2012-2022 Blog's Remains: Forgotten or anticipated changes!

 It is hard to comprehend that this blog has started its itinerancy December 9, 2012. But it is easy to understand how we became different from the beginning of this decade of blogging. For sure I was new and naive (and late) into this blog train that has been already surpassed by the Vlog tsunami that followed in different channels like YouTube. Even the venerable DPReview Web site have had to reflect that change of guard into our Web-media universe.

Photography has been a passion since my childhood, thanks to the inevitable presence of the press writing media and the magazine golden era. At that time photography was still a documentary reference of the human activity around the planet instead of the actual mainly decorative role that it has inherited from the Web and mobile networking revolution. Unconsciously all this has been reflected by the title of the blog right from the start: Back and Front the (compact) camera with Daniel M.

Speaking of the hardware-software evolution of the photographic devices, it became also very clear that the value that people is giving to the photograph in general has drastically diminished at an alarming point. Let's face it, it is not the pictures by themselves that are simply ignored but more importantly it is their subjects for what people become indifferent or insensitive and this tragic attitude is may be the real drama of our selfish society.

On a lighter point of view, I have spent a lot of money in trying different camera and lens models from various manufacturers. Like the camera conspirator sings over the Vlog channel, there is definitively no perfect camera but there is a lot of amusing ones, at least during short essays. Now we have reached a plateau of basic evolution of digital photography gear and we can speak more about refinements compare to the past big evolution step-ups of the beginnings. A personal sense of repetition has emerged and the enthusiasm frenetic level of new acquisitions is now replaced by consolidation of what we already own.

There are two important things among others that digital photography have revolutionized. First, with its more democratic access in term of owning gear and of using it, and secondly, with its facility to share the picture results through very efficient diffusion channels. In consequent, the multiplicity of image resources have certainly contributed to its depreciation over time and to its repetition (standardization) instead of the search of its originality. At the end, the photographic impact aspect has been highly commercialized in profit of the media money makers.

After ten years, there are still an interest about photography but our planet is facing a lot of challenges that will transform our behavior in the next few decades. Can photography be an instrument that will reflect that evolution by documenting it or moreover participate to its awareness, it will have to be seen in the future. Until then, stay tune here or where else!

Photo Daniel M: Olympus OM-D E-M5 III / M.Zuiko ED 14-150mm F3.5-5.6 II