It's been over a year since my last journal entry so I thought that a little update would be nice.

First and most important thing is that I upgraded my gear, bought Olympus E-620 as a replacement for my good old E-500 and at last got myself true ultrawide angle lens - Zuiko Digital 9-18mm/f4-5.6. Now I only have to spend about $200 for new ND filters and I'll be set. Well, FourThirds is definitely not a Full Frame and E-620 is far from e.g. Canon 5D in image quality but still I noticed some improvement and E-620 has some very nice features (present only in some very high-end cameras) like in-body image stabilization or articulating screen making photographing really really fun. For example live view is good enough to enable me to adjust angle and focus even with NDx400 filter on - the fact that left me quite shocked

Also I want to master using of ND Grads. I tried it recently and was amazed how good picture straight from the camera can look. And it's really a time saver, no additional exposures and no blending in post processing.

Another thing is that I fell in love with black and white photography. Just like 1,5 year ago I found my home in long exposure, now I discovered that it's often hard for me to work with colors. The photographers that I admire the most also work mostly with black and white and that gives ma a lot of inspiration, so expect more of that kind of pictures from me. I just love how b/w directs attention of the viewer towards shapes and forms and the unique mood that it creates.

The last thing is that you can find me on flickr now. Add me if you're interested - there will be photos from me that I don't post anywhere else (different versions of older shots, some pictures that I don't consider dA-worthy but still would like to show them to the world etc.). So here's the link - [link]