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I am pretty upset as well about the stealth upgrade to Photonet. Have been a member since 2011 - now I see all of my galleries have been nuked & my images are just in a random pile. I do not have any issues with the need to upgrade the website - I understand that security holes & other things need to be fixed. [I myself have written code since the late 1970s so I totally get that.] Here is what I absolutely do not get: the arrogance of those who have chosen to inflict the changes on us. No warning. No email announcement. NADA. You could have given us some time to make screen shots of galleries etc. so we might have at least been able to salvage something from this website. And there is still no response to complaints either - so why even put it on the banner of the website. The silence has been deafening, to put it mildly. I am not sure I understand the sentiment of the thanks for 'following us to the new website'. I did not know I had a choice. Am seriously thinking of deleting my Pro account & finally creating my own photographic website. The lack of mindfulness by those who I call 'techbros' seems to be the new normal at the moment. I just deleted my Twitter account [which I have had since 2015], 1 week after Musk's disastrous takeover. It has been 3 weeks & it is slowly imploding. Then DuoLingo decided to 'upgrade' & nuke the learning profiles of all of its users - I lost what I had accumulated since 2016. I just deleted my account from there also. And now it looks like Photonet has caught the same disease... the contempt for the users of the website is really palpable.
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Of the two photos [both of which are lovely], I prefer this one. Why? Because it shows the intense concentration as the bird chooses what seed might be the most delectable... :) -Aina -
Wayne, I really like the contrasting directional lines created by the boats and the roofs - makes for a really excellent composition. The filter treatment for this image is ideal I think - because there are lots of interesting colors in the buildings & surroundings. Congrats on hitting this one out of the park! -Aina -
Apparently, the 12 year old music prodigy Mozart played to an audience for here on a visit to Italy with his father. An absolutely stunning theatre. A place to really enjoy with a camera. This pic shot from the stage - this is what he would have seen - b -
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This church is a landmark in Helsinki - it can clearly be seen from the waters of the Gulf of Finland. It is a beautiful structure - minimalism & simplicity reign inside. The place is really beautiful... -
Vincent, this one immediately caught my eye! Two reasons: 1. I really like the composition & also the detail. Very compelling. 2. At first glance at the image & I thought you had applied the digital 'Glad Wrap' filter on it. Then when I looked more closely I realized that this was not the case - the effects of that filter are much less subtle than the nice effect you have achieved here! Well done. -Aina -
Suthureyri is a fishing village in the sparsely populated, but beautiful, Westfjords of Iceland. It is a very innovative & interactive community of ~300 people that is self-sufficient because they can be completely isolated from everyone in winter - becau© AP
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Beautiful, tranquility in this fjord. Taken during midsummer.© AP
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An old settlement of turf houses from times past. Speaks to the hard life that these hardy people lived in this isolated part of the world. The turf on the roof & the walls of the houses was needed to keep out those brutal winter northerlies that blew in© AP
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Even the staircases at the Picasso Museum are works of art... -
