It's probably worth pointing out that Filmwasters is primarily a
showcase site. It's all about the pictures and the original idea the 5 of us behind the site had was to set up something to showcase our own work (natch
), but to spice things up a bit by inviting people we know & like and whose work excites us to lend a few photos to a guest gallery or a collaboration project and thereby brighten up our sorry lives. Guest galleries and collaboration projects will be run regularly to keep the content here moving along.
The
blog section is mainly going to be used for any interesting news snippets, gallery/exhibition info and to link to cool stuff that we find online.
We included a
forum here probably because the 5 of us first 'met' on the toycamera.com forum and we enjoy the interaction, creative buzz and community spirit that a good forum provides. It also allows people to display individual images or small groups of images in an ad hoc fashion through links in forum posts (like this):
So please keep using the forum - the first few days have been really, really fun - but bear in mind that we're not trying to 'make a success' of it or anything else specific/calculating like that. We just wanted somewhere of our own to hang out and chat with friends and like-minded photogs. If forum membership stays under 100 we'll still be delighted - we ain't going for sponsorship or advertising. Filmwasters paid, designed and run by the 5 of us and we are going to keep it 100% independent of anything other than our own prejudices and poor taste.
Enjoy!!!