What have you learned from the "No Words" forum?

I try to tell people heading out for that once in a lifetime vacation or cruise "TAKE PHOTOS" as they will most likely forget much of it before they get home. (seniors)

My problem is when I find an image in my 'filing system' (such as it is), that not only do I not recall taking, I don't even remember being where it was taken !

Tony, I recommend healthy amounts of Omega-3s added to your diet. Flaxseed is a good source. Not only might you start remembering where you've been, you will stay regular in the process! :rolleyes:

Just how many pictures I've taken (digital) in the past 12 years and how many I'd forgot about. Now NW is my daily mental exercise trying to find the one I want, if that fails then the excuse I need to go out and take some more. Many thanks to all involved. Best regards Ken.

How much fun it is to play the double-entendre game with titles and images.

Tony, I recommend healthy amounts of Omega-3s added to your diet. Flaxseed is a good source. Not only might you start remembering where you've been, you will stay regular in the process! :rolleyes:

 

Thank you, Fred. That, however, is not now and has never been a problem for me ! (I know, TMI !)

 

I try to tell people heading out for that once in a lifetime vacation or cruise "TAKE PHOTOS" as they will most likely forget much of it before they get home.

 

These days, I have to do that on a shopping trip ! I sometimes find myself going into entirely the wrong shop, or into the shop that is now where the one I wanted used to be twenty-five years ago - or was it thirty-five ? At least I can still remember how to press a shutter button.

I've started photographing the street signs near where I park my car.

I can see this thread being used as evidence at an incompetence hearing.

Don't worry about reposting an old photo. If you forgot about it most of us probably also have.

Thank you!

near where I park my car

 

I knew there was something .. .. ..

I give it a year before I re-post the same photo. I have all web upload jpegs I've posted in NW saved to one folder, 2137 so far.

 

After finding a Raw photo that relates to the NW topic in CS5 Bridge then opening and downsizing in Photoshop, I check for a duplicate in the "Web Upload" folder and do a Get Info. If it's a year from last posted or older, I post it.

 

This also allows me a fresh look at the old image where most of the time I make it look better with a re-edit in ACR and downsize to a larger size from its previous 700 to 1000 pixels on the long end.

 

NW does test my memory of which image is related to the subject among over 1000 images filed away in over 100 folders by subject/location of the scene.

I've learned that I enjoy PN the most when I keep my mouth shut and use my photos to communicate.

That it can be fun and challenging posting to the No Words forum.

I usually do a new Photoshopped version of pictures before every post, so at least technically they're "new". However I figure that if the topic is one that recurs very often (e.g., GREEN) then I am entitled to post the obvious response from among my portfolio, just as many times as the imaginative topic shows up.

 

It's a difficult way between endless repeats of topic and topics that are so specific as to be difficult to match up.

GREEN

 

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Hi JDMvW, I may be a bit dense at interpreting the meaning of your post. Are you complaining at a lack of imagination on the part of the posters to NW forum, or do you want them to be very specific.

I'm not doing either.

 

One point was that there's no reason to complain about repetitions when the topics themselves repeat.

 

But, this being a photoforum, I couldn't resist giving photo examples just for fun.

;)

I may occasionally repost the same image when the same topic repeats. I try not to but if I tried too hard it wouldn't be fun anymore.

By way of contrast, sometimes it's interesting to play with how many different topics might be apropos of the same image.:)

I can no longer upload images to NO WORDS (or other forums) using Safari. Don't know if it is related but this started after I upgraded MAC to High Sierra. I have logged out of PN and rebooted but still no joy.

I can no longer upload images to NO WORDS (or other forums) using Safari.

 

This is different than my experience, Running High Sierra on Mac Pro 2013 and an older Air model, and both do uploads of pictures fine. Safari is also an upgrade and it seems to work as good as or better than Firefox, which I normally use.

I hate when I see a theme I know I have a picture for, but cant find the photo or its on my other computer or hard drive. I know I have it, I can see it.. but its nowhere to be found.

 

NW is fun.

I also have some difficulty finding things I know would match a topic, and tend to skip some when it's too tedious to find them, but I do occasionally remember where I left something. Considering the large number of pictures I've made in the last fifteen or so years (having started to computerize slides somewhere around 2002), it's sometimes surprising that I remember where to look for any of them.

 

I like the idea of re-examining old pictures with a new idea in mind. Sometimes a suggestion puts an old image into a completely different concept, and sometimes it's just an idea that was waiting for a thread. And sometimes a thread idea makes me go out and do a new picture. It's fun in different ways each time.

 

As for repeats, I probably do that occasionally, and I know I've done a few that were posted originally on the Nikon weekly forum, but for the most part I try not to repeat. What I usually do is process an image from the Raw, or from an old slide or other archive, with the correct size and whatnot, put it on the desktop awaiting posting, and as soon as it's gone on, I move it to another folder, so occupancy in that folder means it's already been used.

If I'm trying to locate a particular photo, searching my p/n photos, where everything is in galleries, is easier than searching my computer.

My memory for certain things, particularly actors' names (constantly going to google to see who was in that movie) has degraded over time. I'm lucky when I remember what movie I saw last weekend, never mind how it ended! But strangely, the other day there was a "button" category in No Words, and I immediately saw in my mind's eye the button on the jacket of someone whose photo I'd taken in a coffee shop over 5 years ago. This kind of thing has happened a lot when a theme comes up, so my visual memory seems to be pretty well intact when it comes to photos. It's been a lot of fun having these little details in older photos come to mind when a theme comes up. Often elements that might otherwise be secondary or a "distraction" become the significant factor in choosing a photo to use for a particular thread. Of course, finding them in my files is another matter, not always so easy. But going through folders and folders to find a certain picture often allows me to run across other photos I've forgotten about.

 

Now, will someone please start a thread called "car keys" so I can remember where I put mine last night when I came in! :rolleyes:

Mr. Sanford,

 

 

"The duplicate was on purpose to post the same photo in color and then B&W to show how the hawk virtually disappears in B&W."

 

You are far to subtle for the likes of Photonet.

 

A. T. Burke

How to keep my big mouth shut. :eek:

Well there is plenty of time for that to change. Actually (maybe) this statement is a self contradiction.

What I l;earned there are good themes with bad photography, good photography with bad themes and some good photography with good themes. But there is always fun in there somewhere. If there is a little fun or lots of fun how do you tell?

Edited December 18, 2017 by donald_miller|5