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Looks like flickr has decided to give up its niche as the best photo hosting site on the web to become like everyone else in the name of progress. Weak-minded fail IMO.
I got to hike with my drone out into the Bisti Badlands last Sept 19th, but things didn't work out. Conditions were good, but (1) it took a long time to wait for occasional hikers to pass by, and (2) I couldn't control the drone from the app. I was flying blind, so I cut the attempt short. This was about the best I could do.
Later I realized that my protective rim on the phone was preventing a good connection with the controller. Live & learn.
We remember the photo sessions that yielded gold with inspiration and nostalgia. In my experience though that are just as many or more "failed" trips which we look back on and ask: What the hell was I thinking?
A "failed" photo trip does not imply the trip wasn't otherwise fun, but rather--we failed to execute in the field. Why didn't I think of setting the ISO differently? Tripod--hah--I don't need a tripod. No don't pull over now, the shot will still be there in five minutes. I could of sworn I charged the battery. All these phrases and more you have probably uttered too.
So here's a CHEER to the failed trip, for in the mud and muck there are always a few little happy accidents, like this one.
Photo by Kevin Fedde
After the big CME a couple days ago my Fiancee and I went out Aururora hunting. Unfortunately, although the weather report said it would be completely clear, we were lied to and it was cloudy.
This session was supposed to produce photos of very serious faces. However, as long as any proper photography session is a great fun "failed" shots with big smiles cannot be avoided :)
A friend on the mountain asked if I caught Tuesday’s sunrise. I couldn’t remember so I checked my Flickr timeline and noticed I had failed to fulfill my end of the bargain. Here’s the sunrise. I apologize for the delay.
From the east overlook at Monte Sano State Park in Huntsville, Alabama.
Nikon D7200 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR
46mm
F8@1/30th
ISO 400
GND filter
DOL_2546.JPG
©Don Brown 2022
This fence behind the Mundt barn is on it's way down. This must be like the old saw, "All hat and no cattle." This is, "All hay and no cattle." I tried to tell the cows that the hay was that-a-away but they stampeded this-a-way and almost runned me over. When they ran an IQ tests on cattle, they came up with negative numbers. That's what moves the righties up the bell curve. There are more possibilities than the Mundt barn out here. I found many prizes.
As long as eDDie is around, he always finds barns for my agricultural series. I passed this place a lot and it usually had a large dump bin in the view of the barn. This was shot north of Longtown and the barn. The place is about as abandoned as this corral fence. Today, he hauled me up Taylor mountain; I showed him that in the first place.
A great sky showed up for a while and I raced north but could have found better skies a hour earlier. Any sky dictated a day of trolling around Mundt with the camera. There have been too many blank and milk skies lately... and here I am with overcast coming on.
Trail Fail is what you get when you don't get somewhere in time. In this case if I'd been five minutes sooner I could've gotten the roster shot I was aiming for with CSXT OLS SD70AC 4568. With time being pressed and two northbounds now breathing down L694's neck, there wasn't anytime to cut off for the shot. So better luck next time. At least it was recently halfass washed a week ago. Union City, Georgia July 14, 2024
92032 dragging failed 92028 on 5m11 Milton Keynes Central - Wembley depot,92028 failed at Northampton on 1m11 Glasgow Central - London Euston,photographed at Headstone Lane,Greater London on 15/04/2015
Dropping Twitter. Photoshop Animation
Original Illustration: www.yiyinglu.com/?portfolio=lifting-a-dreamer-aka-twitter...
Detail of an aborted sketch that was not what I expected. Too campy. Simply wrong.
(EDIT: That´s why it´s unbeliveable that it has gathered enough attention by enough people to make Flickr bots include it in the Explore group, which in turn has skyrocketed views and faves... Well many thanks, I appreciate it a lot, no irony... but did you read the title, Flickr bots? This was a fail!! I feel half flattered half embarrased... Well, fellow humans, thanks for visiting and favoriting and, if you are in the mood, you may have a look at other drawings I´m prouder of, here: www.flickr.com/photos/joaquinagreda/albums
Thanks again. END OF EDIT)
aerial acrobatics
[Agfa Clack with inverted lens / expired Ilford FP4 / Adonal stand dev. / July 2016]
I have no idea how long ago this failure might have happened, or for what reasons; could've been 150 years ago or more. Things don't always work out in the long run. Most societies fail in fact.... Simple disease kills most. Anyway, something to contemplate on Snaefellsnes Peninsula.
Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. It was incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on natural and man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter of which separates the Beach from the mainland city of Miami. The neighborhood of South Beach, comprising the southernmost 2.5 square miles (6.5 km2) of Miami Beach, along with downtown Miami and the Port of Miami, collectively form the commercial center of South Florida. Miami Beach's estimated population is 92,307 according to the most recent United States census estimates. Miami Beach is the 26th largest city in Florida based on official 2017 estimates from the US Census Bureau. It has been one of America's pre-eminent beach resorts since the early 20th century.
