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One little mistake and the whole pattern has changed forever. I didn't noticed when or where I made a wrong tie. Just like life, one little mistake will change your path through life forever, and you may never get to know why...
Classical Mistake, wife goes on a weekend trip with chocolate (After Eight) in cupboard :-) #84 of 365
Photo courtesy Yahia El Nazer
In the context of newspapers mistakes, I remembered this photo published in Gomhoria newspaper about one year ago.
Comment reads: one of king Farouk's friends in a hunting excursion!
It is not only the lack of knowledge that caused the false label, but also the lack of manners that made the author imply that the wife of king Farouk is his mistress!
I went to take a photo of this sunset the other night, not realizing the camera was set on monochrome.
I decided I like it though, especially the bird flying by.
I have to admit, this one was tough. While I look at my life and think, to this point, I don't have any regrets, I do look back and realize I've had some pretty good screw ups. I think my biggest mistake was not speaking up when I should have. There are a few instances in particular that I can think of, but in general, not speaking up for what I believed in - what I believed to be RIGHT - what I believed to be TRUE. At this point in my life, I've learned that it doesn't matter what others think - I will stand up for what I believe in - and I will SPEAK truth, no matter what anyone says or thinks.
I’ve been wanting to take a city break in summer, rather than in the cold months for a while, so rather than heading for the Lake District for a week of toil on the fells when Jayne could get a week off, we took off from Liverpool for Paris. Flight times were nice and sociable but it meant we were on the M62 car park at a busy time in both directions – it’s a shambles! I’ve stopped over in Paris a dozen times – on my way to cycling in the Etape du Tour in the Alps or Pyrenees – and had a few nights out there. Come to think about it and we’ve spent the day on the Champs Elysees watching the final day of the Tour de France with Mark Cavendish winning. We hadn’t been for a holiday there though and it was a bit of a spur of the moment decision. Six nights gave us five and a half days to explore Paris on foot. I had a good selection of (heavy) kit with me, not wanting to make the usual mistake of leaving something behind and regretting it. In the end I carried the kit in my backpack – an ordinary rucksack – to keep the weight down, for 103 miles, all recorded on the cycling Garmin – and took 3500 photos. The little Garmin is light and will do about 15 hours, it expired towards the end of a couple of 16 hour days but I had the info I wanted by then. This also keeps the phone battery free for research and route finding – I managed to flatten that once though.
What can I say – Paris was fantastic! The weather varied from OK to fantastic, windy for a few days, the dreaded grey white dullness for a while but I couldn’t complain really. We were out around 8.30 in shorts and tee shirt, which I would swap for a vest when it warmed up, hitting 30 degrees at times, we stayed out until around midnight most nights. It was a pretty full on trip. The security at some destinations could have been a problem as there is a bag size limit to save room in the lifts etc. I found the French to be very pragmatic about it, a bag search was a cursory glance, accepting that I was lugging camera gear, not bombs around, and they weren’t going to stop a paying customer from passing because his bag was a bit over size.
We didn’t have a plan, as usual we made it up as we went along, a loose itinerary for the day would always end up changing owing to discoveries along the way. Many times we would visit something a few times, weighing the crowds and light etc. up and deciding to come back later. I waited patiently to go up the Eiffel Tower, we arrived on Tuesday and finally went up on Friday evening. It was a late decision but the weather was good, the light was good and importantly I reckoned that we would get a sunset. Previous evenings the sun had just slid behind distant westerly clouds without any golden glory. It was a good choice. We went up the steps at 7.30 pm, short queue and cheaper – and just to say that we had. The steps are at an easy angle and were nowhere near as bad as expected, even with the heavy pack. We stayed up there, on a mad and busy Friday night, until 11.30, the light changed a lot and once we had stayed a couple of hours we decided to wait for the lights to come on. This was a downside to travelling at this time of year, to do any night photography we had to stay out late as it was light until 10.30. The Eiffel Tower is incredible and very well run, they are quite efficient at moving people around it from level to level. It was still buzzing at midnight with thousands of people around. The sunset on Saturday was probably better but we spent the evening around the base of the Tower, watching the light change, people watching and soaking the party atmosphere up.
Some days our first destination was five miles away, this is a lot of road junctions in a city, the roads in Paris are wide so you generally have to wait for the green man to cross. This made progress steady but when you are on holiday it doesn’t matter too much. Needless to say we walked through some dodgy places, with graffiti on anything that stays still long enough. We were ultra-cautious with our belongings having heard the pickpocket horror stories. At every Café/bar stop the bags were clipped to the table leg out of sight and never left alone. I carried the camera in my hand all day and everywhere I went, I only popped it in my bag to eat. I would guess that there were easier people to rob than us, some people were openly careless with phones and wallets.
