Friday, January 11, 2008 7:00 AM
Jan Tielens
[OT] 5 * 3 * 2007
Yves has passed me this little stick...
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3 artists I (re)discovered this year:
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X-Pose (Belgian photographer) There are a lot of good photoblogs in my RSS Reader, but Bert (aka X-Pose) is one of my favorites;
the portraits he makes of his kids are
fantastic. He doesn't just displays his photos but takes the time to explain how he took them as well, I learn a lot from him.
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3 things I won't forget:
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Visiting Sowetho (township in Johannesburg, South Africa) The feeling I got after visiting a two weeks old baby and her mother (my wife was still pregnant at that time) in Sowetho, and driving back to my
fancy five-star hotel was devastating ... the world is not fair.
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A
smile makes you forget sleepless nights.
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3 stupid things I did in 2007:
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I stopped blogging on this site (more or less) ... now it's really hard to get motivated again.
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I stopped my
365 project (take and publish one photo a day for one year). I have take a picture almost every day in 2007, but I didn't publish them.
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I didn't "safely remove" a USB hard disk from my computer and lost some data. Windows complained about the drive still being in use, I didn't trust Windows, but Windows was right this time.
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3 thing I'm proud of:
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3 things I bought or received as a present:
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The
Sigma 30mm f1.4 lens. I recommend every photographer to get a fast lens (big aperture, allows lots of light to enter the lens). This is my favorite lens, you can't zoom with it (it's a prime), but you can
take pictures when it's near dark (without flash).
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And of course the most precious gift of my wife: our daughter (including all the love, joys, laughs, tears etc that came with her).
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3 people who will get this stick (if there are still some people who read this blog?):