12 views of Kerlingarfjöll
12px at 500px
For quite a while I’ve wanted to try the 500px photo sharing site. I’m pretty bored with Flickr, although I’ve got some friends over there, because I don’t think it presents photos very well, it’s become very cluttered, and it is very, very focused on the now. I don’t think the date I took a particular photo has much bearing on what I set out to do.
So I’ve gone back a bit and assembled a specific 12 photo portfolio looking at one specific place, Kerlingarfjöll in Iceland.
All of the photos in this set were taken with “ancient” technology, the Olympus E-1, a camera limited to 5Mpx output. And they were taken before I’d really got a grip on digital, and generally the apertures are way beyond the diffraction limit. So they’re not going to be exhibition prints.
But as an exercise in revisiting the past through a completely new portal, it’s quite interesting.
Seems a little less trivial than Flickr, somehow, and more worth putting some effort into.