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I tried to do an old-school-selfie today, but I sort of failed. This looks like all my other pictures, so uhm yeah, I guess I sort of succeeded? ;) At least I got to experiment again :)
"Failure leaves such a bitter taste in my mouth."
I've been listening to Underoath again.
Well, looks like I didn't stick with my 52 Week as well as I thought. BUT I'm not giving up! I was so over come with the stress of HAVING to upload something every week that my work just become boring and everything started looking the same. Don't get me wrong, I believe everyone has their own style, but I hated everything I was uploading. It just wasn't looking right.
So I took a break, and I actually took a vacation. I went down to Texas for two weeks to visit my family and had a blast. I was not thrilled about going, Texas has never really been my best friend. For the main fact that I hate heat and the bugs. SO MANY FREAKIN' WOOD ROACHES. UGH. But I had the best time. Although I ended up being really homesick the last few days I was there, man, saying goodbye was one of the hardest things I've had to do in a long time. I adore my family and keep close to them as much as possible. My cousin Erin and I (Who just turned 18 today, happy birthday young lady!) have been really close for a long time, she broke me down the day I left. Saying goodbye to her might have been the hardest part.
But I'm back and honestly, I'm not shooting all too much. I'm still kind of on this little break thingy, but the other day I felt like shooting just something so I took this. I feel pretty alright with it. Reminds me of the stuff I use to do when I was like 15. But I still can dig it.
I got to catch bits and pieaces of the Brooke Shaden workshop, my bud Aidan Myers got to be a part of it and I was super happy for him! Just from watching what I was able to catch, man, I felt super inspired. Listening to Brooke talk about what she does made me feel like it's honestly okay to be really weird and to try new things. She is such an inspiration to me.
Anyway, I'm not sure if I wanna count this in my 52 week or not, but for now, here's an image. I have a client shoot tomorrow so hopefully all goes well. Hope anyone that's still around to check out my work is doing great!
My mission to capture fall color at Holy Hill Basilica in Erin Wisconsin was a failure. Massive crowds and super harsh sun with a cloudless sky made me turn back. I did get this shot between rows of old dried out cornstalks, but the drab colors of the stalks look better with a monochrome treatment.
Front view from the street of house number 26. The entire town was built to house miners so they wouldn't have to make the long drive from the nearest town to the mine. All mining employees were given residence here in exchange for working the mine.
Night, near full moon hidden behind heavy cloud cover, 180 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to red, white & blue.
Click on the image, because it's best BIG on BLACK!!!
Western Forest Products #304 suffered an engine failure in 2012. The prime mover was removed for repair in Campbell River. The photo was taken October 17, 2012 in the locomotive shop at Nimpkish.
I had to wait more than 1000 hours for the failure of this bulb ;-) ...just kidding.
NO Photoshop tricks apart from stitching together 3 exposures of the same bulb and some general cleaning and enhancing techniques.
Strobist info: 1 SB-24 on the lower right, 1 SB-800 on the left.
Hint on how it`s done: www.flickr.com/photos/beatkueng/2680292558/
This is the same cat who sat in mud, walked through water, jumped in snow, wore a pumpkin hat, a jester's costume, reindeer antlers and a cat "muzzle" shaped like a hamster ball, squeezed through fences and under gates, posed in a black asphalt parking lot when it was 96 degrees out, smelled flowers in the rain, licked goop off his nose for HTT, braved postmen, construction workers, school kids, yappy dogs, and thunderstorms...
After years of going along with everything I've asked of him for the sake of a photo, he finally put his foot down. Who would have guessed it would be a Santa hat that would push him over the edge? He refused to wear it or even to look at me.
More festive holiday photo failures coming!
Explored December 15, 2015
During my last Los Angeles layover, I wanted to photograph a Space X Falcon 9 launch from this ridge in the Los Padres National Forest. By late afternoon, after I had already reached the site, I learned that the launch had been rescheduled for July 12, which means it became the first failed Falcon 9 launch since 2016.
To avoid completely failing my own "mission", I decided to stay overnight and try to capture some Milky Way nightscapes. Since I was about halfway between Vandenberg Space Force Base and Los Angeles, I expected heavy light pollution. I chose a vantage point below the mountaintop where there were no trees in the way and where I hoped the ascending ridge would block out some of the light pollution. I wasn't sure if the whole endeavor was worth the effort, but you can't win if you don't try...