We didn’t enter the big attractions, it was too nice to be in a museum or church and quite a few have a photography ban. These bans make me laugh, they are totally ignored by many ( Japanese particularly) people. Having travelled around the world to see something, no one is going to stop them getting their selfies. Selfies? Everywhere people pointed their cameras at their own face, walking around videoing – their self! I do like to have a few photos of us for posterity but these people are self-obsessed.
Paris has obviously got a problem with homeless (mostly) migrants. Walk a distance along the River Seine and you will find tented villages, there is a powerful smell of urine in every corner, with the no alcohol restrictions ignored, empty cans and bottles stacked around the bins as evidence. There are families, woman living on mattresses with as many as four small children, on the main boulevards. They beg by day and at midnight they are all huddled asleep on the pavement. The men in the tents seem to be selling plastic Eiffel Tower models to the tourists or bottled water – even bottles of wine. Love locks and selfy sticks were also top sellers. There must be millions of locks fastened to railings around the city, mostly brass, so removing them will be self-funding as brass is £2.20 a kilo.
As for the sights we saw, well if it was on the map we tried to walk to it. We crossed the Periphique ring road to get to the outer reaches of Paris. La Defense – the financial area with dozens of modern office blocks – was impressive, and still expanding. The Bois de Boulogne park, with the horse racing track and the Louis Vuitton Centre was part of a 20 mile loop that day. Another day saw us in the north east. We had the dome of the Sacre Couer to ourselves, with thousands of tourists wandering below us oblivious of the entrance and ticket office under the church. Again the light was fantastic for us. We read that Pere Lachaise Cemetery or Cimitiere du Pere Lachaise was one of the most visited destinations, a five mile walk but we went. It is massive, you need a map, but for me one massive tomb is much the same as another, it does have highlights but we didn’t stay long. Fortunately we were now closer to the Canal St Martin which would lead us to Parc de la Villette. This was a Sunday and everywhere was both buzzing and chilled at the same time. Where ever we went people were sat watching the world go by, socializing and picnicking, soaking the sun up. As ever I wanted to go up on the roof of anything I could as I love taking cityscapes. Most of these were expensive compared with many places we’ve been to before but up we went. The Tour Montparnasse, a single tower block with 59 floors, 690 foot high and extremely fast lifts has incredible views although it was a touch hazy on our ascent. The Arc de Triomphe was just up the road from our hotel, we went up it within hours of arriving, well worth the visit.
At the time of writing I have no idea how many images will make the cut but it will be a lot. If I have ten subtly different shots of something, I find it hard to consign nine to the dark depths of my hard drive never to be seen again – and I’m not very good at ruthless selection – so if the photo is OK it will get uploaded. My view is that it’s my photostream, I like to be able to browse my own work at my leisure at a later date, it’s more or less free and stats tell me these images will get looked at. I’m not aiming for single stunning shots, more of a comprehensive overview of an interesting place, presented to the best of my current capabilities. I am my own biggest critic, another reason for looking at my older stuff is to critique it and look to improve on previous mistakes. I do get regular requests from both individuals and organisations to use images and I’m obliging unless someone is taking the piss. I’m not bothered about work being published (with my permission) but it is reassuringly nice to be asked. The manipulation of Flickr favourites and views through adding thousands of contacts doesn’t interest me and I do sometimes question the whole point of the Flickr exercise. I do like having access to my own back catalogue though and it gives family and friends the chance to read about the trip and view the photos at their leisure so for the time being I’m sticking with it. I do have over 15 million views at the moment which is a far cry from showing a few people an album, let’s face it, there’s an oversupply of images, many of them superb but all being devalued by the sheer quantity available.
Don’t think that it was all walking and photography, we had a great break and spent plenty of time in pavement bistros having a glass of wine and people watching. I can certainly understand why Paris is top of the travellers list of destinations
Douglas will be delivering a new talk, "Loopage," at Yahoo on August 27 as part of the BayJax series. His description: "Software development is hampered by a specific set of design mistakes that were made in the first programming languages and repeated in everything that has been done since. And, somewhat miraculously,
JavaScript is going to make it right, radically transforming the way we write applications. Again. In the Loop of History, it has all happened
before, but it has never happened like this. This is why you should care about the emergence of server-side JavaScript and the excitement around projects like Node.js -- not because they're at the sharp end of a trend, but because they're paving the road toward the next big revolution in software."
I spotted this chair last week during my lunch at the Goodwill. I was torn about whether or not I should buy it for $35. So I snapped a picture of it and went back to work. But after work I decided to head back and pick it up on my way home. MISTAKE. As I was walking in, some woman was buying it. Oh, and then I found out it was half off too. Damn it. I would have been a great replacement for the yellow striped chair. Ah well. Live and learn.
Just discernible in the afternoon glare. In keeping with its reputation, City Rail is unable to spell Macquarie Park here, although it gets it right at Macquarie Park station..
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes. John Wooden
"Mistakes" are unintentional exposures with some simple, arbitrary image processing applied, such as "I'm Feeling Lucky" in Picasa. The results are sometimes nice to look at in their own way.
