lieve lezers van dit bescheiden blogje, ja ik schrijf af en toe (ongeveer 1 per blog) een dikke dt fout. Ik doe mijn best om er geen te schrijven en alhoewel ik redelijk begaafd ben, door mijn universiteitsjaren ben geraakt zonder bissen, slaag ik er maar niet in dt-loos te schrijven. Het is vaak door mijn enthousiasme, snel schrijven en meerdere dingen tegelijk doen dat de fouten erin sluipen. Dus taalpuristen, sorry als jullie bij het lezen van mijn blogje spontaan jullie haar willen uittrekken (jawel, ook jij lieve schat) maar er zullen altijd fouten in blijven staan. Maar op deze manier kunnen jullie je tevens elke keer verkneukelen over de fout die jullie hebben gevonden Dus, let the search begin!

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Dear Stock Photography Professionals, Amateur Photographers, Illustrators and Graphic Designers

“Success” is relative …

It was just over two years ago I started to research how to sell my photography when I caught “The Bug” to start selling my images online. In September of 2007 I decided to dedicate two years to explore the possibilities of the incredible world of stock photography. I felt that two years would be enough time to give me a chance to sink my teeth into training myself from any and all sources and to get up to speed, starting basically from scratch, on this rapidly expanding and growing industry. At the time I had never even picked up a photography book or taken a photoshop tutorial. It is now two years later, and while I feel I have come very far and achieved many successes, I find that there is always more to learn. I absolutely love this work !

In July of 2007 I relocated to Washington State after accepting a transfer to work at The Boeing Company’s Commercial Airplane Headquarters in Renton, Washington just outside of Seattle, Washington. Analyzing Market Research was my specialty. Driving out to Washington from Colorado during the course of my relocation I captured a few thousands pictures on a Canon SD750 camera. At that time I was interested in seeing if I could market my images by selling prints of them at festivals, art shows and galleries. It was during this period of research that I discovered the world of commercial stock photography.

My first site that I was approved as a contributor at was BigStockPhoto in September of 2007. For that reason alone I will always have a special place in my heart for them. I found that their entry criteria was not as strict as some of the larger sites. The same applies for 123rf so these are both excellent places to get your first exposure to in selling your photography online. That being said you will want to get into Shutterstock and iStockPhoto as soon as possible. This took me many months to achieve as I was starting from nearly complete scratch with the exception of strong information technology background. FYI: Recently BigStockPhoto was acquired by the subscription based microstock giant Shutterstock .

Stock Photography Sites are often referred to by short abbreviations. It was more than a little confusing to myself when I first started researching microstock on the various forums so I will list a few abbreviations that you may find useful to know your first time encountering them:

• SS = Shutterstock
• IS = iStockPhoto
• DT = Dreamstime
• FT = Fotolia
• BSP = BigStockPhoto
• MP = MostPhotos
• BME = Best Month Ever
• WME = Worst Month Ever
• BDE = Best Day Ever
• MSG = Microstock Group
• EL = Extended License
• RF = Royalty Free
• Glass = Camera Lens for a DSLR Camera ex. Canon 55-250 IS
• IS = Image Stabilization

My first sale came from the second site that I was approved at as a contributor which was Dreamstime. I initially sought out DT during a time when BigStockPhoto was halting uploading over the weekends. This is just one small example of the kind of roadblocks one faces when it comes to trying to build up an approved portfolio at a microstock agency.

At its most basic level, getting started in microstock photography are just a few simple steps …

• Check-out the various stock photography links on this blog
• Browse the microstock sites and become familiar and get a feel for the photography on them
• Prepare 3-10 of your best images in accordance to the respective standards of the site you wish to join
• Submit your applications to become a contributor (a.k.a photographer) and get approved to contribute
• Shoot Pictures. Post Process Images in Photoshop. Upload Photos to all sites for review. Repeat.
• Collect the revenue from sales made each month across all sites over the years for the life of the image. Large subscription based sites such as Shutterstock will ultimately produce daily sales for you after your portfolio of approved images grows to a modest size of a few hundred images however credit based sale sites such as iStockPhoto will yield higher commissions at a much slower rate. There is constant debate over which is best. Most stock photographers submit all of their work to each of the most profitable microstock sites.
• Receive your payout after reaching a threshold for each respective site. (ex. $50, $75, $100)

