Minolta AF-C, 35mm f/2.8, Kodak T-max 400 (200), Spur Acurol-N 1:50, 10 min., 20 Celsius degrees

A few miles downstream from Niagara Falls are these amazing class 6 whitewater rapids, see link for video.

www.niagaraparks.com/visit/attractions/white-water-walk

Paris, BNF Richelieu

Make it so number 2

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

- Marilyn vos Savant

＠20200220　東京都港区/赤坂　PentaxQ-S1+SMC-P8.5ｍｍｆ1.9

While setting up this image of the Block Building of Contemporary Art I noticed a young lady studying her reflection. How timely.

Thanks for the views, comments, faves, and your loyal patronage of taking your precious time to view my photography.

Mike D.

You probably thought what I did: If I post to an award group that requires 3 awards, then I should expect 3 awards, on average. Obviously, any given photo will get more or less, but you figure on average you should get as much as you give, right? WRONG!!

I’ve done a systematic study of how many awards the different award groups give out, and the bottom line is this: The half of Flickrites who do actually give out rewards get nothing in return from the other half of the Flickrites who post and run.

If you’re posting and running, shame on you. If you’re posting and being honest, then you should check out the list below to see which award groups are best and worst.

Details of the study are below; I welcome any data that the group admins wish to share, or from anyone would like to validate these findings. I realize my sample is small and would like to get more data...

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Purpose: Do you get as many rewards as you give in Flickr award groups?

Method: Sample 20 Flickr award groups. Go to page 24 and count the number of awards given to the first 12 pictures; this is deep enough in the pool that awards have stopped, but not so deep that many images have been pulled. I validated a sample of 12 was sufficient.

Result: From a total sample of 240 images posted to award groups, you get 59% of the awards you give out, or roughly you have to give two awards in order to get one. There is huge variation amongst the groups, as you’ll see in table below.

Discussion: At a practical level, it appears that there are two things that contribute to a higher percentage of reciprocity. First, group cohesion makes a difference—for example Shining Star has a relatively higher percentage because many of the members are contacts with each other. Second, a mechanical pool sweeper, if properly used, makes a HUGE difference, e.g. Global Village 2 and Flickr Hearts. The results also show that there are lots of Flickrites who don’t play by the rules. In the case of group awards, without a pool sweeper there is absolutely no penalty for posting and running because there’s no way to get caught.

Group averages… For example, A+++ has 70%, meaning that for every A+++ award you give, you get 0.7 back… Some of the averages are above 100% because of sampling error, and because of multiple invites.

My Winners, 116%

Better Than Good, 116%

Global Village 2, 110%

Flickr Hearts, 88%

A+++, 70%

The Other Village, 70%

Shining Star, 68%

Music to My Eyes, 64%

Dragon Fly, 63%

Flickr Stars (newer one), 62%

Flickr Rose, 60%

Flickr Special, 56%

Perfect Photographer, 40%

Abstract Art Awards, 40%

Photographers Gone Wild, 37%

Peoples Choice, 37%

Colour Art Awards, 30%

Eperke, 24%

Flickr Stars (older one), 20%

I Think This is Art, 7%

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Monroe, Louisiana, 1974

Study in Pink at Longwood Gardens

2013_03_24_5509-Edit v1

Toward the end of the afternoon lesson, a group of young monks finished memorizing their scriptures at Chimi Lhakhang.

Please see Winter studies set www.flickr.com/photos/wendycoops224/sets/72157632268275117/

Motion Studies - InfraRed (IR) 950nm Filter

Amberg off-street, 2021.

1987 Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2 Speedster Studie at the Porsche Museum, Stuttgart.

Recently I’ve been trying to improve my non-character drawings, so I decided to draw a few trees and rocks and stuff. So, yeah, here’s the fruits of my labour! You got some trees, some rocks, and some more rocks, real exciting stuff.

Anyways, that’s all I have to say in this post, so.... bye! XD

-Marley Mac-

Moleskin, doodle on gesso , just a study of my colors ( nutwater),

Thanks for the visit, have a wonderful day.

Studying – Blue pencils in a pot in front of book stack. Strobe : 1 * 1/64 through softbox behind the scene with white reflectors front right (huge) and left (small) triggered by cactus V5.

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Credits: topfashionista.wordpress.com/2015/02/08/studying/

Why a fire is such a fascinating thing to look at is hard to define for me, freezing the rapid movement of very hot flames and bringing out their details in a photo makes them easily as fascinating to look at for me.

Macro study of ice puddle lying on short cut

grass. Photo taken in Barnet, Hertfordshire,

UK in mid-March 2013.

Position: This photo has been taken in Cardano Al Campo, Varese, Lombardia, Italy

While my daughter studies Sox likes to ensure she is studying the correct sections

using a Cokin Filter to high light the clouds

....just a little more

a view from my front door

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Occupy Hong Kong 2014

- the 79 days (28/9/2014 - 15/12/2014)

141010, Admiralty, Hong Kong

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Mayra Andrade - Stória Stória

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qiMl1KQvy0&list=PLSQ7D5zRPvu...

Study

I've started to study the wings of my bumblebee. So mane names! My school Latin became pretty handy. But even after reading about it there are still holes in my drawing. Places, that I don't know how to draw properly.

Studying math