On June 24, 2017, Erie celebrated 25 years of Pride events with the 2017 Erie Pride March and Fest. It is estimated that about 750 people attended the festivities. Both local TV crews as well as the Erie Times News covered the event. MIC.com was back again this year to cover Erie Pride as part of the “Small City, Big Pride” series for Google.
About 270 people marched in the Pride Parade, which stepped up from the Zone Dance Club. Parade units included NW PA Pride Alliance, Erie County Executive Kathy Dahlkemper (who was there with staff and her openly gay son, Nate), Trigon, LBT WOmen, GE Transportation GLBTA Alliance, COmmunity United Church, TransFamily of NW PA, Eerie Roller Girls, Keystone Progress, Shember for Mayor committe, Temple Anshe Hesed, Mcdowell High School GSA, Planned Parenthood od PA Advocates, Erie Feminists United, Erie Sisters and Brothers, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Erie, Greater Erie Alliance for Equality, and Pennsylvania Equality Project.
Pride Fest in Perry Square began with a presentation to long standing LGBT groups in the region, including Identity, Erie Sisters and Brothers, Trigon, Erie Gay News, Drenched Fur, and LBT Women of Erie, as welll as a lifetime achievement award to Michael Mahler. Entertainment included Snarebear, Michelle Michaels, Jill Jamison, Misty Michaels Kall, sing Matrthew Crays, and the band Honest Mistake.
For the 4th consecutive year, Erie County Health Department and Community Health Net provided free HIV and STD testing. Info tables at Pride Fest included Adagio Health, American Cancer Society, American Civil Liberties Union of PA Northwest Chapter, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Canine Partners for Life, Community United Church, Crime Victim Center of Erie County, Drenched Fur, Eerie Roller Girls, Erie County Human Relations Commission, Erie County Suicide Prevention Task Force, Erie Vegan and Vegetarian Society, Families United Network, Inc., Lake Erie Counseling Associates, LBT Women, National Organization for Women, NWPA Chapter (NWPANOW), Pennsylvania Youth Congress, Persad Center, PNC Bank, SafeNet Center ,TransFamily of NWPA Transgender Support Group, Whispering Lake Grove, and Unitarian-Universalist Congregation of Erie/ Vendors included adultmart, Chalk It Up!, Chinese Lagoon, Dream Weaver Star, Elite Jewelry By Jasmine, Gardens of Eternity, Le-Vel, Lily’s Land of Literacy (UBAM), LuLaRoe by Anita, Pampered Chef (Uncle Pete), Phoenix Rising, Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania Adovcates, Rainbow Creations, Scentsy by Sharon, and The Cookielady
My assignment submission for the Stanford U online course How To Learn Math.
With thanks to Michael Pershan and Robert Kaplinsky for bringing this image to my attention. You can find it on Mike's excellent website: mathmistakes.org/?p=1055
This was a mistake, I shoot a photo with settings I didn't wanted, so I moved with the camera before the shot was finished... But I liked the abstract shot that came out from it :)
Player's Cigarettes "Modern Naval Craft" (series of 50 issued in 1939)
#15 HMS Sunfish ~ Chatham built "S" class submarine commissioned in 1937. She was transferred to the Russian Navy in 1944, but sunk by mistake by an RAF Liberator a couple of months later with the loss of all hands.
I have been playing with the new D300 with the Nikon 18-200mm lens. I have no bloody idea how to use them yet (well properly) and so whilst going through my lightroom import I came across this. Add a dash of white balance screwup and you have this..
...For the ladies, or better yet... For the blokes, go on send this to your woman and say it was from you!
"A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing."
~Muhammad Ali~
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while waiting for the Super moon to get above the treetops .I learned a few tricks with my camera...now I am going to crow like the rooster..because had I tried to make the flare it would not be ,,,,but because I did not understand my camera and the bulb setting and the remote it happen....so I crow ..I did something through a mistake and have learned something not sure why its important to me but I crow
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I'm not a fan of the glass pyramids in front of the Louvre. On their own merit, they're pretty cool, but now having seen the view they obstruct, I want them gone! Take from the inside, looking at the sky, ignoring the gorgeous building surrounding me on three sides.
I'm fairly exhausted today!
I brought some flowers into the studio space and started having a play around with lighting. I've been really inspired by several of my contacts here on Flickr recently (hope you know who you are!) and decided to whip out the macro lens.
I've got some good pieces in the making, but they aren't up to scratch yet, so today's offering is, well it's a reject! I'm not saying it's a terrible image, it's interesting enough to post and it's part of the learning journey that my Flickr stream has now become.
I'm far less afraid of my mistakes these days, I don't remember the quote exactly and I can't find it, but it goes something like 'Nobody sits down and creates a masterpiece, great art comes from making mistakes'...
Gettin' all philosophical on ya' now!
Strobist info: single Yongnuo YN560 behind the subject lying down on the table just over to the left on lowest power. Fired with Yongnuo wireless trigger.