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For some reason, I must have knocked the ISO up to 6400 (didn't mean too).
Liked the atmosphere in this one though.
Greece
April 2014
Mamiya Press Standard
Lens: 90mm f3.5
Red filter
6x9
Kodak TriX 400
Developed in Fomadon R09 14min, fomafix
Note: The Sun was too strong for what i was trying to do, or achieve, and i wanted to do this with red filter for dramatic effect, but i didn't expect this :) Anyway, its a mistake to learn from, but the burning sun ray effect is not all that bad i think.. ;)
When you do 30 sec exposures and forget to change from continuous shooting to single - and wander off with the tripod on your shoulder while the camera keeps on shooting.. ;)
Several days ago, just before the 6 day rain started, we cleaned out and rearranged our bird houses. Over the week, I've seen the chickadees checking out several different houses. This afternoon my wife opened one of the houses and to her shock and surprise, the chickadees have built a full nest in less than a week in the house. Unfortunately, the chickadee was in the house when she opened it. The poor chickadee was startled and very mad. It fussed for quite a while afterward. We won't make that mistake again. I put out extra worms to try to make amends.
The Mistake
by Andrea Perego
from the book Red Moons and Cornflowers (by Andrea Perego and Daniela Biscontin, 2015)
Berlin, today.
James and Laura meet casually after many years. Their love is still alive under their formal conversation. Was it a mistake? Is it a mistake?
In the images: detail of Le baiser (Francesca da Rimini), 1882, and Fugit Amor, 1885, by August Rodin, Musée Rodin, Paris
Music: Gioacchino Rossini, Guglielmo Tell Overture
"we'll play, play, play all the same old games
And we wait, wait, wait for the end to change
And we take, take, take it for granted
That will be the same
But we're making all the same mistakes.."
This was tangled for the Diva Challenge 153, two weeks ago (or 3? Anyway...). It is Molligon. If you want to know why I call it "Molligon mistake gone" you can read that story on my blog (yea, I have a blog now): www.tanglesome.de .
From Florida
Undecided about the text
Trying to catch up on all of your streams
Just when life was getting good, it turned bad again
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Disclaimer: Yes I know her face is out of focus. Read on to find out why I didn't use a different shot that was sharp :)
This is Pamela, a friendly and chatty lady from Taiwan, here on a working holiday. She works at a designer handbag shop nearby but her own style, she says, is different even though she appreciates the beauty of the bags as well. Pamela knows a lot about fashion, and she told me how she likes to coordinate her colours, red and black being one of her favourites. Of course that was the reason I spotted her near this red wall that I'd been planning to use for a while but didn't see anyone who would go with it!
Pamela and I had a long talk, interrupted only by her friend's phone call that she then had to take and we said our goodbyes. We discussed Korean 'oversized' style fashion; travel in Europe and Asia, including Japan (Pamela also speaks some Japanese so we bonded over that); she recommended some places in south and east Taiwan to visit, and admitted to being a big foodie as she is from the south as well.
As for why it's this shot that I decided to use, despite the obvious flaw (shooting at f/2.2 is tricky enough whent he subject isn't laughing like Pamela was, so it's kind of my fault)... well, I think this was the one shot that best represented what a portrait full of personality should be, and how I remember my time with Pamela. Sure, I directed her for some other shots, and they look good, but they don't capture her energy as well as this one does - I love everything about it apart from the focus issue.
I wrote about this dilemma in my retrospective post about my first 100 Strangers round on my blog (the bit about this is near the end) - using the best shot technically speaking, or the best shot with personality? In the first round I often went with the former, but now I want to show that yes, even 'seasoned' street portraitists can make mistakes like this, and that I am brave enough to put this out there and admit that I still like it. Yes I will forever regret not having an in-focus version, but that's street photography for you - you have a few minutes and that's it, as in Pamela's case the image looked sharp on my LCD preview so I left it at that.
I hope you still enjoy this portrait of Pamela laughing with her guard down... and here's hoping it will push you to consider how you choose the 'best' shot and what that means in that particular case :)
I took this one from the hip. I like how it turned out.
Canon Elan 7n | Canon EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 II USM Lens | CVS 400 | Processed at CVS | Epson Perfection V750 Pro
D810
AF-S 24-120mm ƒ/4G VR @ 120mm
SB-910 + Westcott Apollo Orb (TTL)
SB-910 w/Diffusion Dome (M @1/2)
Triggered via the Built-in Flash (Commander)
Manual Exposure w/FP Flash Sync
1/500th sec @ ƒ/4 @ ISO 6400
Picture Control: Monocrome + Green Electronic Filter
Captured as NEF (RAW)
Processed via Capture NX-D
Silver Efex Pro 2
Mistakes happen.
