just must have been a marionette in a much larger something. But it still will be on the new President of the US to contain such powers. On the other side, there's China with its communist regime. You can get an idea about what's been going on there for example in the China/Tibet-Group on flickr: www.flickr.com/groups/freechina-freetibet (especially the latest two threads). If then you get a comment like one from the former minister of defence of China, Chi Haotian, in mind, who in 2005 said "Our economical evolution exclusively serves the preparation of war." (www.flickr.com/groups/freechina-freetibet/discuss/72157602145288772), then you've got to worry again. Well, at least in both countries there's been growing a common consciousness and people can view the other side of the coin too (it only might get dangerous if they listen to one single controversial voice that stands for 'freedom of speech', like it currently seems to happen in the US). And it's still very worrying if you picture a possible result of all the facts put together in the thread '8 things you have to know about China' (www.flickr.com/groups/freechina-freetibet/discuss/72157603648584732).

Well, for me, as I'm in Germany, I can feel quite save for now and I surely don't want to stoke fears. Just awareness is the most important thing to do to prevent worse things that already happened or that are still going on (even if there are maybe just two or three people that get to read this here completely). So I still believe in a positive change concerning many things... finally, in a personal way, I want to hearten the way of everybody's thoughts and decisions. Our inner reactions on something should follow the thinking with the minds and then thinking with the hearts. Many people let actions follow, without regarding that last point, for different reasons...

More comments on this topic can be found on my flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/yives/2175060859

For now I've only been posting from the gorgeous and extended shoot with Frederika, but let's see how often I get the chance to take pictures for others again...

Click to go to the page: www.ipernity.com/user/31830

Would be great to see you there!

Wow, just today I found to 'Camino' and am blown away!!!! This is what I call surfing now... in comparison, before I always felt like sailing on a rowing boat or even worse.

I was using Firefox for a long time, but lately and for a while already I felt like it got slower and slower, especially when "surfing" through my main photo-page. Finally it didn't even work at all anymore on my mac, so I needed to find a solution. 'Safari' seemed ok for a while, but very fast I noticed it's even slower than 'Firefox' and has many more disadvantages. Well, with 'Camino' waiting for a page to load for seconds seems like something forgotten...

I have a quite good range of great jazz-stuff (classics and newer stuff), but didn't buy a lot in the last about two years. Also before that time I regularly read a jazz-journal, so that it was not too difficult to find some great new publications (or older ones that not have been so popular).

As for now I only can afford 1 or 2 CDs a month and I'd like to find something that's special, deep and captures one. Also in the past I bought a lot of CDs that just were average and not very interesting... even if mostly the musicians have had a good reputation, or even better.

If you have favorite CDs (besides the classics) would be great if you tell me.

Here are some of my top-favorites from the last years (no particular order):

I would recommend almost every CD in the list as must-haves (for jazz-fans of course).

your voice counts

Quite a manual

it's about music