About swisscan / Reto Fetz  

PLEASE DON'T invite my photos to any award group!!
I changed the way I am participating on Flickr. I quit all general award and fave groups and all invitation only groups to concentrate on very few specialized groups like Rhizome and PritzkerArchitecture!
I also want to comment more on less contacts, therefore I streamed my contact list! Please don't feel offended, if I don't add you as a contact. I just don't have the time!
Thanks again for not inviting me to any groups, please leave a nice or critical comment, that I would appreciate very much! Thanks a lot!





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I am a Swiss guy living in Toronto, Canada. I love to travel and I like photography as a hobby. I started very young with a Kodak Instamatic in the 60s and 70s
collectiblend.com/Cameras/Kodak-Eastman/Instamatic-255-X....,
when I was 16 I had my first SLR, a Konica T4
www.buhla.de/Foto/Konica/eT4Haupt.html
and in 1986 I bought my first Minolta SLR AF
collectiblend.com/Cameras/Minolta/Minolta-Maxxum-7000-AF....
been replaced by a Minolta AF3xi in1997
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minolta_AF
3 years ago I started with digital.

I did the opposite what most other photographers did, I downgraded to compact cameras.
I now own a Canon SD800 with a wide angle lens (28mm), this is perfect for photos with skyscrapers!!

UPDATE, April 1st, 2009:
I am celebrating my second anniversary on Flickr now!
I got myself a new DSLR (Canon Rebel XTi) which I use together with the SD800 (I still love the small one, so easy to carry around and hide from security guards!) I learned a lot on Flickr in these two years, among other things:
-Too many people are obsessed with Explore, which is easy to manipulate (I did it myself)
-I will never get into HDR, too many people already do it and many do it great!!
-Too many group members just post and run and expect to get comments without commenting other photos!
-Some people just add you as a contact and throw tons of awards and invitations at your photos without really looking at them!
-Many of my photos have been stolen and used on Blogs and other things.
-I met some great photographers and friends here and I sold some of my photos, which were used on websites, for art projects or charity, others appeared in newspapers, magazines or calendars and one is hanging in the lobby of the Sheraton Hotel in Toronto now!
-I learned that I am a snapshot photographer, without artistic aspirations, well that is fine with me. I try to find interesting objects and great angles, try to compose and crop well in other words, I want to collect photos which I like and not which have a chance to sell or make Explore! If my photos are great and interestng snapshots, then I am happy!
I am not very much interested in most technical details! I leave that to the real professionals and artists!
I am now and will ever be a true amateur photographer!
-I love flowers, sunsets, sunrises and dog pictures, do I have to be ashamed about that?!
My favorite objects are architecture and landscape, I will concentrate on that, but I will try some other objects from time to time!

I also found out, that it is not really important, what kind of camera you use, as long as you have a great eye for the beauty in our world!!

As I am a skyscraper freak, I created the "UltimateSkyscraperShots" group:




Originally I am a mountain boy from Switzerland, so this is my second group:


My newest creation is the SwissCanadianColors group:




I am an administrator for the Pritzker Architecture Prize on Flickr and the PritzkerPrizeFirstChoice groups:










I hope to have a lots of fun here and as I am already a Flickrholic, I must find time for my other duties and interests!!

Reto






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