Christmas and Stocktaking

Dear Readers,

As Christmas is approaching and the year is closing, we take this opportunity to thank you for your regular visits during the year. May you have a Merry Christmas and a New Year filled with actions and colours!

Now, in case you're interested, here are the "stocktaking" info about GX Garnerings:

- it started a month after the purchase of Ricoh GX200 by the author in the summer of 2008;

- as of last night, GX Garnerings has recorded 205940 hits and roughly 5 000 pageviews over the past 30 days;

- this is the 885th daily post;

- the most interesting countries of visitors is "undefined" which was shown a spot in the ocean when, to tickle the curiosity, tracked down.

(a map showing the visitors' countries early this year)

- cameras field-tested and/or reviewed since the birth of GX Garnerings included Ricoh GXR full series, Panasonic GF1, Samsung NX series, EX1, Canon S95, Ricoh GX200, and GRD2 and 3;

- cameras scheduled for field tests at press time include, hopefully, Panasonic GF2, GH2, Fujifilm X100 and F300(?), and Nokton lenses for MFT (??).

With best regards,
Nevin

Comments

Marco said…

Hi Nevin,

I read your blog on a regular basis :-). Thanks for sharing all these wonderful pictures and insights.

Happy Holidays to you and your family!

Marco

24 December 2010 at 17:53

Nevin said…

Thank you, Marco. Merry Christmas to you and your family too!

(to readers: Marco's site is worthy of your visit. He is a great photographer living in Ireland. http://marcodavi.me/ )

25 December 2010 at 03:24

A Real Hero

(Grip On Reality: This photo was taken on my way to work. I was walking past trucks parking on a cul-de-sac when the ropes caught my attention. The light was right, the colour was right and the criss-crossing pattern was perfect and I held up my GX200. People passing by checked me out and wondered what could be made out of such a boring scene. To me, the fun in photography is that the photographer makes something interesting out of what is not obvious to most at the scene. The ropes tied in knots somehow reminded people I know who are in the grip of the recession) You must have also known a friend or two, or even yourself, being baffled by the spiral downturn of the economy. Bank went bankrupt and the rich was faced with a shrinking wealth. A friend of mine has just had his salary cut by over 10% and some of his colleagues started to be shed. But, wait. Was this done really for the sake of continuing the business? Or is there a factor or greed in it? I wonder whether the

New Low Prices

The window shopping some hours ago has almost provoked my AgIDS illness. Just in case you’re in Hong Kong or are coming here, and have the money to burn (All in HK$/ body only): GX200 = $3,280 GRD2 = $3,380 LX3 = $3,180 G10 = $3,280 Prices are available form a gear shop on the 1st floor of the Mongkok Computer Centre. Besides these new low prices, I found that Wing Shing Photo (55-57Sai Yeung Choi St., MK Tel: 2396 6886/ 91-95 Fa Yuen St., MK Tel: 2396 6885) is offering a Sony A700 + Carl Zeiss Lens package for HK$9,980 (hopefully, a bargain will make it some hundreds cheaper).

Eye Contact

(Leica D-lux 5) The digital era may make it easier to end up with fave shots. Even lousy photos may be turned likable after a few clicks in the post-processing workflow. But if digital advancement or amendments have any bearing on the cultivation of personal style, no photographers will need to discover his or her own photographer’s eye. Undoutedly, this is out of the question. Only with a trained photographer’s eye can we give a thinking gaze and capture an eternal moment, in our unique style. Style is the soul of a great photo. A few posts have been written in GXG to touch on the topic of photographer’s eye. Instead of finding an answer, which would require academic discussions, the posts are intended to give my general reflections and spark interests in moving towards further exploration of the topic. The posts can be viewed after the links: 1) Photographer's Eye: Storytelling 2) Photographer's Eye: Little Show of Observing 3) Photographer's Eye: Sight-Worthy 4

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