PHOTOGABBLE // BLOG POST

Swings and Roundabouts.

October 29th, 2008

While I am quite tempted to fill this post with photos of just swings and roundabouts, that will have to wait until another day. Instead I am going to rant a little here about the amount of noisy feedback within the blogosphere and inherent lack of referencing within the same domain. See the above photo for example it is a really nice black and white shot of a female form within a blurry urban scene and I would be interested in finding out who took the shot to write a little more here about them and their work. However this is not possible unless my source list their source and then only if that source is the original location. I don’t have all the links I followed to get the above image but it is a good example of the noise on the Internet being that I originally found it on one tumblr post which linked to a weheartit page which linked me to yet another tumblr post. This post then didn’t reference where it got it from which left me at a dead end, it was only by chance that I discovered the same image on vi.sualize.us because it had been linked from yet another tumblr post. A useful feature of vi.sualize.us is that they also show other websites that link to the same photo and within that list was a post at ffffound. It was there that I finally received a flickr link, it was to the photo rather  than the page but using one of the online tools the final source can be found. The photographer is Sasha Nikitin and from looking at her photo stream on flickr she has a nice portfolio of work. I shall be revisiting this and some more of her photography over the coming weeks in one of the photographer features.

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Tags: noise, tumblr