I guess I`m one of the last photographers who discovered Flickr. It`s really a nice place to have a central photo server, and the possibilities of Flickr are simply amazing. If you are interesed you can find my Flickr Photo Stream here: Mlenny Flickr Photostream .I also made two different kind of slideshows from the flickr content. You can see them here: Mlenny Flickr Slide Show or here (a more animated version): Mlenny Porfolio Slideshow. Another nice slideshow solution to show parts of a Flickr Portfolio can you see here: Click here to see a photo slideshow of some recent uploads


So stay tuned. I`m right now just at the beginning to learn the possibilies of flickr and the flickr API.

Flickr without any content is of course nothing. So here are the newest images I uploaded to my iStockphoto Portfolio and (as watermarked versions) into my brand new Flickr Account.

People: Woman and man Portraits:



Summer Beauty:



Young Couple:



Friends at the Beach:



Archery Targets - Bow and Arrow Competition:



King Penguin Colony South Georgia:



Summer Landscape / Agriculture Field:



And here are some more new lightboxes (Woman/Man / My Squares) at iStockphoto:

Women and Girls - Female Photo Collection

Men and Boys - Male Photo Collection

Squares - Square Format Photo Collection


Click here if you like to see my newest uploads!

100 Stock Photos (in Random Order)..Just CLICK

more Stock Photos (Random #101-200)

more Stock Photos (Random #201-300)

more Stock Photos (Random #301-400)

As the prices of oil, gas and electricity are climbing up to new heights every month, it`s time to find some alternatives. Here are some examples of my stock images around the topic 'Alternative Energy' or 'Green Energy'. Just click on the thumbnails if you like to download them from istock.

Click here to see: Electricity, Energy, Green Energy, Wind Turbines and Solar Panels


Click here to see: Solar Panels, Solar Power and Solar Cells



Alternative Energy:




Geyser Eruption Iceland:



Solar Energy and Photovoltaik:



Hydroelectric Electricity Generator (Hoover Dam, USA):



Photovoltaik + Solar Panels:



Electricity Power Plant, Transformator Station:



Wind Turbines (cross processed):



Wind Energy. Wind Turbine at Twilight.



I added some more new images to my portfolio. Click here to see my newest uploads!

Some weeks ago in february I played around with the animoto video tool. Some months later I think it was time again produce a new short portfolio clip. So here is the result. A short video clip of people & model images I took or processed in the first six/seven months of the year 2008. All of those can be found and downloaded from my istockphoto portfolio. Have fun.



Most of the images included in the video above you can find in my portfolio.

Underwater Photography. I like this new perspective of weightlessness.

It`s summer, so time to enter the swimming pool. There I 'played' around with that topic. As Underwater Housings for DSLR's are too expensive, I tried out the Canon G9 Compact Camera together with the underwater housing from Canon. As far as I know, one of the cheapest solutions to get good results at 12.1 MPixel in Underwater Photography. So here are the fresh first shots it took with the Canon G9.

Underwater:




I will soon include some more new images from the Canon G9 here. The images below are shot with my Canon 1Ds MK III. A Compact Canon G9 is simply not fast enough for such 'fast' images. So don`t make wrong conclusions of the G9`s speed

Mountain Bike & Dirt Bike Series:


And here you see more images from the lifestyle & beach shots made in malta two weeks ago:

Beach Girls & Beach Boys:




People, Men and Women:



Portraits, Mixed Scenes:


History & Fairy Tales: Pirates & Malta Knight Hospitallers & the Princess:


Fairy Tales, Legends, Surreal, Mystic People, Details and more - Click here!



More of my newest uploads you find here...just click.

100 iStockphoto Portfolio Photos (in Random Order)..Just CLICK

more iStockphoto Portfolio Photos (Random #101-200)

more iStockphoto Portfolio Photos (Random #201-300)

more iStockphoto Portfolio Photos (Random #301-400)

On 19th August is again the Punktum Day on istockphoto. I love the idea behind that last year introduced day to celebrate creativity.

A short description of the Punctum Day from istockphoto.

"What the heck is Punctum Day?
Punctum Day, August 19, was declared in 2007 by iStockphoto as a special day to celebrate creative excellence. The day holds dual significance for iStock because it was August 19, 1839, that Louis Daguerre first introduced an early type of photograph, the Daguerreotype, to the world and it is also the birthday of Jeff Howe, Wired magazine writer, who introduced the staff at iStock HQ to the meaning of punctum."

I think that sometimes creativity needs to be explained, even when 'images are telling more then 1000 words'. I guess in the last 12 months there where over 1 mio. files uploaded to istockphoto. Overlooking those files is simply impossible. I guess there are more then 10.000 image-pearls i would not even see here within the flood of approx. 1 mio new files which came into istockphoto within the last 12 months.

The result might be that 'one of the usual suspects' will win this istock contest. One image that had be IOTW (Image of the week) or FIOTW (Free Image of the week). One image that is in the Top Picks Lists of the early voted punktum images, or on the 'Most Popular Files' List.... Instead of having the contributers go through 1 mio files, why is it not possible that inspectors nominate e.g. 1000 images? Afterwards let the istock community make the final decision. The inspectors see much more images then every contributer or buyer just because of their job.

Another solution might be that a contributer can nominate one of his own files. It would make a lot of sense to allow a kind of caption or punktum description to explain, give background or context to the image he`d like to nominate.

Anyway. The idea of punktum day made me reflect about my own portfolio. Which one out of the images I took the last 12months is my personal personal favourite. After thinking a lot, i finally found it. It`s not studio, stock, beauty, lifestyle, fashion, landscape. It`s something private. I knew when i uploaded this image that it will never be a 'flamer'. but it simply has to be here on istock, my exclusive and loved photo-plattform and community.

So here it is, my favourite out of my portfolio within the last 12 months:



Caption:

This image shows my son finn walking towards the leaving airplane on the airport of windhoek in namibia. This image is not an edited snap it might look like on the first view. It`s a pure concept shot i had long time ago in my mind. Actually it`s a kind of selfportrait transported through my son Finn. (Background: Most people especially my parents say that my son looks identical like I looked when I was younger).

I think this image transports the feelings I have everytime when i travel on my own and i had to leave the places i have visited. Sometimes loney and slighty sad.. Behind every departure, every end, I feel a kind of sadness, you`re leaving friends, places,new people you met and might never see again. But all the memories I have in my "suitcase" together with me remain bright and colorful. And I`m carrying those memories with me, even if they are sometimes heavy,.

That is the reason why I processed the image completly desaturated, except of the suitcase my son carries with him towards the leaving airplane on this empty airport.

'lonely farwell' is definately my favourite shot I made during the last 12 months.

So thanks for the Punktum Idea istock! You made me rethinking and reviewing the images I took within the last 12 months.

I`m back from another amazing istockalypse, the second istockalypse this year on beautiful mediterranean island & country of Malta. Here are the first bunch of images of this amazing event...



For the new images made around Malta I added two new lightboxes:

Yacht, Sailboat, Ship, Motor Boat etc.



Malta Mediterranean Island



And here you find the first images I uploaded from this trip:

Malta Images:



Water Textures:



Yachts, Sailboats, Motorboats & Malta Valetta Harbor:





New Model, Lifestyle Images (Mixed)



More recently added images










More of my newest uploads you find here...just click.

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