Every Saturday since
29 August 2009, I have posted a
Pic(k) of the Week: one in a weekly series of photos taken (or noted) by me, which occasionally, but not always, have a good fermentable as subject.
Here's a retrospective of the fifty-two images I selected for 2020. Clicking on a thumbnail will take you to the full image.
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What's up?
Of my fifty-two selections in 2020:
- 37 images, or 71%, were NOT of a fermentable, comestible, or related subject.
- Thus, only 15 (29%) were.
- 19 images (36%) were of 'nature.'
- 17 (32%) were of structures or objects (not including breweries).
- 6 (11%) were focused on people, primarily or tangentially.
- 8 (15%) were of art in one form or another.
- 3 images (5%) were in black-and-white (of which none were beer-related).
That compares to 2019, when:
- 34, or 65%, were NOT of a fermentable, comestible, or related subject.
- Thus, 18 (35%) were.
- 24 (46%) were images of 'nature.'
- 11 (21%) were of structures (not including breweries).
- 11 (21%) were black-and-white images (of which 4 were beer-related).
- 6 (11%) were focused on people.
- 3 (2%) were of art.
The figures don't reflect a sum, as a category may be a subset of another.
Examining the images of the previous six years, 2015-2020, here are how my selections have changed, vis-a-vis fermentables:
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2020 | 2019 |
2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
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| Beer |
12 | 10 | 12 | 28 | 34 | 34 |
| Brewery/Pub |
8 | 12 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 20 |
| Cask ale |
1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| Wine |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Whiskey/Liquor |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Food |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 5 |
As above, the figures don't reflect a sum, as a category may be a subset of another: such as breweries also appearing under beer, food also under brewpub/brewery, etc. But the trend, again, in undeniable. The
artsy-fartsy has grown at the expense of beer.
Here are links to the image retrospectives for the years 2014 through 2019:
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And, finally...
Many of the remainder of my 20,000+ photographs and images can be seen at
Flickr. Additionally, I have an
Instagram account. There, I post with even less of a good-fermentable focus than here.
This year, for my inaugural
Pic(k) of the Week, I posted —on Saturday, 2 January 2021— an image, not of a good fermentable, but of a good comestible. It was a
bowl of spinach soup (vegetarian, of course; '
vegan,' if you must). Recipe included.
And, so, the cycle begins anew.
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