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The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: churly on February 22, 2014, 06:27:35 pm
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Slobodan's insightful and always entertaining voice has been missing for the last few weeks. Anyone know what's up?
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People get busy with work/life/holidays etc, so he may simply be otherwise occupied.
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Maybe he's actually out photographing. I hope so.
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Hi,
I miss him too!
Best regards
Erik
Slobodan's insightful and always entertaining voice has been missing for the last few weeks. Anyone know what's up?
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I wondered too.
Hopefully he's allright.
His last activity on Flickr was January 23, here on Lula January 28.
Cheers
~Chris
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We can always hope that he has simply come to his senses and got back a life.
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We can always hope that he has simply come to his senses and got back a life.
Yes, I certainly hope that's the case.
On the other hand, perhaps he's just embarked on a long voyage with his real Hasselblad and will knock us out with its real images again! It doesn't do a man any good to get too involved with glue and jewellery for too long.
Rob C
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I just sent Slobodan an email hoping he'll reply. If he does, I'll let everybody know.
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Thanks!
Erik
I just sent Slobodan an email hoping he'll reply. If he does, I'll let everybody know.
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Thanks!
Erik
Thanks from me too.
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Slobodan, missing from the forum? :'(
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Just got an answer back from Slobodan:
"Yes, I am ok... physically at least. Financially and otherwise, that is another matter. I am less than a year away from a complete financial catastrophe, i.e., the moment when my liquid savings literally evaporate. Thus I decided to wean myself off all unnecessary distractions and concentrate all my efforts on finding a job."
We're gonna miss him, but he's gotta do what he's gotta do. I hope he'll come back once things settle down.
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That is sad, but I'm glad he's basically OK.
Anyone as smart and articulate as him should be able to get a job easily, but the current economy doesn't favor the talented and deserving.
I'm sure we all wish him the best of luck and hope to see him back in a few months time.
Thanks for checking on him, Russ.
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Just got an answer back from Slobodan:
"Yes, I am ok... physically at least. Financially and otherwise, that is another matter. I am less than a year away from a complete financial catastrophe, i.e., the moment when my liquid savings literally evaporate. Thus I decided to wean myself off all unnecessary distractions and concentrate all my efforts on finding a job."
We're gonna miss him, but he's gotta do what he's gotta do. I hope he'll come back once things settle down.
That is sad.
Best wishes Mate.
Tony Jay
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News like that sends a chill down my spine.
I wish him all the best and every success in his efforts.
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Thanks for the info Russ.
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Best wishes and good luck, Slobodan, if you ever manage to read this thread !
Cheers
~Chris
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News like that sends a chill down my spine.
I wish him all the best and every success in his efforts.
Yes, and the worst thing is that he's far from alone.
I look at my own situation where the only advantage I have is that I'm much older with less expected time ahead to finance and no children dependent upon me.
In 2007 my apartment was worth in the region of X pounds or euros, depending on the buyer; today, similar but smaller-terraces ones in the complex are for sale (mine was a one-off designed for the developer's wife as investment but they split), and one sold recently for about 0.5X because the owner has no money worries and had already bought a villa a couple of hundred yards away. This further distorts the market. A further five in the complex are also sporting Se Vende signs. I'd like to get out of Spain just to make death duties less painful for the kids, but without my throwing away the place for a pittance, seems I'm stuck.
I never thought I'd see the day estate agents went bust! I have seen it.
Rob C
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Maybe you're stuck in Mallorca,
but its time to leave Prion Island, Rob ...
Cheers
~Chris
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Yes, and the worst thing is that he's far from alone.
I look at my own situation where the only advantage I have is that I'm much older with less expected time ahead to finance and no children dependent upon me.
In 2007 my apartment was worth in the region of X pounds or euros, depending on the buyer; today, similar but smaller-terraces ones in the complex are for sale (mine was a one-off designed for the developer's wife as investment but they split), and one sold recently for about 0.5X because the owner has no money worries and had already bought a villa a couple of hundred yards away. This further distorts the market. A further five in the complex are also sporting Se Vende signs. I'd like to get out of Spain just to make death duties less painful for the kids, but without my throwing away the place for a pittance, seems I'm stuck.
I never thought I'd see the day estate agents went bust! I have seen it.
Rob C
There is a lot of it about Rob. I had three companies in a row go bust on me in the day job as the recession ravaged Ireland and have been pretty much left to my own devices for the last three years. There is no hope of earning money with a camera out in this part of the world, I have seen several people set up and disappear again in town and the old established photographer is hardly driving around in a Lamborghini, hence photography has become just a part of what I am trying to do. Is our house worth anything like we bought it for? Nope, and won't be for quite a time, but it cost half the price of the equivalent in the English midlands even at the height of the boom and gave the girls room to grow in their teenage years, which is just as important, if not more so.