This one was a very happy mistake!!
I hadn't reset my camera from the last shot in Las Vegas. I had left the ISO set at 6400 ISO while playing around with LED lighting.
The first image of the new day was a wireless flash image of Greyson. The resulting over-exposed image had a stark, almost pencil drawing look to it.
After processing the NEF file and tweaking the brightness and contrast, Silver Efex Pro 2 offered a pretty cool vignette effect.
I don't often play with the post-processing part, but in this case, it worked pretty well.
I love it when I make mistakes... and get to learn something new.
For the ultra-anal out there... The SB-910 + Apollo Orb was placed just out of the frame, camera right. The SB-910 with the dome was placed above and slightly behind Greyson, camera left.
20 years ago Broadway Video had us shoot a pilot for sketch comedy show which lead to David Koechner getting signed to SNL for the 95-96 season. There were three bits in the show, this was the main bit, Dave as the slippery hillbilly Gerald, who later became known as T-Bones on the Naked Trucker. This is a remaster, which you really can't tell. Shot on Beta SP, looks muddy in HD. Still some funny stuff. Dave kills in this.
Please do not look at the photographic quality of the image. I know it sucks :D
Just wanted to share this rare flower i saw while walking through the garden... One of nature's spelling mistakes..
Z6
A quick grab from the Jerry Ghionis Workshop at Paul's Photo this past weekend.
The sun was coming in straight at her eyes causing them to tear up. We convinced her to power through and let the tear run down her cheek.
I'm pretty sure that this was just Witty messing around one day. After seeing the Sirenix Witty Prototypes that everyones thinks are Jakks, I have confirmed this was just a promo image for the Witty clothes with Jakks bodies. Jakks and Witty have been working closely together as we have seen with the box art etc.
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While working on the Tiger Head and using Rhino 3D dispaly settings this image was created by mistake.
...proof that you are trying.
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The Jesuits arrived in Brazil and thought they would be making a great charity converting to Christian religion the true owners of the land....
Statue in Maranhão Square, downtown. Belém. Pará.
Filleted lugged direct mount brake high performance fat tire road bike. Every braze on is hand filed, sculpted or custom machined giving you lots of details to discover the closer you look. Carefully painted by Conor at Metal guru. All contact points, drop outs, braze on’s and internal cable routing ports are stainless. But make no mistake this bike is meant to be ridden as hard as you can dish out. ee direct mount brakes, Campagnolo SR group, WTO wheels, Deda cockpit built up by Tommy at Cutlass Velo and photographed by Keith
I was trying to focus on the evergreen needles to get some blue bokeh in the background and this happened. I like it but I probably couldn't reproduce it if I tried.
Friday = BLUE
Color My World Daily
divided into 2:5:2.
1:r(2) for inner structure.
this structure is widely available to create creatures with 4 legs and wings (or some additional 2 parts).
Donald Trump hasn’t blown it yet, but it’s a close call. His tendency to hubris and self-delusion risks destroying his presidency. He has made too many mistakes, under-estimated China, been played for a fool by Vladimir Putin, embraced flat-earth economics and alienated allies.
His second term has so far been characterised by performative chaos, market volatility, obscene levels of cultishness, and zero strategic planning when it comes to decoupling from China. He has empowered know-nothing sycophants, especially Peter Navarro on trade and Steve Witkoff on Russia and Iran. He won’t meaningfully reindustrialise the Rust Belt, and many of the red-pilled Wall Streeters and Silicon Valley founders who support him fear America is about to be plunged into recession thanks to his imbecilic import taxes.
His victories in the culture wars are being cancelled out by his economic and geopolitical self-sabotage, to the great chagrin of those who hoped, against all hope, that he would prove to be the West’s liberator from the forces of socialism and wokery.
Instead, Trump risks losing control of the narrative, taking down Right-wing parties in Australia and Canada with him, damaging the prospects of his friend Nigel Farage and providing succour to the never-Trumpers. Javier Milei, the anarcho-capitalist president of Argentina, has turned out to be a better role model.
Yet while Trump can be stubborn, he is also eminently adaptable, especially when the polls turn against him. Self-interest will surely push him into signing trade deals with friendly countries, despite his nonsensical belief that America should be in surplus with every single nation. His voters hate higher prices, and he will seek to give them what they want, which is why I haven’t given up hope that his second term will end up being a net positive for America and Western civilisation, especially if he finally sees sense on Ukraine.
