Photo of the Day - Feb 12, 2024

Tree at Greenwood Cemetery

 

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Lunar New Year Year of the Dragon

 

To all my Asian Readers and followers: Have a great celebration.

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Image is available on many items at my Merchr store...

Lens4anEye Shop 

 

My MERCHR shop of ClickaSnap Images

Visit my MERCHR shop of ClickaSnap images and products. Here is the link https://lens-for-an-eye.clickasnap.shop/

Here is what it looks like.

There are loads of great gift ideas there at reasonable prices. Help spread the word.

My email is Lens4anEye@Modalchoice.com 

My ClickaSnap profile is Lens4anEye and can be seen at ClickASnap.com/Lens4anEye

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ClickASnap has partnered with Merchr Hub for Print on Demand

ClickASnap has partnered with Merchr Hub for Print on Demand services. I added several dozen products with my photography imprinted. Please visit my site and consider a purchase during this holiday season. The link to the site is at bit.ly/Lens4anEyeShop

 My ClickASnap profile of images is at Lens4anEye and contains hundreds more images which I have not yet added to the Merchr Shop site. If you email me which image you would like to see printed on one of the Merchr products or as wall art. I will put a specific effort on it for you. Lens4anEye@modalchoice.com

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The PIC in Everyday Situations

The PIC in Everyday Situations

 

Principle of Imminent Collapse suggests that everything in our experience is on the edge of failure and all it takes is The Nudge to precipitate the cascading failure.

 

I first posed the Principle of Imminent Collapse in 2005 and it has manifest thousands of times worldwide ever since. It has been a specific to me several times but mostly I have avoided dire consequences by understanding it. 

 

Once on a long business trip I had driven about 600 miles to South Carolina. I was there for two days driving and parking in numerous spots without incident. On the last day when getting ready to drive home. My brake pedal went straight to the floor. Fortunately I was only moving at about 2 mph.  Only minutes before that total hydraulic failure I had had my vehicle moved to where I would load my equipment. The man who drove it had experienced not problems. 

 

A master cylinder brake line had been corroding at a fitting unobserved for quite some time. It was at that moment the metal burst leaving me without any brakes. 

 

This all transpired in a parking lot of a transit agency with no other vehicles immediately nearby. A few minutes later I would have been on the highway cruising on home. This catastrophic failure could have been deadly. 

 

The repairs had to wait until the next day after having the vehicle towed to a repair shop. It took all day to get done from having to locate parts and fabricate the shape of the pipe. It turned out the shop replaced the failed section of pipe and all the others which were equally old. 

 

When I got home I had my usual mechanic inspect every hydraulic line, the calipers, master cylinder and the ABS block. I was not going to have a repeat occurrence of an identifiable weakness. 

 

In advance of some upcoming interstate road trips I decided my existing four tires would be replaced before I headed out. They all had good tread depth but might harbor hidden flaws which could manifest the Principle of Imminent Collapse.

 

The 4-digit number imprinted on the sidewall on the tire, 4114, means the tire was manufactured in the 41st week of 2014. Specifically, my tires were nine years old. I had been pushing the envelope for a while. Every mile brought them closer to one of the four experiencing tread separation or a blowout due to failure of the steel belts. 

 

Being I am the originator of the statement of the Principle of Imminent Collapse itself and am fully aware of the perils of ignoring it, I spent the morning waiting in the installation of four new tires. 

 

I had to fight the reluctance of replacing four good looking tires. I had to resist the temptation of procrastination. I had to rationalize the fact that 95% of tire failures occur in the last 10% of its service life. 

 

Yes, a nail or shard of glass can fail a new tire. A pothole can crack the seal at the bead. A manufacturing defect may be present. However, all of those events are beyond the control of good management of the Principle of Imminent Collapse and the Nudges which brings on the failure. 

 

If one watches for the imminent failures they can be averted. The failure might not be stopped but horrendous outcomes can. 

 

Similarly, the phrase “a stitch in time, saves nine” is an early wisdom and admonition to heed the PIC and its consequences. 

Dear Readers of the PIC

 

Dear readers of the PIC:

I post my photography to both OpenSea.io/ and to ClickaSnap.com 

Both platforms provide exposure for my work. If you are interested in NFTs then OpenSea.io/itsalltuna is the place to go. 

The above picture is from my collection
of Front Porches. Click here for the Album.

ClickaSnap provides a view payment if you look at individual photos for at least 5 seconds.

