Vote For My Ad On ZOOPPA.COM

If you haven't heard of Zooppa, check it out now because it is one of the best websites out there. Not only it unites artistic people from all over the world but gives everyone an opportunity to create print ads, banners, videos and other forms of advertising for big companies and earn some cash for doing that. Not everyone wins of course, but those who get the most votes.

Currently Zooppa has a number of competitions going on and the one I'm participating in is for Jones Soda Co. Here's my print ad.

Since Jones gives everyone an opportunity to have their photograph printed on soda's bottle labels (if they like it obviously) I decided to base my ad on that. As usually I wanted to come up with something clever, so after challenging my brain with different concepts I chose the one above.

My Jones bottle is floating in the tray with photo developer like a normal print would, while tongs are resting on the side and the film reel is saying "Reveal Yourself". Vibrant colors accent a hip look of the ad and give it a feel of a darkroom.

So if you like my ad and think that I deserve to win, then vote for me here.

To Blog Or Not To Blog

I've been debating for a while whether to start my own blog or not. At first blogging seemed to me like a new trend - everyone was expressing their thoughts in the cyber world and if you didn't regularly type your internet memoirs you were not cool enough. Since I never got influenced by any social obsessions I decided to leave blogs aside.

Today having a blog became a real necessity if you run your own business. Although wedding and portrait photographers are the ones who blog the most, I did manage to find some blogs on the websites of commercial photographers. I wish there were more because it is always very exciting to find out some details about photographers' work process when you are already impressed by their unique portfolio. It's like getting a backstage pass.

With this being said, I'm officially starting "Olga Minkevitch Photography Blog", which I hope will be of interest to all working professionals and everyone else who shares the love for photography and art.