I believe a quick recap of where my interest in photography as a child came from will prove insightful to some readers …

Photography had been an interest of mine since I first began taking snapshot photos with “hand me down” cameras from my parents I was about 9 or 10 years old. It was probably around 1979-1981 ish when I first started using 110 film cameras that I usually borrowed from my mother. The first camera that I actually owned was a Polaroid One Step instant camera. I remember having to pay for my own film. Early on I mowed lawns and later on I worked for the family gas station starting at the age of 10 working for $2.00 / hour. At the very least I know I was responsible for paying for the cartridges of film which were very expensive for around ten photos if I remember correctly. This limited my picture taking ability as I was saving up to pay my way for a $750.00 30-Day bus tour trip across the country with the Boy Scouts to the National Jamboree in Virginia in 1981. Since the film for my camera was so expensive my mother allowed me to borrow her new at the time Sony Disc Camera. I took both cameras on my 30-day bus tour “Reunion with History” to the Jamboree.

The Statue of Liberty was getting a makeover during our tour but it was still amazing and one of my favorite subjects. However, when I went to the top of the “Twin Towers” World Trade Center, that was my favorite scene. The bridges and skyscrapers of New York City fostered my love for architecture and structures which I later studied at length. I plan to dig up a couple of those first photos of mine from that trip, scan them, and post them here as a point-of-reference …

(insert to post scanned photos from 1981)

TIMELINE FOR KEY EVENTS THAT HAD AN IMPACT ON MY STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY:

1981 “Reunion With History” 30-Day Bus Tour of various historical sites of United States with Boy Scouts. Kodak Disc Camera borrowed from parents when I was 12 years old.

1985 Exposure to Mac Paint Graphic Programs on first Macintosh which parents bought

1986 Drafting  1,2,3 Architecture & Architecture Classes

1999 First Photoshop and Image Ready exposure working with web design.

2000 Graduate University of Phoenix Bachelor of Science in Business  Major: Information Systems

2005 May Bought Digital Camera: Canon SD750

2007 July: Relocate to Washington State road trip from Colorado

2007 July: Research Selling Prints / Selling digital files online

2007 July: Research Selling digital negative files

2007 September: Accepted into BSP

2007 October: Accepted into DT / Forum participation

2007 November: Thanksgiving Day 2007 was my 1st Microstock Sale at DT

2007 November: Accepted into Fotolia . BME across all sites.

2007 November: Joined Microstock Group Forum (MSG)

2007 November: 1st SS Application Rejected

2007 November: Read Photography & Photoshop Books. Study free tutorials from The MIZ and many others.

2007 December: Join Featurepics.

2007 December: Make plans to buy my first DSLR camera by April or May 2008. New BME across all sites.

2007 December: Bus Travel  from Seattle Washington to Denver capturing many photos on this journey. Caught severe flu and ear infections after many winter travel related delays in terminals and such. Took me out of action for most of January and the first part of February …

Illness contracted from December / January travel …

2008 January: New BME across all sites. Stock sales happen even when your down and out sick …

2008 February: Joined MostPhotos . Joined Zymmetrical.

2008 February:  BME’s at DT, BSP, SXP, Met stock photographer suwanneeredhead (Stacey Lynn Brown) through interactions as two of the first few Americans on MP . New BME across all sites.

2008 March: set-up first home studio. Continue to improve work for next SS and IS applications as these are the two largest revenue producing sites for a microstock photographer

2008 March: BMEs at DT, FT, 123RF, MP . New BME across all sites. 5th BME in a row.

Got my first DSLR …

2008 April: Buy first DSLR:  a used Canon Rebel XTI a.k.a 400D continue to shoot and begin working with fractals for part of my SS applications.  Not a BME … streak broken …

