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The Wonderful World of Rust

Rusty Old Garbage Bin

Rusty, peeling paint flaky rubbish bin

Disaster Has Struck – Lost Images

This is a great lesson for all of us.

A couple of days ago I lost a whole stack of photos.  I am certain they were all fantastic photographs, probably the best ones ever but now we will never know.

Yep,  lost the lot, was doing too many things at once and clicked “do you really want to cancel upload now ” by mistake ! Or it might even have been that dreaded word delete !  I was too annoyed to notice !  And in disbelief as well that they had vanished into the ether or in my case the card slot !

You know the score, not happening fast enough so you whizz off on to the next interesting thing on your computer while its happening and click back and forth, do a spot of editing, check on progress, zoom back again then wham – too late.  That dreaded red cross where a photo should be.  Not even in the deleted box, well they wouldn’t be would they when you have clicked cancel upload followed by  delete.

NEVER upload your pictures to your computer in a great rush and do a stack of  other things at the same time and especially NEVER tick the  delete images after upload  in this frame of mind.   At least you could rescue them from your camera card if you have  not  been as stupid as to do what I have just done  !

Yes, yes, I know I should know better but I was so keen to see them all and get stuck into editing the ones I quickly spotted as being fantastically amazing in the display.   No amount of griping could bring them back and I sat in front of my screen expecting them to magically reappear.  Hell, I even downloaded a program to retrieve lost images and sat waiting for them to pop up whilst I sat there in despair.

Then I remembered, the more mistakes you make the quicker you learn and the bigger the mistakes,  the more pointed the lesson !  OK, I must be a slow learner  but the point is well and truly learnt now )    Make sure you don’t do it

I have enough trouble finding the ones that are actually in there so naturally I thought I had just misplaced them and after trolling through my hard drive and turning up practically every file I had to face the inevitable.  I am a twit who should have twigged long before but I prefer to think of it as being optimistic that things would turn out. In this case not so

There are quite a few places now you are able to keep your images safe. They are no use to you if  your computer disappears, crashes or if you can’t access them so ensure that images that are precious to you are somewhere you can find.  Think about loading some of them on the various web albums, place some on your blogs or put some on Flickr or any of the others.  You can share them with friends or keep them private if you prefer but at least you will still have them.

“Web of Life – Cobwebs”

Photograph of a cobweb ( one of many !) in an old garden shed.

It was early morning when this was taken  and the light was just falling across the window and  starting to shine through and highlighted the cobweb.

Digital and CO2 emissions and energy and all that stuff

Have you ever taken a stack of photos then wondered about how much energy your digital camera takes to power up ?

Even felt slightly guilty ?

Wouldn’t you like to reduce your carbon footprint just a teensy weensy bit and get free solar energy ?

There is now a way to take all the pix you want and stay green – its to do with this “graphene photovoltaics” thingammy, which is basically a fancy pants way of saying you can solar charge your camera battery and still feel cool about your carbon footprint.

Apparently this “graphene whatsit”  is a highly conductive material that will charge up the gadget of your choice and makes it easier for you and I to keep taking photos, keep charging up and keep going !

If you could use free energy and still keep clicking then that’s got to be fantastic for us and for the planet. So if we could get our hands on a solar charger for our cameras it’d be faaaaantastic.    How good would it be ?

It’d be a bit like having your cake and eating it too wouldn’t it ?

Now,I know nothing about all of this but someone who does know is  Sophia Walker who writes for the http://solarcharger.org.uk/“>solar charger</a> blog,  her personal hobby web site centered on tips to help individuals save electricity using solar power for small devices.

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Flax Leaf – Macro shot

Primitive Art – ‘Carved Head’

How cool is this ?  Just attended a horticulture course on soil and composition and this was part of the exercise to see how different soils would bind together and spotted this face that looked like an native carving – even the hair is there !

One of the other students created this “sculpture” from his piece of clay from his own garden.   Amazing how simple things can create a great shot.

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‘The Portal’ Edited Photo

Edited basic photo of decaying doorway with concrete block

See What Pops Up When You Really Take a Look

Found these cool faces within the interior of an old dried up seedpod stem the other day.  It was a kind of flax type stem and when I split it open it looked interesting enough to haul out the camera and see what came up.

When I was editing it I spotted all sorts of things including the “Devils Face” that you can see here in this shot which I picked out of  the other photo you can see here.  Look closely at the other photo and you will see where the “Devil Face” is located.

The piece of string reminded me of some of the line drawings like Matisse and others have done but really it could be anything.   Try it yourself from different angles, take a look at doing some shots of things lying around  and use some creative cropping to see what sort of interesting images and abstracts you end up with.

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