Slobodan is quite right to draw in his tentacles and look at where he is and where he wants/needs to go. I faced exactly the same situation and it's a sobering experience, it still is.
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Good Luck Slobodan ( if you get to read this ).
Graeme
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+ 1 to everything said above.
I haven't spent that much time on the forum in the past month, so didn't realise he hadn't been posting.
We are all wishing you well Slobodan.
Dave
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We are all wishing you well Slobodan.
Dave
+10
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I heard from him on FB. He's a very talented guy with a great resume and a graduate of Univ Chicago business school in finance I believe. If you know of anything out there, maybe your kids are hiring ;), let him know.
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I'll miss his dry, occasionally acerbic wit.
Slobodan, I wish all good things for you.
Me too. Good luck, Slobodan.
Jeremy
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Leave him be - he'll get back to us when he's good and ready.
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Leave him be - he'll get back to us when he's good and ready.
Amen to that!
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As an update: I'd been in touch with Slobodan before, and exchanged mail with him regarding the LuLa exit. This evening we connected again.
He'd like me to express his sincere thanks for the collective concern, support and friendship shown by you guys, and I can add (on my own initiative) that there's nothing personal involved with anyone in terms of animosity or anything like that at all; it's all about other, personal matters.
All in all, you're a pretty good bunch!
;-)
Rob C
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Thanks for the update, Rob.
I wish we could offer him a job!
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+1
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Passing good thoughts your way, Slobodan.
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+1
Best wishes from me too, Slobodan!
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Slobodan's got his priorities straight. We'll miss him for a while. He's cantankerous / persistent / talented enough, he'll land ok.
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...... but the current economy doesn't favor the talented and deserving.
Doesn't this just bother the heck out of you the direction things are going?!
In the last few years I have seen a decline in the markets for anything creative...Music, writing, imagery-arts....I hope its my misunderstanding or lack of insight, and simply picking a small sampling....but it sure does look that way at times. ...Another thread.
I too wish the best for Slobodan, and look forward to his return, when ever that maybe.
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Doesn't this just bother the heck out of you the direction things are going?!
In the last few years I have seen a decline in the markets for anything creative...Music, writing, imagery-arts....I hope its my misunderstanding or lack of insight, and simply picking a small sampling....but it sure does look that way at times. ...Another thread.
I too wish the best for Slobodan, and look forward to his return, when ever that maybe.
It's not.
Rob C
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Chuck and everyone else,
Thank you so much for your concern, kind words and best wishes!
I am greatly touched and appreciate it very much. Although not much, if anything, has changed in my situation, I thought I should stop by and acknowledge your kindness. Otherwise, waiting till I have some good news might have taken too long :)
As some pointed out on my behalf, my absence was not in protest to anything or anyone, just an attempt to concentrate more on my personal situation. In the meantime, I finished the jewelry project I mentioned a couple of months ago (you can see it in the Recent Professional Work thread, post #1317: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=75783.new#new) and, yes, my tax return. Now I can concentrate once again on a highly futile and depressing job hunting. Yaaayyy!
Many thanks once again to everyone.
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Chuck and everyone else,
Thank you so much for your concern, kind words and best wishes!
I am greatly touched and appreciate it very much. Although not much, if anything, has changed in my situation, I thought I should stop by and acknowledge your kindness. Otherwise, waiting till I have some good news might have taken too long :)
As some pointed out on my behalf, my absence was not in protest to anything or anyone, just an attempt to concentrate more on my personal situation. In the meantime, I finished the jewelry project I mentioned a couple of months ago (you can see it in the Recent Professional Work thread, post #1317: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=75783.new#new) and, yes, my tax return. Now I can concentrate once again on a highly futile and depressing job hunting. Yaaayyy!
Many thanks once again to everyone.
It's not job hunting you want to be at Slobodan its change of career hunting that you need to concentrate on, and there's a big difference. I was laid off from the day job nigh on three years ago and took the view the view that nobody round here was going to employ me as left my forties so I had better sort my own sh*t out, not that I wanted to go back to what I was doing anyway. So I picked up on something that I had been doing for pin money and developed it further and now I am beginning to see some light again. You're an intelligent fellow and I don't doubt that you have a few more strings to your bow so it's now a question of bringing one to the fore and doing something with it.
I won't say any more at this point as it can all sound a bit glib but one piece of advice I was given and which I rejected at first was 'change your friends'. I don't mean dump on people but just try moving on, loosen some ties and make new ones. Something in it worked for me.
Good luck anyway.
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Slobodan,
It's good to hear from you.
If you want a dozen or more letters of recommendation for whatever you want to try next, you can probably get a bunch from your pals at LuLa, just by asking.
Good luck, and I hope you get some really good news before too long.
Eric
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As I just said on the first thread I hit with my laptop --on the road -- welcome back Slobodan.
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Welcome back! I appreciate your comments regarding my photos even though they have been a bit warm.
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:)
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:) :)