So it has come to this. I’m star­ting a blog, and I think Flickr is to blame. I have been a ama­teur pho­to­grap­her since I was about 13. In years, I was happy with kee­ping the over 20.000 exposu­res I had done with my digi­tal came­ras to myself.

Or actually — I was not

Because of the few times I cap­tu­red somet­hing gol­den, I wan­ted to show it to some­one. Some­ti­mes, I luck­ily smi­led from the specta­tors posi­tive reac­tion, and other times I was dis­ap­pointed that the precious moment sim­ply was flip­ped through like brow­s­ing bills or train schedules.

I guess this might be one of the rea­sons why blog­ging and social networ­king has explo­ded, popu­la­ting flickr.com in a rate of 5.000 pic­tu­res pr. min­ute. At least it’s mine. We’re not living in the 90’s any­more, where com­mu­ni­ca­tion had to be regu­lated through the utterly few chann­els. Remem­ber? We had the pri­mi­tive pos­si­bi­lities of: Meeting in per­son, calling,sending a fax, let­ter, email, sms or mms. That’s it! (were there any other?)

Sys­tems

I remem­ber being utterly impressed that we coped with the com­plex dia­lects of the sys­tem alre­ady at that age. Now the pos­si­bi­lities has com­pletely blown away all of it’s pre­de­ces­sors. Face­book is the nar­ra­tor when some of my best fri­ends first baby is born, and Twit­ter is the best medium to learn about new inte­rests and opi­nions among my friends.

Flickr taught me to open up and have a big­ger crowd for my pic­tu­res, and even­tually how nice it is to share inte­rests with both the world and my friends.

That’s why I — today — am star­ting a blog.

I think it will be about pho­to­graphy, music, ran­dom­ness and com­mu­ni­ca­tion. We’ll see.