2008 May: Accepted into Shutterstock the last week of the month after two many applications to count.

2008 May: BME at DT.

2008 June: BME’s at SS, BSP, 123RF, MP. First Full month of Revenue from SS. New BME across all sites.

2008 July: BME’s at DT, BSP, FP, FT       WME at 123RF

2008 Sep:  September 25th propose marriage to suwanneereadhead (Stacey Lynn Brown)

2008 Oct:  Mark Payne (mwp1969) & Stacey Lynn Brown (suwanneeredhead) married in Seattle, Washington

2008 Oct: First Extended License Sale on SS (this must’ve been a wedding gift)

2008 Dec:  Canon 55-250 IS lens received as Christmas gift from my beloved wife

2009 April: Accepted into iStockPhoto

2009 May: Upgrade to DSLR Canon Rebel XSI a.k.a Canon 450D

2009 June: Began doubling and tripling my upload efforts to all of of the sites I contribute to …

2009 October: BME for number of sales at DT. Close to BME at SS & IS

2009 Nov: Achieve next level raise at SS . Best Month Ever (BME) at both SS & IS

Disadvantages of Microstock Photography / Be Prepared For:

1. Application Rejections
2. Image Rejections
3. Disappointment
4. Delays
5. “F5 Disease”
6. Rule Changes
7. Upload Limits
8. Commission Reductions
9. Forum naysayers. There is almost always at least one in every crowd …
10. Computer Crashes: Back-up, Back-up, Back-up !
11. Broken Cameras
12. …

Advantages of Microstock Photography / Be Excited About:

1. Create a Residual Income Stream Working Primarily from Home !
2. Set your own hours !
3. You decide what to photograph in your photo shoots: Studio, Models, Landscapes, Nature, Objects etc.
4. Make money from an existing hobby or even take it to the next level professionally
5. Earn money while your sick or even sleeping !
6. Earn money for the life of the image.
7. For the most part … do the work once, upload the image to 6-15 sites, and sell sell sell
8. Small start-up costs relative to other types of business ventures
9. Be your own boss !
10. Microstock Community !

Required Equipment:

1. DSLR camera. Having this immediately will greatly improve your chances of getting it SS & IS
2. Best Glass you can afford. A combination of 18-55, 50  and 55-250 range will get you started.
3. Desktop Computer with the fastest internet connection you can afford: Broadband, Cable etc.
4. Adobe Photoshop
5. External Computer Drives for Storage and Back-Ups. Terrabyte drives have come down to less than $135
6. Large Monitors for your desktop. Larger the better. Be sure and calibrate them.
7. Tripod
8. Extra Batteries for your camera
9. Large CF or SD memory cards for your Camera. Have at least two. Faster the better.
10. …

Still Developing Timeline and Blog … PLEASE CHECK BACK SOON

I am always happy to help a newbie try to break into stock photography by submitting their work for sale online. I offer my own  trials and tribulations to you so that you might be able to avoid some of  them yourself. Thank you in advance for checking out my image and design portfolios.

If your interested in submitting your own images and want to try and get started right away  you can do so through the links I have provided below.  These links will help you get started with some of the most favorable and profitable microstock photography sites. The commissions from the sale of your own images will pay you again and again for the rest of the life of the image so delaying your decision to start by a day only delays your getting paid by a day down the road.

Best of Luck !

Microstock Photography Websites:

http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery.mhtml?id=144463

http://www.dreamstime.com/Mwp1969_info

http://www.istockphoto.com/mwp1969

http://www.123rf.com/profile_markpayne

http://us.fotolia.com/partner/200479231

http://www.bigstockphoto.com/?refid=HW16kzhvJX

Midstock Photography Sites:

http://www.mostphotos.com/mwp1969

Our Website:

www.PayneImages.com

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Metronomy – Do The Right Thing (Wild Geese Remix)
M – Pop Muzik (Todd Terje Remix)
Tensnake – Can U Feel It
DJ Sprinkles – Grand Central (Motor City Drum Remix)
Hugo – There Is A Place
Groove Armada – I Won’t Kneel (No Brainer and Mouj Mix)
? – You (Kleine Musik Mix)
Worthy – 8 By 8
Luomo – Tessio (Ramon Tapia Remix)
The Juan McLean - Happy House (VHS/Beta Mix)
Henrik Schwarz – Back to Black

T-Mobile, the Deutsche Telekom-owned cellular carrier in America, is a failure and an abject one at that. The firm lost 77,000 subscribers in the third quarter. Most analysts blame the attrition on a poor line-up of handset products and tremendous competition from Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ)(NYSE:VOD) and AT&T (NYSE:T). Each of the two larger companies added over one million customers in the quarter ending September 30.

