2010-06-08, 08:20 | Link #582 | |
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Age: 41
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Thanks. A small update. Last month's SotM entry: Request: This month's SotM draft: I'm thinking whether it needs a border or not. I'm a bit reluctant to add one... Comments? |
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2010-08-26, 18:14 | Link #593 | ||||
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Sorry for the lack of activity, been quite epicly busy lately. Here's one hoping for that to change in somewhat near future. I may be able to muster an update in a week or two. See you around and thanks again. |
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2012-03-25, 16:54 | Link #598 | |
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Age: 41
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Haven't had much time for photography or graphics or anime or - well anything in the past 1½ or so. Might as well tell why. In October 2010 I transferred within my company again. Moved from marketing to store design and I'm loving my job once again. Spoiler for rant:
So for the past 1½ years I've been designing displays and custom furniture and doing some overall store design as well. Floor plans etc. My transfer coincided with the beginning of the biggest project in my company's history and I found myself as a part of a 4 person team responsible for designing and organizing the building of a 5000m2 (roughly 54000 sq ft for the metrically challenged) consumer electronics store. And a fair bit of the other 20000m2 of warehouses and offices within the building. So free time was on a very limited supply and what little I had I spent mostly sleeping. By some miracle we got the store open on time last November despite the insane schedule and way too little work force on the project. We actually had just 3 weeks for the actual build so naturally there have been and still are a few odds and ends that need to be sorted out. Those last 3 weeks were the toughest of my life as far as work is concerned. I was at work 17-20h a day the whole 3 weeks through. Things have calmed down now a fair bit and thankfully I no longer have to work 6 days and something like 60-80h a week that I did from October 2010 to last December. So now I have once again time to pursue my personal interests. On the photography front there have been very little happening for the reasons stated above apart from a few changes in my gear. Last year I got myself a Olympus PEN E-P1. There are a few features that bug the hell out of me but I got it for a good price and it's just so damn small that I've been able to live with them. Ended up selling my Canon gear (apart from my old FD stuff) few months ago. Wanted out of the two system trap and ended up getting rid of the bulky Canon in favor of the positively microscopic PEN. However since I'm getting into a groove a bit with photography again, those few annoyances have become a bit more than I can bear so now I'm saving up for OM-D EM-5. No way I'm going back to a DSLR. Finally on the (work related) personal side of things... Visited Japan 3 and a bit weeks ago. It was sort of a business trip but the business side of it took a half a day of the 7 day trip so... We spent 4 days in Tokyo, 2 in Kyoto and 1 in Nagoya. I absolutely loved every single second of it. I'll just absolutely have to go back sooner or later. Preferably sooner. This ended up being a damn novel. Sorry about that. In short all's well in escimoland. But yeah a second photo batch coming up soonish... In the meanwhile, tried my hand on making sigs again and found one from something like 1½ years ago that I haven't posted. There might have been a reason that I didn't post it back then but as things stand I guess I'm not really worse off posting it. Rusty escimo is being rusty. Anyway... oldie first... Now I'm going to sleep. I have an early morning tomorrow. |
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2012-03-25, 16:59 | Link #599 | |
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Northeast USA
Age: 38
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I'm glad to hear that you're doing well overall! It's impressive that you worked that hard for that long and didn't burn out. Hopefully you won't be thrust into situations that disrupt the balance of your life in the future!
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2012-03-25, 17:37 | Link #600 | ||
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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Anyway ended up getting an Olympus mainly because of the µ4/3 lenses. There are some damn good ones out there in comparison to other mirrorless cameras. (Leicas not withstanding) My current go to lens is the Panasonic 20mm F1.7. Great lens for the money. Also my old Canon FD:s work brilliantly with the PEN apart form retarded manual focus assist. Just give me a button for it, don't force me to cycle through all the display modes. (I think I did say something about a few annoyances...) Olympus 45mm F1.8 seems a brilliant piece of glass as well especially for the price. I've been lusting after the Panasonic/Leica 25mm F1.4 as well. But first things first. There's a new 4/3 to µ4/3 adapter coming out with EM-5. Don't know how much good it will do but at least it's new. As for jumping on the µ4/3 bandwagon current PENs are all somewhat OK but my guess is that the next one (which they'll inevitably release some time after the EM-5) is going to be one hell of a camera. If they end up doing what I expect them to do and slap the EM-5's sensor and AF system on it. I'm pretty sure I won't be able to resist the temptation of EM-5 since I do sort of miss having a bit more substantial camera for the occasions when I actually go out for the sole purpose of shooting stuff. Plus the EVF in it is magic! Quote:
As for thrusting myself into disrupting situations it was my own damn fault for jumping before looking but in retrospective I wouldn't be in my current position if I hadn't laid the foundations to getting my current job while working in marketing. In fact my current boss is the same I initially had in marketing and I did some few little tidbits related to my current work back then so it all ended up well. He's absolutely great guy BTW. So it really wasn't the issue in it and all the more to do with my personal frustrations and other factors within the company. Anyway it was a learning experience and a necessary interim step. I've always said that if I like where I am now, I can't have any regrets since I am the sum of my experiences. With a different cake mix the cake ends up quite different and who knows whether it'll be better or worse. |
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