After dark, I was happy to see the Milky Way with the naked eyes and my test shots proved that it was possible to tame the light dome from the nearby megacity. The real surprise, however, came in post-processing, when I realized how much detail I had actually captured in the sky.
After all, I call this a pretty successful failure and I am quite sure that I will revisit the area, be it with or without the added bonus of a possible rocket launch.
EXIF
Canon EOS-R, astro-modified by Richard Galli from EOS 4Astro
Sigma 28mm f/1.4 ART
IDAS NBZ filter
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Sky:
Vertical panorama of 2 panels, each a stack of 10x 45s @ ISO800, unfiltered & 5x 105s @ ISO3200, filtered
Foreground:
Focus stacked vertical panorama of 2 panels, each 6x 3.2s @ ISO200 during blue hour.
26015 had been declared a failure at Carnoustie whilst working the Dundee to Montrose Hillside trip,
20222 was summoned from Dundee to effect a rescue - the load was moved back into the down siding before the cl 20 took to failed cl 26 back to Dundee.
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” t.roosevelt
The morning breaks so cold... so cold
My face it looks so old... so old...
I rend my nails on the wall I've built around me
Only in the shade can I be free...
Only in the shade I can be... Me
what do you think? this is a long-exposure that has been purposefully over-processes -- I think it looks OK, but is it a success or failure?
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It is far too easy to fall into the trap of only broadcasting the good things about ourselves; our happy days, our successes, our best lives. Be it in conversation with others or more often than not through social media we want to prove to everyone else how good we are.
Photographers can be especially guilty of this. We don't want people to think we're not very good. With the trillions of photos there are there we're each trying to get people to pay attention to our images more than others. This does help to create a false impression of success rate though. It can look like everything works out perfectly each time. This is far from true though, with many having far more failures than successes.
As such I wish to start occasionally sharing some of my photography failures, starting with this real slap to the head moment. It was September 2013 and my early days of going on photo charters. Barrow Hill Roundhouse Railway Centre is a wonderfully atmospheric place and I was really looking forward to my first photography event there.
I finished work and made the dash up to Derbyshire, arriving just as the event was getting going. At the gate I handed over the money and parked up, eager to start. So I opened the boot to get my gear, unzipped my camera bag, looked at the empty space where my camera should have been, zipped up the bag and shut the boot.
I was really annoyed at myself and felt incredibly stupid. There was nothing I could do about it though so I had a quick stroll around the site to stretch my legs then headed home.
These things happen though and I laugh about it now. I imagine many of you have similar stories even if you may not want to admit to them. Not everything we do is a success but we should accept it though and show the world that the bad moments happen just as much as the good.
Monday mood
UPDATE: you can buy this print on my Etsy
www.etsy.com/listing/580964924/retrogressive-slope-failur...
Having some difficulty of late seeing the world. More succinctly, producing the frames I know are out there. When I go to post something, I feel like I am watching cable television -- many channels to choose from, but the overwhelming sense that there is nothing 'on'.
Challenging part of our passion. I lose interest in my work often, as I am sure we all do...just another one of those times I guess.
Hate the ruts.
Thanks for listening.
After catastrophic failure the Cooke Kinic had to be stripped completely. After removing 60 years of dust and cleaning up the helicoid threads it reassembled rather easily and is now smooth as silk, much better than it was before as the problem that led to its downfall must have been there before I got it.
Image made with Hugo Meyer & Co Görlitz Kinon Superior I 1:1.6 f=5 cm from Bauer Pantalux 16 mm film projector (1936)
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Damn! Laura has changed. She has grown all emotional.
Suddenly she cares for these test subjects. She really is forgetting her place in all this.
I showed her the failures room and she got angry. With a look of disgust she ran off.
Strange, for a moment I saw something else in her eyes. Hope?
Dr. John
I'm a proud failure
We're thought to fear and avoid failure.
Failure is a part of growth and shouldn't be discouraged.
All the greats have failed, it's just that we only remember their success.
Failure is a part of success, you can't have one without the other.
We learn so much more from failure than we do from success.
Failure is temporary if you keep learning from your failed attempts.
I just wish people would stop looking at failure in such a negative way and embrace it.