Trump has already scored some notable wins. He has dramatically reduced illegal immigration into the US. His war on woke and DEI has been extraordinarily successful, and he is now turning against universities such as Harvard. The President is deploying civil rights law to impose colour-blind policies on institutions that spent years engaging in disgraceful anti-white and anti-Asian discrimination.
He is cracking down on the scourge of anti-Semitism. He is seeking to deport green card holders who support Hamas. Some mistakes are being made, but the overall direction of travel is excellent. He has ditched net zero, arguing that market forces and technology, not central planners, should determine energy policy. Elon Musk has eviscerated the useless Department of Education, and the foreign aid budget, used to fund Left-wing NGOs globally, has been gutted. Here too there have been errors, but on balance, these are historic victories for conservatives.
Yet all of these triumphs are being overshadowed by a series of contradictions in Trump’s thinking on economics and world affairs. He understands that America is no longer the world’s hegemon, a realisation that informs his views on military intervention, but then promptly acts as if he retained supreme power over a bevvy of vassals prepared to take endless humiliation, punishment, tariffs or other betrayals.
America in 2025 needs allies – not just bullied, resentful liegemen desperate to find an alternative protector – if it is to build an anti-China coalition, or promote “friendshoring”, or more generally save the West. Yes, Trump should coax European countries into spending more on defence and to ditch their absurd Left-wing declinism, but he also needs to woo and inspire the rest of the Western world by building a Reaganesque “shining city on a hill”.
He takes for granted the benefits (“exorbitant privilege”) that come with the dollar’s status as the dominant reserve currency, including the power to hand over worthless green paper to other countries in return for cheap loans, goods and services, but also wants to devalue the dollar, flirts with the idea of defaulting on some of the US debt and persists in undermining the global financial system that supports American profligacy.
Trump, a capitalist on all else, has always been a socialist on trade, as the University of Warsaw’s Andrzej Kozlowski argues, assuming governments can simply instruct their citizens and enterprises to purchase more US goods. He wants to unwind the post-1945 American empire, but proposes to annex Canada and Greenland. Trump believes in peace through strength, but his administration has yet to demonstrate much of the latter. Yes, China was hit by massive tariffs, but the President has already partly climbed down. What, exactly, has Russia conceded on Ukraine? What sort of “negotiation” is this? Trump himself is losing patience, which is good: he needs to drastically toughen up on Putin. On Iran, Witkoff may be vying for an intolerable Obama-style deal.
Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that parts of the Maga movement are embracing a form of Right-wing wokery, with their own dark conspiracy theories, cult of victimhood, identity politics, denial of reality, moral grandstanding, hypersensitivity and purity tests.
In this vein, whingeing about trade deficits deserves to be dismissed as “critical trade theory”, the Trumpian corollary of critical race theory: it postulates, nonsensically, that any shortfall with a foreign country must be caused by unfair practices, oppression or historic injustice. The “woke Right”, a term coined by James Lindsay, is almost as much of a turn-off as the original Left-wing variety.
Eric Kaufmann, the University of Buckingham academic, worries about Trumpian amoralism, and fears that sensible arguments on immigration or gender are being lost through over-reach or the abuse of due process. “Owning the libs”, “might makes right” and displays of proto-Nietzschean or Greco-Roman ruthlessness fires up the Maga base, but may make floating voters uneasy.
Yet it is economics, not ethics, that will ultimately determine whether Trump succeeds or fails. He was elected to make America richer; his protectionist escapades are making it poorer. For the sake of the West he was meant to rescue from terminal decline, it’s time for an urgent course correction.
We took a drive to Sumner on Good Friday as it was such a beautiful day. Sumner is a short drive from the city. This shot was taken on top of Scarborough hill looking over towards Taylors Mistake, March 29, 2013 Christchurch NZ.
Te Onepoto / Taylors Mistake is a locality in New Zealand, at the south eastern extremity of Christchurch city. Taylors Mistake is a bay adjacent to the locality, on the north side of Godley Head, on the northern edge of Banks Peninsula.
The name Te Onepoto / Taylors Mistake is one of New Zealand's dual placenames. The Māori portion, Te Onepoto, means short or little beach. For the English portion, the Lyttelton Times in 1865 said it was "originally called Vincent's Bay, and more recently Taylors Mistake, owing to the master of a vessel running in here during the night-time, thinking he was about to pass over the Sumner Bar."
Taylors Mistake Surf Life Saving Club was established at the beach in 1916. During World War II, hills above the beach were fortified with two machine gun posts, to guard the Godley Head coastal defence battery. Makeshift baches near the beach have been a source of dispute since they were constructed in the 1890s.
For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te_Onepoto_/_Taylors_Mistake