In 1979, Miami Beach's Art Deco Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Art Deco District is the largest collection of Art Deco architecture in the world and comprises hundreds of hotels, apartments and other structures erected between 1923 and 1943. Mediterranean, Streamline Moderne and Art Deco are all represented in the District. The Historic District is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the East, Lenox Court on the West, 6th Street on the South and Dade Boulevard along the Collins Canal to the North. The movement to preserve the Art Deco District's architectural heritage was led by former interior designer Barbara Baer Capitman, who now has a street in the District named in her honor.
Miami Beach is governed by a ceremonial mayor and six commissioners. Although the mayor runs commission meetings, the mayor and all commissioners have equal voting power and are elected by popular election. The mayor serves for terms of two years with a term limit of three terms and commissioners serve for terms of four years and are limited to two terms. Commissioners are voted for citywide and every two years three commission seats are voted upon.
A city manager is responsible for administering governmental operations. An appointed city manager is responsible for administration of the city. The City Clerk and the City Attorney are also appointed officials.
In 1870, a father and son, Henry and Charles Lum, purchased the land for 75 cents an acre. The first structure to be built on this uninhabited oceanfront was the Biscayne House of Refuge, constructed in 1876 by the United States Life-Saving Service at approximately 72nd Street. Its purpose was to provide food, water, and a return to civilization for people who were shipwrecked. The next step in the development of the future Miami Beach was the planting of a coconut plantation along the shore in the 1880s by New Jersey entrepreneurs Ezra Osborn and Elnathan Field, but this was a failed venture. One of the investors in the project was agriculturist John S. Collins, who achieved success by buying out other partners and planting different crops, notably avocados, on the land that would later become Miami Beach. Meanwhile, across Biscayne Bay, the City of Miami was established in 1896 with the arrival of the railroad, and developed further as a port when the shipping channel of Government Cut was created in 1905, cutting off Fisher Island from the south end of the Miami Beach peninsula.
Collins' family members saw the potential in developing the beach as a resort. This effort got underway in the early years of the 20th century by the Collins/Pancoast family, the Lummus brothers (bankers from Miami), and Indianapolis entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher. Until then, the beach here was only the destination for day-trips by ferry from Miami, across the bay. By 1912, Collins and Pancoast were working together to clear the land, plant crops, supervise the construction of canals to get their avocado crop to market, and set up the Miami Beach Improvement Company. There were bath houses and food stands, but no hotel until Brown's Hotel was built in 1915 (still standing, at 112 Ocean Drive). Much of the interior land mass at that time was a tangled jungle of mangroves. Clearing it, deepening the channels and water bodies, and eliminating native growth almost everywhere in favor of landfill for development, was expensive. Once a 1600-acre, jungle-matted sand bar three miles out in the Atlantic, it grew to 2,800 acres when dredging and filling operations were completed.
With loans from the Lummus brothers, Collins had begun work on a 2½-mile-long wooden bridge, the world's longest wooden bridge at the time, to connect the island to the mainland. When funds ran dry and construction work stalled, Indianapolis millionaire and recent Miami transplant Fisher intervened, providing the financing needed to complete the bridge the following year in return for a land swap deal. That transaction kicked off the island's first real estate boom. Fisher helped by organizing an annual speed boat regatta, and by promoting Miami Beach as an Atlantic City-style playground and winter retreat for the wealthy. By 1915, Lummus, Collins, Pancoast, and Fisher were all living in mansions on the island, three hotels and two bath houses had been erected, an aquarium built, and an 18-hole golf course landscaped.
The Town of Miami Beach was chartered on March 26, 1915; it grew to become a City in 1917. Even after the town was incorporated in 1915 under the name of Miami Beach, many visitors thought of the beach strip as Alton Beach, indicating just how well Fisher had advertised his interests there. The Lummus property was called Ocean Beach, with only the Collins interests previously referred to as Miami Beach.
Carl Fisher was the main promoter of Miami Beach's development in the 1920s as the site for wealthy industrialists from the north and Midwest to and build their winter homes here. Many other Northerners were targeted to vacation on the island. To accommodate the wealthy tourists, several grand hotels were built, among them: The Flamingo Hotel, The Fleetwood Hotel, The Floridian, The Nautilus, and the Roney Plaza Hotel. In the 1920s, Fisher and others created much of Miami Beach as landfill by dredging Biscayne Bay; this man-made territory includes Star, Palm, and Hibiscus Islands, the Sunset Islands, much of Normandy Isle, and all of the Venetian Islands except Belle Isle. The Miami Beach peninsula became an island in April 1925 when Haulover Cut was opened, connecting the ocean to the bay, north of present-day Bal Harbour. The great 1926 Miami hurricane put an end to this prosperous era of the Florida Boom, but in the 1930s Miami Beach still attracted tourists, and investors constructed the mostly small-scale, stucco hotels and rooming houses, for seasonal rental, that comprise much of the present "Art Deco" historic district.
Carl Fisher brought Steve Hannagan to Miami Beach in 1925 as his chief publicist. Hannagan set-up the Miami Beach News Bureau and notified news editors that they could "Print anything you want about Miami Beach; just make sure you get our name right." The News Bureau sent thousands of pictures of bathing beauties and press releases to columnists like Walter Winchell and Ed Sullivan. One of Hannagan's favorite venues was a billboard in Times Square, New York City, where he ran two taglines: "'It's always June in Miami Beach' and 'Miami Beach, Where Summer Spends the Winter.'"