T-Mobile has 33.4 million customers in the US and its chances of doing well as the No.4 firm in its sector are fading to nothing.

T-Mobile’s only chance of being viable is if it is part of  a larger carrier. Sprint needs it the most. It has slightly less than 50 million customers making it smaller than AT&T and Verizon Wireless. Combined with T-Mobile, its subscriber count would be competitive with the other two companies.

Deutsch Telekom would do better owning a piece of Sprint as a proxy for its future success even if it had to put some cash into a deal for Sprint to take its T-Mobile customers.

The argument against a  business combination is simple. Integrating two carrier platforms is complex. The favorable reason for a transaction is that Sprint will be first to market with a new 4G technology–WiMax. That ultra-fast wireless system could pull in new customers or Sprint and T-Mobile.  Sprint already has the support of Clearwire (NASDAQ:CLWR) and tech giants including Intel (NASDAQ:INTC).

T-Mobile has no future. WiMax does.

Douglas A. McIntyre

Universidad de Chile, actual campeón del fútbol chileno, perdió su posibilidad de revalidar el título y hace un par de horas quedó eliminada de la Copa Nissan Sudamericana…Varios pueden ser catalogados como los culpables, pero sólo uno (y con justa razón) vislumbra como el gran perjudicado.

Por Jaime Herrera

Primero que todo, permítanme agradecer públicamente la posibilidad que se me ha otorgado de formar parte del staff de La Redonda Emoción, labor que realizaré con el mejor de los gustos. Bueno, tras esa breve introducción, es necesario pasar a lo esencial de esta columna: descuerar a uno de los grandes culpables de la debacle azul, José Horacio Basualdo.

Muchos dirán “el técnico no juega”, frase a la que le encuentro mucho de cierto; especialmente cuando se ve a un equipo sin ideas, que no corre y que no puede dar más de dos pases buenos a la vez. Sin embargo, en esta ocasión el estratego azul pecó en apectos que determinaron la fuerte baja futbolística que sufrió progresivamente la U.

En primer lugar y fuera de lo futbolístico como tal, se “destaca”  lo poco oportuno de sus declaraciones. Basualdo sin ganar absolutamente nada como técnico apenas llegó al caracol comenzó a criticar gratuitamente la labor de Hugo Tocalli, con lo cual parte su trabajo dejando una sensación extraña en el medio futbolístico. También en esto se pueden mencionar sus críticas públicas a los jugadores tras el clásico con Colo Colo, las cuales fueron hechas cuando aún la calentura del partido estaba a flor de piel, violando eso que se conoce como “códigos de camarín”: Mal. Cosas como estas confabulan contra la motivación del plantel y desencadenan conflictos internos impropios de un equipo que desea pelear cosas importantes.

En segundo lugar, es inapropiado que el técnico se ausente en los entrenamientos de su equipo cuando se está con la imperiosa necesidad de sumar puntos,  y si a eso le sumamos que ni siquiera existió una debida explicación de parte de Basualdo, se torna todo peor. De hecho, el plantel se molestó por esto y la tensión continuó en crecimiento: malísimo.

Ya en el fútbol, se nota que al Pepe le falta rodaje aún. Está bien darle oportunidades a los jugadores jóvenes del equipo; tarde o temprano deben explotar… ¡¡Pero hay que elegir bien aquellas instancias hombre!! Un superclásico 1 a 0 abajo no es la oportunidad para lanzar a la cancha a Miguel Coronado como salvador, y los cuartos de final de la Sudamericana contra Fluminense, en idénticas condiciones de marcador ( lo que significaba la eliminación directa del certámen) no es la ocasión propicia para hacer jugar a Mauricio Gómez, promesa (o promesita) eterna de la U.  Ahí es cuando se necesita inteligencia Basualdo: tienes en la banca a un hombre que no luce, como Manuel Villalobos, pero tiene más experiencia que los dos recién nombrados juntos. Quizá el ex Ñublense no hubiese sido el salvador de la noche, pero hubiese dejado un mejor sabor de boca en los hinchas que esperaban a un jugador que supiera de presión y que ya hubiese tenido partidos verdaderamente importantes en el cuerpo. En síntesis, horrible.

