Sometimes they help us discover something new, sometimes they are curiosities to us, or something to laugh at, occasionally they might even be serendipitous.
Graphic credit: H. Mcl.
Still other times, mistakes might be a real pain.
But with every mistake, we undoubtedly learn something previously unknown.
This week on Friendly Friday Photography Challenge, I am asking you to create a post on the theme of:
“Mistakes”
Write as much or as little as you like to accompany the photo/s you choose to post.
New Zealand – an unexplained photo mistake??
The Friendly Friday prompt, this week, is “Mistakes.”
There are two mistakes in the above photo.
Mistake #1 – shows a quirk of mobile photography – I am unsure how I managed this photo, given it was taken with my smartphone, but I think it looks kinda cool. It reminds me of The Day of the Triffids, War of the Worlds, or a sci-fi novel.
Can you guess what the mistake actually is?
Mistake #2: Can you see another mistake?
I feel sure this mistake would not amuse local police.
Here is another kind of mistake:
Did he/she make a mistake?
Create a post sharing your interpretation of the weekly prompt – Mistakes.
Instructions:
Write and publish a post, tagging the postFriendly Friday, and adding a url link back to thisFriendly Friday post.
Include the Friendly Friday logo if you wish
Post a link to your Mistake post, in the comments here, so we can easily find you.
Please note there are no deadlines for participating
Browse the other participants’ posts using the links in the comments section, to see how they’ve interpreted the weekly prompt. It can be quite interesting.
A skinny slip of a girl was studying the Environment at University. She learnt about planet earth and how fragile it was; how global temperature might rise at least 2- 3 degrees, and how this warming might lead to cataclysmic and irreversible ramifications for life, on earth.
Rainbows could be a thing of the past in some parts of Australia
That student also learnt how inland river systems were polluted by effluent from cities and how excessive irrigation for agricultural crops led to saline soils and dying river systems, in this the driest continent, on earth. She learnt how her country would begin to experience more drought, wild weather events, fire and more hardship on the land in coming decades.
Rivers break their banks in extreme weather events
Furthermore, she read how scientists detected die-back and bleaching of coral in the Great Barrier Reef due to run-off of fertilizers draining down from agricultural land into the sea, during rains.
She learnt how everything in the natural world is interconnected.
If one part of the ecosystem breaks down, or disappears, it has a deleterious domino effect on other parts, with potential species extinction and irreversible damage to nature.
She learnt along with rising sea levels, that there is not a single species in the ocean without plastic materials in its gut; that fisheries are disappearing and that the only marine species flourishing in the alkaline marine environment is Jellyfish.
In University classes, she discussed how we as humans, along with other predatory species will feel the concentrated effects of endocrine disrupting petrochemicals and accumulated pesticides. And that we might see evidence of this first in plants, second in animals that feed on those plants, and lastly in us, the carnivores that eat the animals, because we are at the top of the food chain.
Everything is connected.
Plastic washed up on beaches
She learnt that frogs are a good indicator of the health of the environment and that frogs and bee numbers are dwindling.
The student then learnt about the hole in the ozone layer and how the polar ice sheets could melt resulting in a rise in sea levels; meaning some low lying countries will become uninhabitable.
Rising sea levels could threaten low lying coastal communities
For this student, who had grown up in the shadow of potential nuclear extermination in the Cold War era, soon realized an even bigger threat to the planet was, in fact, man himself.
Checkpoint Charlie – a hot spot in the Cold War
What kind of world would her potential future children be gifted with?
She left her work in the environment field as she could not bear to hear it any more.
Looking outwards, not inwards
Now no longer a student, but a Mother, that women began to facilitate and promote environmentally friendly practices in her own circle. She spoke about her concerns with friends, family and her wider community, and slowly changed attitudes of those around her, and increased awareness, in her own microcosm.
That former student learnt that education and knowledge can be a powerful vanguard for change in community thinking and ultimately, in the halls of government. The student, who had read so much gloom and doom in her University years, also learnt that there is HOPE.
Slowly, as temperatures began to rise, folks began to know the world was indeed a finite place and could no longer absorb man’s destructive ways.
Sustainable practices, solar and wind power and recycling became mainstream. Single use plastic bags were banned or minimized. Threatened forests and animals were protected and land clearing practices examined in terms of their biodiversity loss or environmental value. Salinity in rivers and streams began to be addressed and is now understood as both a threat and a challenge.
And the public started to realize that Climate Change is real.
Friendly Friday Photo Challenge will have a new weekly prompt next week here on Something to Ponder About. Thanks ever so much to my co-host TheSnowMeltsSomewhere for her Friendly Friday Climate Change prompt.
Please check the comment section on her post for other entries to this challenge.
