Photo 150 - a yearlong photo challenge

Sounds like you're having a good time Wetapunga!

For me, the 3 a Week are really in my system. No trouble fiding spirit, oppertunities for shooting. OK, if weather is bad for more days, shooting gets limited

As a follower and commenter of this challenge, alas too wimpy to enter this time , I would also like to comment as I am currently managing a UK meet thread where I have included real names in the listings.

As Pieter has already said, I will use a first name if it is a part of the ID (i.e. Howard_S = Howard) but if there is no name I look at a member's profile page. If their name is part of it I have assumed that they have no problem with it being used.

But now, on reflection, and especially after @Wētāpunga's comment about stalking, I am not so sure it is the right thing to do, since only a member has access to a profile page, yet anyone can read the threads and would be therefore be able to deduce the "real" name of someone. And that makes me a little bit uncomfortable.

So I shall follow this discussion with interest and hopefully will not inadvertently breach anyone's confidentiality.

Brian

I have no problem with screen names or real names, I think that's mainly a matter of personal preference of the member.

Some people have their real name written in their profile (or signature) and then I will use that when it fits. If people don't they probably have a reason for that and I will only use their screen name, even though I might know their real name from a meeting or email corrospondence.

And (almost) everybody here knows that pegelli is Pieter and I am OK with people using either of these.

My view is in the username I have! Happy with either as well.

Just a minor point perhaps, but do people prefer I use their real names or their Dyxum names in my comments about their photos in this challenge?

(I apologise for not posting a real name, but after 3+ years of active stalking involving an erotomaniac stalker some years ago, I need a bit more anonymity)

Wētāpunga wrote: I can’t see any problem with starting a bit late.

Great. Just uploaded the first pics of 2022 onto the PC. Hope to take some more today as the sun has graced us with its presence after a month of hiding.

Okay, I give in! I'll join up for this.
I have many interests and am still working past the nominal state retirement age so I have less daylight time free this time of year than some. I've also got a bit browned off with photography over the last year (hence the lack of pictures posted) but this looks like a good way of kick-starting it - if I can keep it up!

Thanks to Dcap for the idea, Pegelli for running it, and Howard_S and others for some inspiring suggestions. I'm a bit late starting so if it's acceptable, I'll have to run a bit behind until I catch up.

My thoughts are to include:-

1. Telephoto (especially the longer ones that don't get much use)

2 Prime (including macro & semi-macro)

3. Archive (previously unpublished anywhere)

I hope to include subjects I wouldn't normally take (including portraits, architecture and b/w) in order to expand my photography out of the rut it's got into lately, and to use at least one different lens each week (I'm pretty sure I have more than 50 if I include adapted lenses (I've actually reviewed 50 on Dyxum), and I can always pick images from lenses I no longer have for the archive .

The archive pics may include some early non-A/E-mount pics because I had a lot of digital compacts before getting into Sony, and some film transfers if I can get the processes sorted for print and slides. I started photography somewhere around 1970 (with a Zeiss Ikon folding camera!) and the early pics are probably not worth looking at, but we'll see. Maybe I'll include one or two b/w my father took with his Periflex and Miranda F, which will give me an excuse to look through them.
Anyway, thanks for the inspiration guys and I'll try to keep up, even if there are a few delays in posting with holidays/work issues.