Post–World War II economic expansion brought a wave of immigrants to South Florida from the Northern United States, which significantly increased the population in Miami Beach within a few decades. After Fidel Castro's rise to power in 1959, a wave of Cuban refugees entered South Florida and dramatically changed the demographic make-up of the area. In 2017, one study named zip code 33109 (Fisher Island, a 216-acre island located just south of Miami Beach), as having the 4th most expensive home sales and the highest average annual income ($2.5 million) in 2015.
South Beach (also known as SoBe, or simply the Beach), the area from Biscayne Street (also known as South Pointe Drive) one block south of 1st Street to about 23rd Street, is one of the more popular areas of Miami Beach. Although topless sunbathing by women has not been officially legalized, female toplessness is tolerated on South Beach and in a few hotel pools on Miami Beach. Before the TV show Miami Vice helped make the area popular, SoBe was under urban blight, with vacant buildings and a high crime rate. Today, it is considered one of the richest commercial areas on the beach, yet poverty and crime still remain in some places near the area.
Miami Beach, particularly Ocean Drive of what is now the Art Deco District, was also featured prominently in the 1983 feature film Scarface and the 1996 comedy The Birdcage.
The New World Symphony Orchestra is based in Miami Beach, under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.
Lincoln Road, running east-west parallel between 16th and 17th Streets, is a nationally known spot for outdoor dining and shopping and features galleries of well known designers, artists and photographers such as Romero Britto, Peter Lik, and Jonathan Adler. In 2015, the Miami Beach residents passed a law forbidding bicycling, rollerblading, skateboarding and other motorized vehicles on Lincoln Road during busy pedestrian hours between 9:00am and 2:00am.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Beach,_Florida
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the intrepid camera
fujinon SW 90mm f/8
agfa RSX II 100 - very expired
I had no idea what - if anything - could be expected from the 3 sheets of expired AGFA RSX in a box clearly bearing the signs of once being really wet. I decided to shoot close to home and hope for the best. Oh well... Judging by the condition of the box, these sheets had been exposed to humidity, maybe even flooded with water and then dried again. Would that explain the stains? Maybe. I am uploading this as a curiosity and a proof that film is always and adventure.
At least I got the exposure time right :)
When I upload photos to Flickr, I generally choose the least worst of literally hundreds of photos that I take. This is one of the failures.
No, I did not purchase these, and no, they are not for sale/trade.
Processed with Adobe Photoshop Elements 11, Pixelmator, Photomatix, Perfect Effects 9 for OS X
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So much happened during the year. It was a year of failed promises, foreign invasion, Ukrainian resistance, economical uncertainty…
I will shoot all weeklypics this year with Instax Wide (and the Instax Wide 300). This was intended to be a camera selfy with four cams. However, the damn camera did flash on a bright sunny day (although inside) and that ruined the picture. I hope I get better soon.
I figured I'd share these unfinished projects that have been sitting around for 7 or 8 years. I figure, if I haven't finished them yet, I never will.
With this one, I was planning on doing some sails using the Jaba's Sail Barge sails.
I was basing the design off of this concept art piece.
Beachwood Canyon, Hollywood Hills, California
09/11 PX 70 taken for Amanda Potter's Impossibly Expired project
In his ongoing effort to shine in Palpatine's eye, Stormtrooper Bruce has come up with an idea he hopes to perfect before the holiday contests begin... because you never know. And after the prank they just paid on Fett, he wants to keep things as normal as possible... because you never know.
STB: What are you two doing here? Didn't you get my wave movie night was changed to tomorrow. I'm working on a project and can't afford any interruptions or distractions. And no offense, but that's what you two are.
TK-1110: Well, pardon my interruption but what, for the love of the P, are you doing?
STB: Practicing.
TK-432: Well, pardon my distraction but ... again? After last time you still want to do this? So, what are you practicing this time?
STB: If you must know I'm working on a cheese sculpture.
TK-1110: Doesn't look like anything I recognize. What's it supposed to be?
STB: I haven't started yet. I'm still deciding. And I need some peace and quiet!
TK-432: Can we help?
STB: You mean help eat it, don't you?
TK-1110: No, of course not. Real help. Why not just slice a big chunk off on this side to get started.
STB: Guys! How am I supposed to get inspired with all this chatter?
TK-432: Chatter shmatter. If you carve off a sliver on THIS side that might inspire you.
TK-1110: Why not make a tribble, or Sorting Hat? Just take a little off the top.
TK-432: Or a Christmas tree. Or a wampa in a Santa hat.
STB: *sigh* This really isn't working. You two are NOT helping. What you did to Fettl's quarters was helpful. This isn't.
TK-1110: So... this is an epic fail?
TK-432: No way, it's a whopping success! All we need now is a box of crackers, and this might become a night we won’t ever forget!
TK-1110: So... are you going to cut the cheese or not?
STB: I know a lost cause when I see one. If I throw in a cooler of cold ones maybe this will become a night I won't ever remember.
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