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Deviation Spotlight
Deviation Spotlight
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- Germany
- Deviant for 12 years
Nature lover.
Meandering between photography, editing, retouching and manipulation, earlier some painting. I like to experiment, try new things. Hence you find some variety in my portfolio.
Love traditional arts and crafts, even if I don't do everything myself. .
If you are a traditional artist drawing inspiration from one of my photos for a work of yours, I would be curious to see the result!
Please note a necessary clarification, because DA has more and more degenerated to some 'faving/pushing everything' clubs of fave-beggars:
My favourites are a collection of what I liked because of quality and originality.
Or found interesting (but can not do myself, like certain paintings or sculptures) / want to study more closely for learning the 'how to do', And finally some stocks I used.
I consider it like a collection on my (virtual) wall. I want to look at it from time to time without having to close my eyes.
My favourites are NOT: A bag of wild "please fave back"-clicks on everything. I do not expect you to "fav-back" anything.
On the other hand, if you click on fave: I will look at your work but do not expect me to fav anything back. I do some photos every year, but edit less and publish even less, After a period of comparing with my similars over 10 years. I never upload the day I took it.
I see it as sharing something I like, I have worked on for a time, till I see no more improvement, and I have selected then. Without expecting everybody has to like it. Tastes are different. I serve mine primarily. The work and the pleasure of the image is and was always on my side.
If you have ideas to improve or change something in the photo ( I am often hesitant on cutting sth away), want suggest a new/different technique, go ahead. Those comments became rare on DA lately. Botlike commenting like "beautiful!" is not necessary.
The background of all that you find here.
Satirical: Best way to get favourites here
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thank you! 
that bio is probably a good read for team
lately i would add the removal of the ability to search for favorites even in the interface to mention one within the site, such as in comments or feature journals 😦😳😵🙄
btw to me work of our friend Pajunen that you criticize at length here is good quality snapshot, which surely made him upload it, it just may have got less appraisal numbers than his others masterpieces more elaborate, but being still a lot compared to an average user's work of course, so one can say it appeared there not without any good reasons...
ok anyway wishes for a continued bright future to DeviantArt...
Obviously you have not much experience and comparison in forest photography or photography in general.
you wrote: but being still a lot compared to an average user's work of course, so one can say it appeared there not without any good reasons...
Pajunen is grossly overrated here because of his silly faving club, people who spend their days faving and cheering each other in a strange way for every snapshot they do. I thought my screenshot would help you to see that in comparison. 
Years ago photographers like that were on top in that sujet:
https://www.deviantart.com/nelleke
I hope you can see the difference and there also is a tutorial for ppl like you under the link, might help you to see clearer in future.
The question is, why those left DA, became inactive and we have so much hyped up average snapshots now.
Maybe you also take a look at 500px "most popular" list. If you dont see the difference to "photography" - top list here in DA I cant help you.
i talked about "good quality snapshot" and you deduced that obviously [i] have not much experience and comparison in forest photography or photography in general...
silly isn't a very respectful or friendly and probably accurate term to qualify one person or many of our fellow artists here
this while you should know also i certainly won't fight to last extremities to support that work were you say it was, or against most other points you expose here and there