Comments on: 1000 – A Thousand Beautiful Things

By: Ted

Ted — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:09:48 +0000

Overloaded with work, I've had to squirt time all over fires that were raging at my magazines so there was nothing left in the tank for much photography.

And that meant that I missed this milestone. DAMN!!!! Congrats Andreas… It is not so much that you have show the tenacity to create a thousand posts… nope… it's the quality of the posts Yeah, your work has grown… but imperceptibly because it began from such a high level.

Wonderful my friend… it's been a treat to follow along as you sparkled so consistently.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:36:31 +0000

Thanks. No, I haven't been painting. I wanted to, but I did never get over the theory phase. But at least in theory I knew exactly how to prepare your canvas, how to grind your natural pigments and with what sorts of oil to mix them.

Years later I made the same mistake again: intending to prepare background for a role playing game, I ended up reading everything that I could find about ancient history from Mesopotamia up to the Crusades, specializing in the Byzantine Empire. I guess then I knew every date and had read some pretty arcane literature. Thankfully I skipped that phase when I got to photographing

The image is made with Alien Skin Snap Art, a Photoshop plugin that converts photos into highly configurable painting-like images.

By: Ove

Ove — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:52:49 +0000

One week late, but nevertheless, congratulations to your thousand post.

I have only followed your blog the late hundreds of posts, but they have usually always been well worth the time to read and view. Like the picture in this one, really interesting and like it's been painted; I must say I really loves it. Have you ever been painting, I get the impression you have?

Hope you find inspiration for another thousand great posts!

Cheers!

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:29:53 +0000

Andreas, I have to say that I enjoyed your book. I do understand what you mean about letting it just happen, letting it flow and fit together, almost unconsciously. It is somewhat like using active imagination as a way of uncovering some of the hidden gems within.

I also used Blurb for my sofobomo book and am very pleased with it – well with them (two books). One is the small square (7×7) and the other is landscape (8×10). Like yourself, it is important to be able to hold them and get comfortable with them. Any bigger and it would be about my ego, not about the work.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:22:04 +0000

Congrats, Andreas!!! 1,000! That's quite a number. I've still got 10 to go to get to 900, then another 100 after that!

That's some kind of dedication!

By: Bill Birtch

Bill Birtch — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:04:37 +0000

Congratulations, that is indeed a notable milestone on your photographic journey. The fact that you are able to maintain such a high level of excellence day after day continues to amaze and inspire me.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:06:34 +0000

Congratulations!!

A thousand pictures is certainly something. I was and still am always more than impressed by the standard at which you are able to keep your daily photos.

I can really imagine that it feels swell - even more so when you can look back and actually have enjoyed the journey.

Some time you should put together a book with the 42 most remarkable photos of those 1000. Just a a kind of retrospective exhibition for all of us... I would enjoy that!

Congrats again - and looking forward to the next kilo!

Thomas

By: Glen Goffin

Glen Goffin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:19:28 +0000

WOW … many congratulations! Another accomplishment you didn't mention is that you encouraged and mentored people like me along the way. Thanks for 1000 posts and looking forward to the next 1000! Peace, Glen

By: Andreas

Andreas — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:54:47 +0000

Thanks everybody.

Niels, this was a good one. I read the comment and was completely flabbergasted. It did not make sense at all, but obviously was not SPAM either YMMD

By: My Camera World

My Camera World — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:32:24 +0000

Sorry for the pervious miss post, old copy function, please delete

Andreas:

A very big congratulations on reaching the 1,000 mark and an even big thanks for demonstrating your persistence and the daily photographic posts.

Sometimes I aspire to a project of a photo-a-day bit deep down in my heart I know it won’t work, as many other things seem to get in the way.

I also enjoyed going through your book very much as you sowed me how the every day and ordinary can be interesting.

One of my favorites was the sails (page 98)

Niels Henriksen