Light Bulb Contest Winners

So, it’s been ages since I’ve been active. I had lots of stress during the last months and I wanted to RESTART this blog again.

I’m starting with some unusual stuff.  I’ve been holding a contest on DeviantArt lately and I wanted to feature the wonderful winners. The winners are no photographers, they do gorgeous photomanipulations. That’s what makes this post so special.

CLICK ON THE IMAGES TO BE DIRECTED TO THE DEVIATION PAGES AT DEVIANTART.COM

So here is the gorgeous 1rst Place:

Soul of Thoughts

Snow White's true story

Dream come true

 

Amazing 2nd Place:

wisp

 

Fabulous 3rd Place:

. vessel

 

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advertising a fall contest

I’m writing this cause I wanted to advertise a contest held by one of my partner blogs lombaseggel.de. The contest is about fall. If you send in a fall themed picture until December 1rst you could win a gift coupon from top-fotoleinwand.de.

For more informations have a look here –> fall contest

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Stripes on you

I had a lot of stress cause university just started one month ago so I had nearly no time for internet and no time for my blog. So this is kind of a welcome back feature to myself :D
I always loved stripes so here are some awesome stripe pictures.

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Flowers2 © MATZU – visit her on flickr

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My edge © santiago-simple – visit his DeviantArt profile

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154© Donotl – visit her DeviantArt profile

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Emel I© Ilker Dogan – visit his homepage

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Wasting Time© Lina Tesch – visit her DeviantArt profile

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....... © livedogan – visit his DeviantArt profile

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Flash Homepage for Dummies

I recently created a new homepage that contains my portfolio, means my best pictures and some info about me.

Click here and see my super amazing homepage. :D

I always wanted to have a flash homepage but I was too untalented, too impatient to finish one with a software for pros. Some time ago I saw that add on some site that said “create your own free flash website”. You know what people say about adds, banners on other sites. I dared to click the banner and the site wix.com appeared. I put the site into my bookmarks and it remained in my bookmarks for the next 3 or 4 months. Then I visited the site again and finally created an account. I browsed some example websites and started making my own then. I was really surprised how easy it was to add pictures, slideshows …

Wix Logo© wix.com

I’m very happy with this site and in my opinion it’s a good free alternative for photographers instead of using any expensive software.

I wanted to list some pros and cons for photographers.

Pros

  • it’s free
  • no need to download something
  • the site comes in different languages
  • you can use one of many available designs
  • you can also create your totally own design
  • you have the possibility to upgrade and use more features
  • your site will be a flash homepage :D
  • you can use many different widgets (Twitter, …)
  • you can use slideshows
  • you can choose from lots of different shapes, cliparts, …
  • the editor is really easy to work with (Drag & Drop)

Cons

  • the site is sometimes very slow because it’s flash
  • the site does not work in Opera
  • your homepage will mostly don’t work in Opera
  • there is the Wix logo at the bottom of your homepage
  • at first sight the editor looks confusing
  • sometimes the editor has long loading times when you jump from site to site
  • for some extras you have to pay

I’m sure there are more pros and cons but these are the most important ones and the ones that came into my mind.

I don’t want to advertise the site or something and I’m not getting payed to write about it. I just made good experiences with it and thought I could share them with you.

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Hard life of a Farmer

I’m always totally amazed when I see how photographers document simple life of farmers. I saw many gorgeous snapshots of real life. Here are some examples for great captures of simple life.

I did not take the following pictures. I’m just featuring this great pieces. Click on the images to get to the original ones.

Angon © by mrizalcs – visit his DeviantArt profile

Indonesian farmer

© by Muchamad Noor Eva A – visit his website

Sunset Farmer I
© by Arnold Parsaulian Pasaribu – visit his website

The farmer
© by penoza – visit his website

Farmer
© by mughost – visit his website

Farmer
© by yuniarko – visit his DeviantArt profile

Lady Farmer of Korzok
© by Poras Chaudhary – visit his website

Farming is essential for our economy and for our life. We should all honor this hard working people for what they do.

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