Have you guys failed at anything recently?
… This would Have Been an Epic Fail. Because the fog blocked the view entirely for a bit! Since I supervised the Client Support side of a university IT department, the recounting of an epic loss of memories and work is PTSD-worthy. I used to tell incoming freshmen that if the loss of something would make you cry, make very very sure you have backups! Then I followed that story with my own experience of writing a lengthy paper and the power going out and losing it all. I handled it like any reasonable, married, graduate student would. I phoned my mom and cried. ODC: hard drive epic fail
“What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion. Perhaps it is the only real religion-the only felt religion-that is left to us. Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success. Hence the profoundly significant phrase, to make good. The decalogue has been reduced to two commandments. One for the employers-the elect, the money priesthood as it were- 'Thou shalt make money'; the other for the employed- the slaves and underlings'- 'Thou shalt not lose thy job.' " ― George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Project Prometheus
Assessment report
Date 29 10 2631
>> Confidential <<
Initial contamination with the agent of P381-X9341-A showed great potential. However Dr. M03198 failed to keep the infection quarantined. After the incident, the Prometheus was sealed off. With no food supply the infected crew turned on itself. We continued to monitor the situation closely.
When the power reactor started to show signs of failure we sent in a squad to extract the sole non infected crew member. They were able to reach the pod but were ambushed. From the final video transmission we could see the target was already starting to mutate. Sending in another squad is useless.
It was decided to stop the program. We disabled the Prometheus' guidance matrix and shut down the power core remotely. The ship is now following a decaying orbit around the planet and will crash on it's surface within a few days.
Project Prometheus is terminated effective immediately.
Project Chronos is still go.
This is the first in a photographic series I'm calling Living Large, which will feature whimsical 1/64 scale model scenes built around a real object that is decidedly out of scale.
I haven't had much time to draw this month, but every second I got I spent on this. Its my first drawing I've done with meaning behind it. I'm really happy with how it came out :)
Super Moon failure. This was the closest-to-Earth full moon since 1948 and won't be this close again until 2034. We had clear skies all day but that evening clouds rolled in. At first I was glad because they would add interest/scale. But they never gave me a clear gap to shoot through. So I shot the clouds until they became too thick for the moon to provide backlight. (Moon Shots DSC_2303.jpg)
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Captured with a Nikon Df, a single Nikon SB600 flash and a Nikkor AF-S 58mm ƒ1:1.4, post processed in Lightroom using VSCO Film.
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Having done at least 500 noisy laps around my living room on Wednesday, this pesky house fly suddenly experienced catastrophic engine failure, and plummeted to the carpet! Having been quite irritated by its constant buzzing earlier, I now felt a bit sorry for it, so picked it up and placed it on the table. It was quite lethargic and stayed put for this long exposure (1.3 seconds!), before I popped it in a safe place outside.
I took this image with my MP-E 65mm lens, at around 1x magnification, f/14. It's only had a slight crop.
"Everyone needs community, Rose. Especially those who claim they do not."
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In only the second comic book he's written in over a decade, veteran writer Christopher Priest creatively deconstructs and humanizes the story of Deathstroke by confronting the mercenary's addiction to violence with his need for emotional intimacy. Known as the Terminator to all but Slade Wilson to the select few, Deathstroke turns out to be far more complex character than he's ever been written as before, thanks to an intentional focus on his failure to maintain healthy relationships with his family members and loved ones. Political subterfuge and old school badassery undercut this central theme, while a vibrant cast of supporting and guest characters provide a believable human context in which Deathstroke can inevitably wreak psychological and physical havoc. Add in the fact that the artwork is consistently excellent, and there's no question that Christopher Priest's Deathstroke is decidedly one of the best titles DC has put out in years.
The only reason I ever took a look at this run was because it was constantly being recommended on Reddit. And I'm so happy that I did - just behind Superman, Deathstroke is my favorite Rebirth title. As a comic book character, Deathstroke is so mythically badass. He has an eyepatch, Minnesota high school hockey hair, and one of the most aesthetically pleasing costumes ever created. But despite these characteristics, he's never been written as a particularly deep character; he barely got any solo attention before the Flashpoint, and in the early New 52, Deathstroke was nothing but a musclebound, Liefeld-esque bruiser. But with a writing veteran such as Priest at the reins, Deathstroke has finally received the nuanced characterization and solo attention that he's deserved since his creation. If you haven't read this yet, you NEED to!
