So far, this blog has been about photography. And it has been very quite in the last year. That doesn’t mean the end of it, but just a slow down to allow the most scarce of all resources -time- to be invested in other areas. I’ve been busy with some ideas and projects in different technology domains, that, next to my family, use up much of my time.

So whether it is learning Scala, deploying Cassandra, creating Led lamps, trying to make an IOIO board with my Android phone or measuring the energy consumption of the setup box, there are plenty of interesting things I would like to talk about; share with the blogosphere and reach to whoever is interested.

Then comes the question of this entry: keep the blog as One Trick Pony dedicated to photography (and updating it from time to time) *or* let it become a Jack of All Trades covering my different areas of interest.

Analyzing this dilemma brought me also to the thought of whether it’s manageable to cover different areas successfully. So, is proficiency is Scala a goal in itself? or seeing Cassandra run is the end of it? No. They are all means to creation, tools that will help me down the road to realize what this blog, and me, are about: realizing ideas.

How does it fit with photography? Well, having an image in your head, and using the tools, like camera and lights to translate that original idea into pixels is a very concrete example of the concept of idea realization. I realize that in the other areas I will be addressing, that translation step is less obvious and the risk is high of never converging into a particular realization.

The evolution of this blog will be in itself an experiment to see how this all evolves. If we don’t try, we won’t know, right?

Let’s give it a try.

-Gerard.