Pic of the week game

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Spyder
Send me a link to the pic or post the link here, maybe I can grab it and do something with it.

[Spyder]

I can't get that far with it. I will see what I can do from home, on one of my computers.

[Baatfam]

OH, how I loathe PhotoSuckit... I have a couple old pictures for this STUCK in Photobucket. I can see them! When I try to do anything about it (download, save, remove, ANYTHING) POP-UP. If I use my computer here at work, my antivirus flags it as a malicious website. I want my pictures BACK ! ! !

I'm in the same boat. I can't even see my old PB pics.
I have a couple I can use, but I have to find the one I'm looking for. Its several years old, and I don't remember what I took the picture with.

Surely you both have the photos on a hard drive somewhere?

I haven't been back to PB since it imploded...Guess I should go back and close my account.

[Rob S.]

That's why I distrust the cloud. Never use Twitter, Snap Chat or Instagram. I don't even like to text.

A decade or so ago, I tried Facebook for a few days, using a fake D.O.B. An old friend who I wasn't interested in communicating with wished me a happy fake birthday. Another friend's older sister asked me to work on her virtual farm. Toss in unfavorable articles in Time and The New York Times, and I wanted to wash my hands of it. Only it doesn't work that way...

I'm certain that my name and fake birthday still reside in a server farm deep in the desert.

[Baatfam]

Thanks for dropping in, Rob. You are certainly welcome to join in the game.

[dorkburger]

Surely you both have the photos on a hard drive somewhere?

I haven't been back to PB since it imploded...Guess I should go back and close my account.

I had an A-ha moment yesterday. The pic I was looking for was on an old card from my old point and shoot digital camera. I popped it into my new camera, found it, and sent it to my phone via Wi-Fi, which saved me from looking thru my ancient laptop computer which is in the basement.... somewhere.
The pic wasn't very good though.

[Baatfam]

I had an A-ha moment yesterday. The pic I was looking for was on an old card from my old point and shoot digital camera. I popped it into my new camera, found it, and sent it to my phone via Wi-Fi, which saved me from looking thru my ancient laptop computer which is in the basement.... somewhere.
The pic wasn't very good though.

That is why a good DAM is critical if you enjoy photography.
That, and being aggressive about culling, and key-wording, your work.
But to be honest, culling/key wording is something I have been historically bad at.

I still use Lightroom 6 as my DAM...
It is good, and will work for me until I get a newer camera, being an old version.
Thinking about trying Photo Mechanic, which seems to be highly regarded. But $139?

Since it is winter (sort of), and I am on puppy duty most days, I am working on my photo file mess.
Culling through all my photos, deleting ones that are bad/duplicates/not needed, and adding missing key words.
Deleted about 7-800 photos so far, but have thousands to go through yet.
And I've added key words to several hundred, but....but...Still have about 8,000 without any key words at all....

[Spyder]

I don't use Photosuckit anymore. But, when I went to download all of the pics I have there, only half would download. That was over a year ago, and I just haven't had the time, and the thought at the same time to figure out why the rest are being held hostage. I MIGHT have them all on an old laptop, or hard drive somewhere. I'll get them eventually, and finally close my account out...

[dpep]

Okay, I had to stretch for this one. I had nothing on the moon theme and I did not want to miss two weeks straight.

The propeller in this shot is from one of 8 planes, O-1 Bird Dogs, that were satchel charged by the NVA in the opening minutes of the Tet offensive shortly after midnight 01/31/1968. They were on the airstrip in Hue city. Some of the shrapnel marks are visible in the pic. I thought it would be a cool thing to have as a souvenir and somehow jumped through the paperwork hoops to have it shipped back. It now sits in a corner of my living room for no reason.

If I had waited to right about now (4:50 Eastern) I would have had much better lighting, but I am not going to wrestle that damn thing back out the yard again.



Here is the type of plane it was on.

[Baatfam]

Very cool, Don!

[Baatfam]

Happy New Year Gang!!

Two years ago, Roger (Burgue73) brought us this game.
It has very fun, and continues to gain participants.

Thank you for that, Roger!

Can't wait to see where 2020 goes.

Two more days to put up an entry for this week.
The rules are on page one.
The theme this week is "Military Salute"

[Redman]

And Where O-1 Bird Dogs the planes you flew , Don? (recognonice, right?).

[Burque73]

Happy New Year Gang!!

Two years ago, Roger (Burgue73) brought us this game.
It has very fun, and continues to gain participants.

Thank you for that, Roger!

Can't wait to see where 2020 goes.

Two more days to put up an entry for this week.
The rules are on page one.
The theme this week is "Military Salute"

You're welcome. I've enjoyed this thing too and look forward to seeing it continue in 2020.


I have wondered what Frank, the administrator, thinks of this thread. Must be a huge amount of data on his server. Hopefully it's not too much of a burden, especially since most of these pics are really just links.

[cowboyup3371]

You're welcome. I've enjoyed this thing too and look forward to seeing it continue in 2020.


I have wondered what Frank, the administrator, thinks of this thread. Must be a huge amount of data on his server. Hopefully it's not too much of a burden, especially since most of these pics are really just links.

Yes thank you Roger. And with most of the pictures in this thread just links to somewhere else, he probably doesn't have anymore of a load than the rest of the forum gives him. Those pictures are actually housed on other servers with just a pointer to them. The biggest issue Frank will have is the response and load times for the pages since it was to reach out to them to download the picture every time someone clicks on the thread.

[dorkburger]

Cannon at Sandy Hook / Fort Hancock. There were a series of these around the NY Harbor to defend the city. I recall chatting with someone here about them. There are also remnants a Nike missle base here as well, some restored for display, some in ruins and fenced off.
http://<a href="https://flic.kr/p/2i.../a>, on Flickr