Y finalmente, la escazes de autocrítica. Pepe, tarde o temprano, los errores deben ser asumidos, pues las cosas caen por su propio peso. Que yo recuerde (y corríjanme por favor si me equivoco), jamás en una conferencia de prensa realizó un mea culpa tras un mal planteamiento o un mal cambio. Errar es humano, y reconocer que se erró es dar un gran paso a la solución de los problemas, pero si no eres capaz de reconocer que te equivocaste en algo, constantemente reincidirás en lo mismo, hasta que la paciencia se agotará.

Jose Horacio Basualdo buscó ser el Borghi de la U, es decir, un tipo canchero, con los pantalones bien puestos para decir y hacer lo que estimaba conveniente para el bien del equipo, sin embargo apenas alcanzó a ser un símil de Maradona a cargo de la albiceleste: un completo desastre. Váyase Pepe, váyase.

So, I’ve been on an extended break due to traveling for weddings and a few nagging injuries from trying to be an intramural sports hero.  Also been scarfing any and all autumn comestibles within a 30 mile radius (mostly donuts and cider and at least a Radio Flyer’s worth of Halloween candy), so I’ve got a fair amount of work to do.  I got back from a trip to England last week and completed my final elements session and I am finally ready and willing to hit the box on a regular basis.

Monday was my first WOD in over a month and my second unrestricted WOD ever (I did a modified Fight Gone Bad after one of my elements sessions but was told to keep my reps strictly in the 12-15 range lest I be the first CrossFitter at my box to keel over and die and really test the legal force of the waiver I signed).

I’ve never done much Olympic weightlifting.  As a teenager I basically followed the herd and did a lot of bench press and squats so I could impress the girls at summer camp during the shirtless post-swim arts & crafts session.  So like many other CrossFitters I also have very little sense of the relationship between the amount of weight that’s comfortable to lift 5-10 times and the amount that one can reasonably expect to lift 50-100 times over the course of a WOD while maintaining proper form.  This kind of self-awareness simply requires more time spent in the gym doing the workouts with the weights, and until that time I really just have to ask the coaches before each new workout what they recommend I use.  I had no idea that the Rx’d version of Monday’s workout required using 155 pounds on the bar.  In fact, the only person in my 10-15 person class who looked like he was using that much weight was a total beast.  The kind of athlete who when he’s doing that skipping/jumping warm-up across the gym is jumping nearly twice as high as most people with minimal effort.  The sort of guy so used to workouts of this intensity that he frequently wears a knitted hat and a full sweatsuit while doing the WOD.  And doesn’t seem to sweat at all. Ever.

Anyways, I ended up using 95 lbs on the WOD, which was:

DT

Five rounds for time of:

Deadlift, 12 reps
Hang power clean, 9 reps
Push jerk, 6 reps

I finished in 11:33, I believe, which was ahead of most everybody else in my class except a scrawny teenager using even less weight than I was.  It was clear this wasn’t exactly an impressive feat, and I felt vaguely guilty walking around huffing and puffing while the rest of the class struggled to complete in the maximum allowed time of 15 minutes.   This WOD, and presumably nearly every WOD for the next month or two, reinforced one of the things I really like about CrossFit so far: it’s incredibly humbling without being demoralizing.  Between the encouragement of the coaches and the good-natured competition with the rest of the class, there’s much more of a team vibe to these workouts than I was expecting.  I assume that when I’m in classes with more guys with no necks that things might change a bit, but the classes I’ve attended so far are perfectly calibrated to get you charged up about doing your best without making you feel like a total jackass if you literally fall on your face or have to use less weight.

Markets in Asia were mixed.

The Nikkei fell 1.3% to 9,747. Sony (NYSE:SNE) fell.

The Hang Seng was down .6% to 21,479.

The Shanghai Composite rose .7% to 3,156.

At the open in Europe, the FTSE was down .9% to 5,059. The Dax dropped 1.2% to 5,381. Deutsche Telekom (NYSE:DT) rose. The CAC 40 was off 1.1% to 3,631. BNP Paribas (NYSE:BNP) was up.

Data from Reuters and MarketWatch.