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This shot features main and supporting characters in the run, along with several guest stars that only appeared in single issues (Clock King, Superman, Batman & Robin, The Creeper). For those who haven't read any Deathstroke yet, here are a few quick summaries of characters that might not be immediately recognizable. Fig formulas are at the very bottom!
Joseph Wilson: Deathstroke's younger son, depicted in the final version of the Ikon Suit, created by David Isherwood. Joseph is more popularly known as Jericho in traditional DC continuity.
Clock King: Appeared in DEATHSTROKE #0s and #1 as a one-off villain. And yes, he appeared in classic Silver Age garb. :)
Adeline Kane: Deathstroke's ex-wife. Hates Slade for ruining their marriage and for indirectly causing the death of Grant and the mutilation of Joseph. Doesn't like Rose.
Ja Zaki: Real name Matthew Bland - an African dictator/supervillain who is a straight-up parody of Marvel's Black Panther. Is a recurring ally/rival to Slade throughout the run.
Grant Wilson: Deathstroke's older son, deceased from the combined effects of the H.I.V.E. super-serum and the stress from his long-ago battle with the Teen Titans. Slade's guilt over Grant's death principally drives the events of the Lazarus Contract.
Wintergreen: Slade’s oldest and (arguably) only real friend. I’ll save the details of his background for you to find out. :)
NOTABLE OMISSIONS:
Dr. Villain, David Isherwood, Power Girl, Roscoe, Raptor
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Fig formulas:
Deathstroke: greyed Luke Skywalker hair, Airen Cracken head, erased General Cryptor Ninjago armor, LBM Batman torso, Simpsons S2 Marge left arm, cut Scu-Batsuit utility belt
Rose Wilson: Storm hair, SW Rebels Sabine Wren head, Hobgoblin torso, dark azure arms, S4 Musketeer CMF legs
Joseph Wilson: Captain Marvel hair, White Tiger head, Cosmic Boy torso, Batgirl utility belt, First Order AT-DP pilot legs
William Randolph Wintergreen: Count Dooku hair, J. Jonah Jameson head, Superboy arms, S12 Gamer CMF hips, sand blue legs, walkie-talkie
Adeline Kane: Narcissa Malfoy hair, Padme Naberrie head, BvS Lois Lane base
Hosun: N52 Robin hair, Draco Malfoy head, reversed S14 Clumsy Guy cmf torso, S12 Gamer CMF arms, computer board
Red Lion: LBM Red Hood CMF head, Kraven collar, NK promo fig torso, Catman CMF utility belt, Wolverine claws
Superman (Rebirth): Superman base fig w/Senate Commando legs
Clock King: Clock round plate, reversed City Beachgoer torso, Ninjago Lloyd DX hips, dark azure arms and legs
Ravager (Grant Wilson): Damian Wayne hair, N52 Nightwing head, Ninjago Jay ZX armor, 2012 Hawkeye torso, dark blue arms w/red hands, Catman CMF utility belt BvS Superman legs w/red hips
The Creeper: LBM Joker hair, S16 Strongman head, LBM Red Hood CMF cape, S12 Lifeguard CMF torso, S3 Hula Dancer CMF legs
Batman (Rebirth): Buccaneer Batman cowl, N52 Batman torso, LBM Death Metal Batman CMF arms w/dark blue hands, Helicarrier Nick Fury legs, custom-cut Disney Maleficent CMF cape
Damian Wayne (Robin): Damian base figure with Shazam hair, S15 Grim Knight arms, green short legs
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Props to Multi_Sharp for requesting this shot a couple months back! He was the only one that did so, but it definitely gave me the push to greenlight this one. :)
The massive breach has been blamed by engineers on an "embankment failure", . Two canal boats were lost into the breach and many thousands of gallons of water have flooded near by farm land . One canal boat was left hanging over the edge of the breach but this has now been pulled back.
another one. looks a lil bit like the sky me one :(
well, total failure
i'm thinking about quitting all my 365 projects..mostly bcause i just can go online for Sunday...:(((((
i'm hoping, maybe i can get an exception...
i don't wanna quitttt
Feb 7, 2009 #484