Less time for hobby ?

[panos_adgr]

panos_adgr , no problem , forums are good places to leave some of own thinks , long text but no bad at all , you need to be more active with us on the fprum
What do you do daily? Do you work or study?

Hi Natalia!

I stayed off work for about 2 months. It was only needed to work from home for a couple of hours.

My job is Research & Development Manager of Food Products & Services.
I work in an Industrial Systematic Catering Company.
I design, and create food products from white paper calculate cost, think of product strategic, design production manuals. I also create food services of different kinds for the restaurants our company has.
I have to study global food trends, habits as well as our internal clients needs and create products that have to be commercial, trendy, cost effective, innovative and sometimes specific or targeted to special clientele.

I have studied in the School of Tourism Professions and I have a degree in Gastronomy.

 

[MinoltaMan]

Hi Natalia!

I stayed off work for about 2 months. It was only needed to work from home for a couple of hours.

My job is Research & Development Manager of Food Products & Services.
I work in an Industrial Systematic Catering Company.
I design, and create food products from white paper calculate cost, think of product strategic, design production manuals. I also create food services of different kinds for the restaurants our company has.
I have to study global food trends, habits as well as our internal clients needs and create products that have to be commercial, trendy, cost effective, innovative and sometimes specific or targeted to special clientele.

I have studied in the School of Tourism Professions and I have a degree in Gastronomy.

sounds like a very interesting job

 

[panos_adgr]

sounds like a very interesting job

It is! It is very creative but the hard part is when you design a product and you have to convince the board council if it is very innovative.... Once It took me 2 years to launch a salad that was innovative because the Board council felt it was very innovative. When it was launch it became a best selling product with a patent registration and 2 stars award from the international taste institute of Brussels.

It is a great job but it has great responsibility, with no mistakes allowed and challenges such the above.

 

[MinoltaMan]

It is! It is very creative but the hard part is when you design a product and you have to convince the board council if it is very innovative.... Once It took me 2 years to launch a salad that was innovative because the Board council felt it was very innovative. When it was launch it became a best selling product with a patent registration and 2 stars award from the international taste institute of Brussels.

It is a great job but it has great responsibility, with no mistakes allowed and challenges such the above.

wow i had no idea there could be so much red tape over a salad!

 

[panos_adgr]

wow i had no idea there could be so much red tape over a salad!

It depends on what you do. We are producing in an industrial climax products that have the philosophy of small production climax. This is one of the most challenging things to do. How to create and produce a food product that when you taste it it will be like it was produced by a chef with all the attention.
The salad was an example. I create hot meals, cold meals, salads, sweets, sandwiches, open sandwiches, and shop in shop food services like Italian food, Asian food, Burger Stations, Grill Stations and many other things, Full daily menu delivery services e.t.c.

 

[Ron Westbroek]

I do photography every weekend in the morning.
And the woman has to work every other weekend then I often go to the National Park all day.
During the Corona period I continued working because I am in the food (rice) for the Aldi, Lidl, Tesco and all supermarkets in the Netherlands.
And in the Netherlands we could also just go outside if we only kept a meter and a half away.

 

[Jack]

Pandemic & Quarantine

Surely this was a bad period globally. Entering the discussion I wish health to all and quick recovery to people that are infected.
I spent about two months being of work. Although it was a bad period for all, it was also a good chance for study.
I spent the time of quarantine quite creatively. I had plenty of time to experiment from the beginning, to the the day that we had stay home until the end of restrictions.

I dedicated a lot of time (well the most of it) in photography, mostly studying the history, the art movements of it. I studied great photographers of the world from America, Europe and Asia.

The most interesting part was the lives of great photographers of the world and the way they expressed their photographic art. Their beliefs, their thoughts and their course through time. I was quite happy to realise many thing especially in the field of self expressionism through photographic art. All this intense study helped me to understand better my photographic perception and in some cases I will dare to say that I found self - confirmations in personal self beliefs about self expression in photography.

With all this everyday study came also a personal distanciation from some online Greek Photo communities. I still study to this day about photography and art movements as well as self expressionism through the lives of great and famous photographers such us, Ansel Adams, Cartier - Bresson, Sebastiao Salgado, Bill Brandt, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Robert Cappa, Alfred Sieglitz, Dorothea Lange, Arnold Newman, Edward Steichen, Steve Mc Curry, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Annie Leibovitz, Diane Arbus, Andreas Gursky, Michael Kenna, Fan Ho, Nobuyoshi Araki, Lu GuangPlaton, and many, many other.

I also dedicated a lot of time in the fields of Post Processing mostly because of the constant photographic social debates concerning if it is right or wrong, especially from people that struggle to prove that self artistic expressionism through photography with post processing is not right. They ignore that form the beginning of photography (pictorialism period) and then after, post processing was done in in printing rooms with masking, dodging, burning, double exposing and image combining as being done today in software processing.

All this period impacted me strongly.
What I kept the most is that its individual has its style and expressionism which is souly, aesthetically and sentimentally driven. That there are no absolute rules. And the effort of self improvement and self discovery is endless.

I also had the chance to experiment a lot indoors with photography.

I hope I didn't tire you.

There are always something to do, to learn to improve and to achieve , no matter of world situation, everything depends on the person.

The positive thing (in my view) , I made this forum to bring all macro photographers in one place. This basically took those months which UK was in lockdown.

But yes, we need to move further and think about future.

 

[Jack]

I do photography every weekend in the morning.
And the woman has to work every other weekend then I often go to the National Park all day.
During the Corona period I continued working because I am in the food (rice) for the Aldi, Lidl, Tesco and all supermarkets in the Netherlands.
And in the Netherlands we could also just go outside if we only kept a meter and a half away.

Apologies for of topic . You have Tesco there ?

 

[Jack]

between covid, the hot weather and work i have had a hard time getting out

Same here in UK, now everything is getting to normal, but there are news that might be second wave of this virus, which I hope isn’t true.

 

[Jack]

Yes... more or less. We've still short-time work but I had to work daily. I'm a project engineer and develop special illumination solutions for shops and museums

Everyone has its own routine I guess .