About 15 years ago, I proposed an idea to the owner of a large internet photography site.

Allow us to add money to our monthly subscription fee, that we could then use to "tip" photos that were posted that we liked.

The idea was to encourage people to post more, and better pictures. But also to reward photographers that you thought were posting good work, since there were really no other ways am average photographer could make any money back from shoots (outside of weddings etc, I'm talking about hobby photography).

Anyway, the owner eventually said no, he couldn'timagine people just "randomly giving money away". I explained it only had to be cents/pennies, whatever, but he declined.

And here we are on nostr, where people randomly zap things they find cool or interesting, including photos :) and it's a great , unexpected, thing 😀😃

i almost never share the photos i take with my fuji camera. i take them, i look at them, and then i hide them away.

i’m not a photographer.

not even close. just a beginner who loves catching little moments.

i don’t know if it’s fear.

or just me telling myself they’re not good enough.

the truth is, i want to share them. but that little voice of self-doubt always sneaks in.

but nostr feels different though.

safer.

here i don’t feel the need to hide as much, and maybe someone out there might connect with what i create.

so yeah… i have a little site where i put up the ones i like most.

if you’d like to take a look, here it is:

👉 www.wencke.xyz

camera:Rollei 35

film: kodak TRI-X400

It’s getting cooler, so maybe it’s about time I go out for a photo walk.

#photography #keepfilmalive #believeinfilm