Thomas Pindelski
Photographs, Photographers and Photography discusses photography in all its guises with an emphasis on the art of making photographs.
Comments and spam: The goal of this site is not only to air my thoughts, but also to provide a medium for discussion of photography.
In that vein, your comments are invited. If you want examples of the sort of garbage that will get you a permanent place on the spam list whence you will never be heard from again, just check here. And it gets even better for spammers. Not only will the spammer be permanently banned from posting here, his contact information will also be placed in a global database so that future attempts to soil other sites with spam will also be automatically trapped and deleted. Consider it my little service to the blogging community.
Provided that your comment is on topic, adding value or original thoughts to the discussion, it will be approved and published. If the comment is irrelevant it will simply be deleted, but not treated a spam. Comments referencing your photography web site or photography-oriented blog are fine. Any comment which is an attempted conduit to your commercial site will be deleted.
Ethics: I do not accept money from anyone with regards to this site. My photography books sell at cost. I do frequently own stock in some public companies whose products I mention here, because I both like the prospect of making money on the stock and like and/or use the companies’ products. I pay for all my equipment with my money and say what I believe, not what someone pays me to say.
To put this in perspective, I use hardware mostly from Canon, Panasonic, Apple, Samsung and Hewlett Packard, though I am manufacturer-agnostic, using whatever works best for me. Ten years ago it was Leica, Rollei, Epson and Kodak. For picture processing I use software mostly from Adobe. I have on various occasions owned - or currently own - stock in Apple and Hewlett Packard. New equipment and supplies are invariably purchased from B&H Photovideo in New York, where my status is solely one of satisfied customer.
Copyright: Images displayed on this site take three forms: Book covers, where no attribution is necessary as it’s self evident and my mention here only helps sell the book. Images by other photographers to which I add a Copyright display. If any photographers or their executors have an issue with this please let me know and I will remove the image. However, do realize that this site is strictly not for profit, so any display of other photographers’ images benefits them, not me. And finally, images taken by me which are my copyright; no permission is given to reproduce these without my written approval (which may well not be granted), which must be obtained in advance of use. These images are not in the public domain and illegal use will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Email: You can email me by clicking here. If your email is interesting and contains new thinking, I reserve the right to post it as part of a journal entry, and your name will not be published.