Nina's Blog - Wednesday 21st May 2025

@22Michelle You have to post more pictures! I currently have 11 rejected out of 215. But I delete half a dozen and upload half a dozen almost every day. So in the last year I have uploaded about 2 000 pictures and perhaps 20 have been rejected, say one percent. This one was a surprise to me because to me I look clearly male in it. Most of the other rejected images are rear views without my face being visible, then it's a bit more understandable that they can't be sure.

@ninalanyon You're right. I do need to post more pics, but I want them to be more interesting. Not just me flashing my lingerie and / or funbits standing next to a radiator or some such thing. Got to get back into taking more photographs. Strangely, the easier it has become to take photogrsphs the less I'm taking. I took more photographs back when I was using a 35mm and real film. The more it was a challenge the more motivated I was.

@22Michelle I think it's easier for me as I'm on my own. I can behave as eccentrically as I like without needing to consider anyone else!

@ninalanyon I used to be quite an enthusiastic, though not that skilled, photographer. I still have a 35mm Nikon I bought back in the 1970's. As I say, as it all got easier and electronic, I seem to have lost my enthusiasm. Thinking about though I recall that even back then my least favourite subject was me.

@22Michelle The advent of high pixel count digital cameras has made it practical to take video instead of using a self timer. That means I don't need to concentrate on it so much; I just set the camera running, walk back and forth, strike a pose or two. Then I just pick out a few of the least ridiculous looking frames. My mobile videos at 1920x1080 (2 MP) resolution which is plenty good enough for posting on SW.

When I started taking pictures dressing and taking pictures I used the self timer but it was such a tedious and error prone business that I didn't take many pictures.

I used to have a quite nice Pentax with a Sigma zoom lens that I bought in Hong Kong in the 80s. But I always found that the effort required to take a good picture and the weight of the camera was almost more than it was worth. Then one day I was in a cafe in a shopping centre in Krakow and I left it behind hanging on the chair. Of course when i got back to the cafe only minutes later there was no sign of it.

I never bought another film camera, instead I bought an early HP digital. It was a much worse camera but it being able to take almost unlimited shots while weighing only a quarter of what the Pentax plus Sigma did and being small enough to fit in a, large, pocket meant that a lot more pictures got taken.

Now I have a quite nice Sony 20 MP ultrazoom compact. But I hardly ever use it because the immediacy of my mobile makes posting pictures online so easy. To post a picture from the Sony I have to connect it to my computer to unload the pictures first which is just tedious.