I'm an independent photographer, having just embarked on my "third career" after art, and about 40 years in IT (including a good chunk of Open Source development). My main theme in photography stems from my background in art and interest in culture and architecture:
With a background in art and architectural design, I have two passions: travel and photography – and these are often combined. Though even in my own city, Amsterdam, I often have a camera with me.
With a background in art and architectural design, I've always been interested in how humans adapt their environment to suit them. First hunter-gatherer communities built shelters, to be safe during the night, or protected from the weather. From the time humans started to live in settlements constructions became more permanent and technology for how to build developed.
Thus humans started to surround themselves with walls, floors, ceilings and roofs, separated 'mine' from 'thine' with fences, and paved their roads to make it easier to move around. All of these reflect their technology, which was passed from generation to generation and developed further: in other words, all these surfaces are a reflection of culture. In addition there is the 'how we do things' aspect which is less technology but more an expression of identity, and a reflection of how communities and cultures are different from each other, even if they share technologies.
This concept of 'cultural surfaces' has become the major focus of my photography. The humans are not in the pictures - not directly - but they are 'present' by the result of how they shape their world. There is always a story…
I recently bought a AS-604T with the intention to set it up as a backup and syncing server - both for my computers at home, but also (I hope) to upload my photos to when I'm traveling so they'll be safe - and then syncing my portable drives when I'm back home (I always travel with two but sometimes it's hard to keep both in sync, and edits mostly land on one of them), and backing the result up to the NAS as well. A lot of this will be done by (yet to be created) shell scripts - I've only just started to poke around and learning the internals of the box.
Marjolein
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Thank you!