Douglas A. McIntyre

Ingen kan skada som TT. När någon på TT:s redaktion skickar ut en text hamnar den i ett slag på tiotals eller till och med hundratals nätsidor för tidningar runt om i landet. Den går dessutom ofta in i papperstidningarna oförändrad eller enbart kortad. Därför kan TT i ett slag nå ut över hela landet med en riktigt idiotisk rubrik. Vilket de passar på att göra idag. Vill man veta exakt på hur bred front skadan sker kan man klicka här eller kolla länkarna sist i inlägget.

TT har skrivit en artikel om olika värderingar som Nyamko Sabuni anser att nyanlända ska få lära sig. (Fast det tycks inte bli obligatoriskt att gå utbildningen av artikeln att döma, så skillnaden borde bli liten mot idag med tanke på att många kommuner redan erbjuder kurser i samhällsorientering).

Rubriken är “Invandrare ska lära sig våra värden”. (Min kursivering). Det spelar egentligen ingen roll om det var TT:s reporter Owe Nilsson själv eller någon annan på TT som satte rubriken. Den har garanterat korrlästs utan att någon reagerat innan man tryckt på “send” ut till tusentals läsare.

Varför blev det såhär? Kan det vara för att det på TT finns en undermedveten konsensus om vilka som kvalar in i uttrycket “vi”, i rubrikens ”våra värderingar”?

För det är ju det som är problemet med rubriken, för den som inte redan greppat det. Man använder uttrycket “våra” om ett “vi” där invandrarna uppenbarligen inte ingår eftersom det är dem man speglar sig mot.

Det finns, vadå, uppåt en miljon invandrare i Sverige? Men dessa anses tydligen inte ingå i det “vi” som är TT:s läsekrets eftersom texten ställer “våra” värderingar mot “invandrarnas”. Invandrarna ingår inte i “vi” utan är “dom”. Hade det stått “nyanlända” hade det kanske blivit mer förståeligt. TT måste fundera kring vilka de tror egentligen läser deras texter.

Varför har svenska journalister så förbaskat svårt att få det rätt så fort det ska skrivas om invandring? Rubriken kunde ha varit tagen direkt ur SD-kuriren, i enlighet med principerna om att “vi” - de etniska svenskarna, alltså sådana som TT:s redaktion och önskeläsare - har andra värderingar än “dom”, invandrarna, och att personer som vandrat hit i något skede aldrig kan kvala in i “vi”.

Vad skulle det ha stått då? Ja, av den knasiga formuleringen kan man gissa att TT-redaktionen funderat ett tag för att undvika att skriva “Invandrare ska lära sig svenska värderingar”. Det är såklart alldeles riktigt tänkt för vad tusan är en svensk värdering eller sedvänja? Förkärlek för midvinterblot? Prioriterandet av sanslös berusning på midsommarafton? Frekvent utnyttjande av aborträtten? Skilsmässa?

Ett mer träffande rubrikförslag som dessutom inte spelar Nyamko Sabunis valfläsk i händerna: “Nya invandrare ska lära sig mer om Sverige“. Det var nämligen så SVT satte en rubrik till TT:s text. Men eftersom detta redan sker idag hade ju rubriken blivit mindre sexig så. På ett annat ställe på SVT.se är TT-rubriken dock tyvärr kvar. 

Med tanke på att TT:s text gick ut vid 20-tiden har många redaktioner fortfarande bemanning då  och kan inte skylla på någon form av autopilot eller outsourcad webbservice. Å andra sidan, kan de någonsin det?

För att visa vilket genomslag en TT-rubrik kan ha så länkar vi här till ett urval av alla de texter på nätet som “smittats” av TT:s rubrik utan att någon har tänkt efter. I vissa fall har man ändrat något annat ord i rubriken, men inte ordet “våra”.

DN SvD Sydsvenskan VK Ystads allehanda Piteå-tidningen HD notisen DT Bygg Skåne Barometern

…utöver ett antal rasistiska bloggar som tycker att rubriken är självklar men som vi inte tänker bevärdiga med länkar.

Pingat på intressant.

KM

Uppdatering: En diskussion har uppstått på DI.se börssnack där en av debattörerna instämmer i det problematiska med uttrycket “våra värderingar” eftersom han knappast delar värderingar med Sverigedemokraterna. Ingår de också i TT:s “vi?”