This topic is especially dear to my heart and in highlighting this issue through photography, we can also increase awareness. I will pop down from my soap box now.
Have you ever experienced a ‘Sliding Door’ moment? Those moments when you made a choice in life, that led to significant changes for you?
They are those moments in life, when you realize it was a Turning Point, which meant that your journey would have looked quite different if you had chosen something else?
Contemplating the Choices
We make decisions; we take a variety of paths, at times choosing to be adventurous, spontaneous or at other times, quite conservative.
Later, we reflect on those decisions.
Some of us discover the path we’ve chosen to be too arduous, the scenery too different, that we decided to turn back or even turn away.
Crossroads
On other occasions, taking that wrong ‘turn’ might have led us to incredible discoveries and serendipitous good fortune. Life is often surprising.
To go or to stay?
The prompt for this week’s Friendly Friday Photography Challenge is:
“Turning Point.”
Create a post sharing your interpretation of the weekly prompt.
It might be a photo of a sign, a threshold, a place to contemplate, or a crossroad; something that represents a Turning Point for you.
Write as much or as little as you like to accompany the photo/s.
Instructions:
Leave your response in the comments section, with a link to your Turning Point post, so we can find you.
Add a tag, or link back to the Friendly Friday prompt
Include the Friendly Friday logo if you wish
Please note there are no deadlines for participating
Do browse the other participants’ posts to see how they’ve interpreted the weekly prompt. It can be quite interesting.
Earlier this week, I wrote about the Contrasts that I found on a recent trip to Japan. This week on Friendly Friday Photography Challenge, I am asking you to create a post on “contrasts.”
A Contrast of colour
Contrasts might not simply be a contrasting subject as in the photo of Nidaros Cathedral above. You could choose to edit and post the same photo, with the second being an edited version with more or less contrast? I added more contrast to the photo on the right below, and I think it creates a slightly different feel. Moodier, darker I think.
Contrasts of Size or Attribute
You might also consider contrast of size or some other characteristic. It would be hard to find a larger contrast in terms of size differential, than the small Trolls, of Trollstigen, (rock piles), against the backdrop of the larger (mountain), trolls, and the Green Valley, far below.
The bare rocks against the valley below; the small Trolls against the large cairns.
Sometimes it is old versus new that provides the strongest contrasting photos.
Melbourne city Skyline
Whatever the contrast, it is really up to you.
Join in and share your photos here on Friendly Friday. Instructions below.
Instructions on Joining Friendly Friday Photography Challenge
Just like the former WordPress Photo Challenge, we’ll post a prompt each Friday and invite you to create a ‘Friendly Friday,‘ post using one or more photos that relate to the weekly prompt. Everyone is welcome to participate. Beginning or Advanced.
Write as little, or as much, as you like to accompany the photo/s. That part is up to you!
Add a ‘Friendly Friday‘ tag and create a link (or ping) back, so that others can visit you.
Once you hit publish, come back to this post again and leave a comment making sure you include a link to your Friendly Friday post. Find further instructions here.
Here’s how to create a pingback if you are not sure of how to do it.
There will be another Friendly Friday topic posted over at TheSnowMeltsSomewhere, next Friday. I will be hosting again, in 2 weeks time, here at Something to Ponder About.
Our lives become so busy, it is only in reflection that we can truly appreciate some of the places we have visited in our lives. Through our photography, memories come alive.
Tokyo skyline from Tokyo Tower – nearly 15 years ago
Sometimes things change immensely, whilst others stay very much the same.
This week on Friendly Friday, I am asking you to Re-visit your memories, places and experiences.
Asakusa Temple Now
Asakusa Then – July 2004
The prompt ‘Re-visiting’ might mean something entirely different. It might simply mean a return to a place, but in another time. A ‘before’ and ‘after’ photo, of a project, from start to finish, or a time warp showing changes from one decade to another. Such as revisiting the changes from baby to child or child to adult. It might even be a place you wish to re-visit one day.
Such as a little village in Denmark.
A perfect summer in Denmark
You are limited only by what revisiting means to your imagination.
Like the former WordPress Photo Challenge, we’ll post a prompt each Friday and invite you to create a ‘Friendly Friday‘ post using one or more photos of your choice, relating to the weekly prompt.
Write as little, or as much, as you like in the post. That part is really up to you!
Once you hit publish, come back here and leave your comment and link for your Friendly Friday post, in our comments section. Find further instructions here.
The New Friendly Friday Logo
Snow and I have created individual logos, for Friendly Friday, that you may like to add to your Friendly Fridaypost, but this is entirely optional. This week, my daughter created a new, unique logo using her quirky art. You are free to use this logo, or the former one, in your post if you wish.
And don’t forget to add a tag, and pingback to Friendly Friday.
This will make it easier for us all to find you and your post.
