Shutter-life|Adaptive photography and more, by Henrik Johansson

Yesterday was a great day. First, the photo above received the first fave100-award on Zooomr for reaching 100 favs. While I really like the photo, I never imagined that it would be this popular. Next, Thomas Hawk published a link to the photo on FriendFeed. On FriendFeed it got quite a lot of likes and a number of people started to subscribe to my feed. Back on Zooomr, the photo gained over twenty new favs. The current tally is up to 126, amazing!

Early evening, I got a mail from Photrade telling me that someone had left a comment on one of my photos. Photrade is a photosharing site where you can sell your photos and you also get a part of the site’s ad revenue. Since a couple of people on Zooomr had uploaded photos to Photrade, I uploaded some as well last weekend. However, I didn’t check out the site and I don’t know much about it or their business plan. I logged in to check on the comment, and man was I surprised! Photrade had selected one of my photos as their “Featured photo of the week“. They had also made a very nice write-up about the photo. I didn’t see this one coming at all, a very nice surprise!

The only bad thing of the day was the announcement of the Nikon D700. Why must I be shooting Canon?

Welcome to shutter-life. This is the place where I, Henrik Johansson, will write about my photography. I plan to not only publish photos, my aim is to also tell the story behind them. I feel that this aspect is often missing in many photo blogs. When I see an incredible photograph, a number of questions immediately pop up. Where and when was the photo taken? How was it taken?  How did the photographer think before the shot? How was the photo post processed?  That are questions like these I’ll try to answer when I post.

Enjoy!