[PHOTO] Five photography links: Flickr, Kodak vs Fujifilm, landscapes, macro, future

[rfmcdonald]

• Peter Bright at Ars Technica notes the potential negative import of the decision of Flickr to limit free accounts to one thousand photos. What will happen to those accounts like my own which exceed that limit? I'll be making hard decisions this month.


• This Petapixel essay takes a look at why front-running film firm Kodak failed to adapt to the digital era while runner-up Fujifilm survived.


• This ScienceDaily article notes, via the choice of photos uploaded to online photo accounts, the importance of landscapes in the human imagination.


• At Speed River Journal, Van Waffle talks about the benefits of macrophotography, of extreme close-ups, and of curiosity about the workings of the world.


• This Sean O'Hagan article at The Guardian taking a look at the mutations of photography in the Instagram era, who artists are interrogating the technology and the social conventions of the genre, is fascinating.

Comments

About the Flickr/SmugMug situation

[dewline]

I've been paying for the Pro account for a few years, despite having accumulated little more than 4000 images hosted there. The annual fee has been something of a reason to not leave up to now, but even though it's expected to double...I might stick around if they keep accepting the regular credit cards and they don't politically align with the Vulgarian.