Vi i Sverige är inne på samma spår.

Uppdatering 2: Vi har upptäckt att Quick response (R.I.P) gjorde en grej om detta för sex år sedan. Har inget förändrats? (“TT kritiseras för segregation“)

Då har turen kommit till person nummer 3 – sist men inte minst!  Lotta/Maxell är en person som jag beundrat länge, är sååå glad för att hon tackat JA till att vara DT här! Varmt välkommen MAXELL!

Maxells första DT-alster blir själva presentationsbilden:

Detaljer:

Man kan ha julpapper till mycket, inte bara jul, eller hur? Material från butiken är papper från BG Eskimo Kisses, bokstäver från BG Ambrosia och ADORNit Tiny Christmas, Pärlstickers från YouDo Pastels, brad från O’scrap!- Giddy Up Cowboy-, chipboardstjärna som mall, svart zigzagband i sammet samt garn.

SÅÅÅÅ mycket Maxell – härligt jobbat!!!

Mer info om Maxell:
Jag kallar mig för maxell i scrapsammanhang. I verkligheten lyssnar jag till Lotta.
Min egen blogg finns här http://maxellexam.blogspot.com

Började scrappa när: Sedan barnsben har jag klippt och klistrat in det mesta i mina fotoalbum. Scrapbooking som begrepp upptäckte jag sent under våren 2004. Jag trevade mig fram och gjorde några layouter då, men tog snart ett uppehåll eftersom tiden inte räckte till. Jag tog upp det hela igen våren eller sommaren 2007 och sedan dess har jag skapat på med ojämna mellanrum.

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Färg: Svart eftersom det ger härliga kontraster mot de flesta andra färger. Annars gillar jag alla färger även om jag har en viss förkärlek för klara och grälla färger.

Dekoration: De som jag gör själv för att komplettera med saker som jag tycker borde vara med.

Stil: Jag har flera gånger fått höra att jag har en egen stil och det ligger nog en del i det. Min stil är helt klart varierad då jag känner efter hur jag bör lägga upp varje sak jag skapar samtidigt som jag gillar att utmana mig själv genom att använda allt möjligt i mitt skapande och låter skapandet få fritt spelrum. Det ger automatisk variation.

Tillverkare: Just nu har jag ingen favorittillverkare. Var sak har sin plats…

Mitt bästa scraptips: En sak som jag tycker aldrig kan upprepas för många gånger är att det viktigaste i alla kategorier är att ha självförtroende och tro på sig själv och sin kapacitet att skapa. Allt kommer du inte att vara helnöjd med, men så länge du har den inställningen gällande din kreativitet och ditt skapande kommer du inte att slås ned av “misslyckanden” eller andras kommentarer eller uteblivna kommentarer. Det är trots allt en hobby (för ett fåtal är det ett yrke) och det ska vara roligt att hålla på.

Alltid: Eftersom jag gillar kontraster kan jag inte låta bli att chalka, distressa, måla eller på annat sätt markera kanter på såväl papper som foto/n. Annars skriver och ritar jag gärna för hand.

Aldrig: Jag ska aldrig säga aldrig. Helt plötsligt är det där som jag ratat exakt det jag behöver för att få till det sista på något jag skapar…

Som DT-medlem vill jag: Inspirera och utmana vår kreativitet genom att visa på produkternas enorma potential – för den finns där bara vi ger det en ärlig chans. Samtidigt ska jag inte sticka under stol med att det också handlar om min egen kreativa utveckling och förhoppningsvis spiller den över till fler.

Det bästa med Creativica: Den grundläggande affärsidén med kreativitet på flera plan och butiken som kombineras med träffar och kurser.

Övrigt: “Kreativitet är att uppfinna, experimentera, växa, ta risker, bryta regler, göra misstag och ha roligt” – Mary Lou Cock sa dessa kloka ord som gäller för såväl skapandet som vardagen.

Ta fasta på Maxells ord: det handlar om att utveckla och använda sin egen kreativitet – det är därför jag kallar mitt företag Creativica .

Vi kommer att få se fler alster från Maxell inom kort – SPÄNNANDE!!!

Välkommen i gänget, Lotta/Maxell!!!

//Kada