Going to my albums and looking is like an Upvote for the image. Dwelling 5 second is a super upvote on each photo for my photography. 

I seek to gain a regular following and appreciate each and every view.  Tell people you know about my pictures.

The link is ClickaSnap.com/Lens4anEye. Thank you for your support. 

Introducing: Lens4AnEye blog

I decided to spin off my photography articles to a dedicated photography blog,

Lens4anEye is at https://lens4aneye.blogspot.com/ 

The photos are hosted on ClickaSnap.com and can be visited by everyone.

Look for my narratives which accompany the photos on the blogspot blog.

Photos by Robert Carlson

The Circular Church in Charleston

By Robert Carlson   [Lens4anEye]

I was in Charleston to get photographs of the city and its culture. I had driven there and had Savannah, GA as my next way-point on a circuit. I checked into a motel and went out to peruse the area and decide what my subject for the next day would be.

The sign said "Circular Church" so I stopped and looked around. The establishment was quite old and included a cemetery with equally old grave markers. They were tall and thin mostly gray stone tablets with archaic spelling and skeleton figures. View the entire Album at this link.

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The church yard was full of similar markers and the location quite placid. It was the architecture of the church itself which caught my eye. The round sections all clustered into one larger composition made for a unique (to my eye) view. 

The Circular Church in Charleston

I spent the afternoon of the first day there and returned the morning of the next to get a variety of exposures. Then I moved on to explore more of the famous city with the Battery and parks.

Images by Robert Carlson -- Copyright 2008-2023 -- Pictures hosted at ClickaSnap.com

Profile name: Len4anEye

Marketing Photographs is Not for the Timid

House in New Mexico

Marketing Photographs

Marketing Photographs Not for the Timid

Is it Quantity or Quality which should prevail? One one hand the quality is essential, but one must have a sufficient quantity in order to engage the largest audience. Quantity doesn’t mean you as the photographer don’t need to maintain your level of quality. You can have both. The trouble is when you have a high number of images in your online collection the audience must scroll through many pages of pictures and the ones “below the fold” may never be seen.

Putting the images in some topically random order assures the audience doesn’t come to think the you only do photographs of one thing. Too many pictures of your cat or dog, or lots of pictures of different cats and dogs may interest the pet lovers, but it will turn off the landscape and architecture audience.

Recently I subscribed to the ClickASnap.com platform to facilitate my collections. They provide a token View Fee for when someone clicks on and views an image for 5 seconds or longer. This fee is derived from their paid subscriptions not from the person viewing the images. The second value they provide is printing and shipping of products which include the images their subscribers post.

It is the responsibility of the photographer to develop the customer=base for the products. This is why I have written this Medium article and you are reading it. I want you to see my photography and possibly buy a print of one type or another.

The Front Porch Collection is an ongoing project where I attempt to present a wide variety of examples from mere stoops to wraparound verandas. Some houses are abandoned and dilapidated while others remain occupied (even if dilapidated). Still others are well maintained and grand.

The Black and White Collection is another niche album for the aficionados of the monochrome presentation style. B&W is not favored by everyone so if B&W is what one wants to see, clicking on the specific link saves a lot of time. As the photographer I would rather the audience look at everything, but that is not realistic in this fast paced world.

With 14 topical album from which to choose one needs a shortcut to get to the list of albums. Viola! Click Here to see the album list.

Trying to get attention in the world of millions of photographers and billions of images is not for the faint of heart. All one can do is keep the effort going.

 

ClickASnap Gallery of "Lens4anEye"

ClickASnap Photo Sharing

In January of 2023 I learned of the existence of the photo sharing platform "ClickASnap.com". It promised to generate revenues from user views of my photos. While it does what it claims to do, the ROI for the effort incurred is very low. At 7/10ths of a cent per "Authentic View" one needs needs 14,285 of them to earn $100. An Authentic View is one where the user views the photo for at least 5 seconds.

With the Free account, the $100 needs 100,000 authentic Views. even at the Pro level the $100 needs 11,111 Authentic views. Obviously, the more photos uploaded the more opportunities there are to garner the requisite number of views. The ratio of ordinary views to Authentic Views in my experience is about 25%. That is a lot of work for the revenues.

Maybe as time moves on, the number of Authentic Views might approach 14k per month, i.e. $100, when more users discover my account. Meanwhile, the jury is still out on whether this platform and its revenue policy is worthwhile. 

Please visit my ClickASnap.com gallery at Clickasnap.com/Lens4anEye