Sunday Quiz
What is five years old today? What has 1,894 posts, an average of more than one a day? What has more 8,000 comments? What has had more than 400,000 views?
Answer: This
Happy birthday to this. Didn’t really expect it to go on so long, didn’t expect to have quite so many visitors, didn’t expect that any of the visitors would have anything to comment. All very surprising. Thanks to all those who have got involved, apart from those who have threatened to kill and/or sue me. You know who you are and may karma visit you in the night and stick a bat up your nightshirt™.
Here’s to the next five years, assuming I live that long. Apart from the inconvenience of my demise, I see no reason to stop; I seem to be able to churn out bollocks on a pretty consistent basis and you lot seem willing to read it. Let onwards and downwards be our motto.
Right, who’s brought the cake?
Comments 🔗
2013-03-23| Grant saysHappy Birthday to This indeed! Well done old chap! Half a decade is a significant milestone for anything perched on something as frail as the interweb and clearly your mixture of total bollocks and competant photography hits the spot. Many happy returns and please dont listen to anyone who wants you to change the formula.
2013-03-24| Antz saysI’m sure Spike (or at least SWMBO) would prefer competent bollocks and total photography….. ah, but who’s quibbling!
2013-03-24| Grant saysAbsolutely old chap! As long as it’s not incompetent bollocks and the odd blurry snap all will be well…
2013-03-24| Wolfgang Lonien saysWell yes - happy birthday to this, Spike. I’m still not through with all of your older content (due to lack of time, not of interest).
Just read your thoughts on the D600 vs. E-M5 comparison again - thanks to your neighbour and his brother for these as well. Why? Because I have to stay here in Europe for at least another 4-5 years until I can retire, and here these bodies are of almost similar price if you add the grip to the Olympus.
Interesting outcome indeed. On the one hand, if resolution is all you’re after then yes, the bigger camera is better here (the Spain & Normandy cook books print is easier to read without a doubt). But on the other hand, if you look at the whole picture, then my - what a distortion of that Nikkor zoom even at 50mm! Well maybe it’s unfair to compare a cheap zoom against one of the best primes on the OM-D; it’s remarkable how good that zoom holds up against the Summilux which costs about the same. Would have been interesting to see a proper fix focal length on the full framer.
But I digress severely - again, congrats and thanks for all the fish^H^H^H^Hwriting.
2013-03-24| Kevin saysHappy birthday Pattayadays with hopefully many more years to come. Can’t imagine life without a daily fix of bollocks ( No I’m not gay ) it just helps us lesser mortals survive in these cooler climes, 11am here in the UK and its a lovely zero degrees with a biting wind around a steady 40 mph. Keep up the good work Spike it’s all in a good cause.
2013-03-24| dude saysI really enjoy reading the articles on this blog and quite often they’re about “problems”/questions I had in the “real world”. For example: Should I remove distracting objects from a photo in photoshop/gimp afterwards? So far I never did because I don’t like the thought of it but I know that many (most?) professional photographers do it in order to make the image stronger. Here’s an example: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dUUp-deMXe4/Ts1q88p7ESI/AAAAAAAAE7s/EPDD8TnBTI8/s1600/gursky-kathedrale.jpg so… anyways. I love this blog. Keep it going! Thumbs up…et cetera et cetera
2013-03-25| ChristianPFC saysHappy Birthday! Long may it continue!
Preferably without articles of horse polo, how about pictures of scantily dressed handsome (by my standards) Thai men (age 18-25) instead?
2013-03-25| Spike saysI just happen to have a photo of a very handsome Thai man, aged 23, wearing nothing but a smile. Unfortunately he is sat on a polo horse so I am unable to post it.
2013-03-25| Spike saysThat’s a lovely photo; but what was taken out?
2013-03-25| dude saysthe photo is by Andreas Gursky and he took away the pillars between the windows. the foreground might be photoshopped, too. i’m not sure. Another award winning photo by Gursky is “99 Cent” (also photoshopped) I still like his work a lot - he just has a different approach to composition than i do right now.
2013-03-26| Grant saysWhat a stunning Asian fusion of art and sport that photo must be! Christian let me have a postal address and I’ll EMS you down our nephew. He fits your quoted demographic and we’d really, really like to see the back of him…