Wich Operating System do you use?

From the begining of the computing we have the chance of choose the Operating System (OS from now on) that is running on our computer. Most likely people trends to use Microsoft XXXX because by default it is installed on their computers, which from my point of view it is a very bad practise from the computer manufacturers because they would give the option to choose this or this other OS that I like. But any way, that is a different story than the one I am targeting today.

In the options that we have also there is GNU/Linux and all the range of different distributions within this OS. Therefore we can choose  the distribution we like because we are more use to it or the one that fits better in our computer or that that has been developed for an specific task that we want to do…

Our third main option is Mac OX for the one that have Apple computers and that people say that when you try this one it is difficult to go back to a normal pc… Well my experience with this system is great and I wouldn’t go back to Windows but GNU/Linux is there.

Each of this three OS has it’s owns pros and cons as in therms of stability, usability, GUI, compatibility… You can read more about this topic in this article of CIO.

However I can see the “new” OS that you, me, us are running and using every day and that it is totaly independent of the one that ir running on your computer and that may be you won’t use it anymore in this last years and that we won’t use anymore going back to the old dummy terminals that were connected to a mainframe. You might figure out by this time what I am talking about, I am after all the services that the big companies over internet are providing to the user. How many of you are using all the google stuf? (google mail, google reader, google docs, blogger, the search engine of course) But not only google, Microsoft has all his enviroment under the name of MS Live that contains more or less the same services as iGoogle. I am saying that because more often when you see the screen of a computer you only see a browser running with several tabs open or serveral windows of the server there, but not more than that, so basically we are running and using Google OS with its services, Microsoft OS with its, Yahoo…

Have you ever notice this? This was planned a long time ago, but now at days it is more explicit than it was before thanks to the popularity of clowd computing, the appearance of the netbooks and the evoluton of cellphones and fast comunications by the new mobile networks.

Street photography

Last friday I started reading in xatakafoto some post about street photography. I have done just a few photos of this kind of photography because I was shy of photography people that I don’k know, but having a look to some galleries I have decided to start a serie of it.

For those that don’t know what street photography is about this is the definition that you can find in wikipedia:

Street photography uses the techniques of straight photography in that it shows a pure vision of something, like holding up a mirror to society. Street photography often tends to be ironic and can be distanced from its subject matter and often concentrates on a single human moment, caught at a decisive or poignant moment. On the other hand, much street photography takes the opposite approach and provides a very literal and extremely personal rendering of the subject matter, giving the audience a more visceral experience of walks of life they might only be passingly familiar with. In the 20th century, street photographers have provided an exemplary and detailed record of street culture in Europe and North America, and elsewhere to a somewhat lesser extent.

Many classic works of street photography were created in the period between roughly 1890 and 1975 and coincided with the introduction of portable cameras, especially small 35mm, rangefinder cameras. Classic practitioners of street photography include Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Alfred Eisenstaedt, W. Eugene Smith, William Eggleston, Brassaї, Willy Ronis, Robert Doisneau and Garry Winogrand.

So to got for this new challenge in my photography hobby I will use my 3 weapons:

1. My phone, as it is small, fits in the pocket and has got a camera, it is a good candidate to use it almost everywhere during the day.
2. My old compact camera, my sony DSC P7 with its 3,2 Mp is good to get this photos when you go out or you are in a concert or go for a ride with the bike wherever and you can find good shots.
3. But the main one is gonna be my digital-SLR, with the Canon EOS 350D I will do most of the work for obvious reason the quality would be better and you can play with more settings than with the other 2 that I have described above. However it is going to be the most difficult one due you cannot hide it and if you take a photo to people you don’t know they are going to notice it, but I have decided to do it and this is one of the risk that you have to assume.

Once I have told you all of this let me show you some examples of this kind of photography. And I hope you enjoy the galleries coming as the ones that are already in my public flickr gallery.

• http://www.streetphoto.fsnet.co.uk/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/patxiwan/
• http://www.streetphotography.co.uk/