It's not an imaginative title but it was all I could come up with, I'm a bit dense and my brain lets me down a lot. Nonetheless, it's a title and tells the truth...these are green leaves...but they come from an orange tree so, green, but orange. Makes sense right?
I took these a little while ago and decided they were shite photos ("shite photos" was my other option for a title by the way) and that I wouldn't use them.
I was clearing out folders on my computer today and ran into them and...yep, they're still shite. Having said that, I liked the contrast between the leaves and black background, the way the shadows accentuate the leaves and with the reflection from the light-ring in the water drops as well...*hmm, this is me justifying why they're not shite I guess...when in truth they are.
The net result is, they're here for you to look at and they serve as proof that I have photography fails way more, than I have successes. I'm not sure what I was going for here but if fucken shite photos were my aim I nailed it right?
As humans we are prone to failure and I'm of the belief that failure is essential to success; one affects the other and it's because my failures many of my successes have occurred. I don't mind failing...except when I feel I have failed a person whom I only ever wanted to succeed for...it happened recently, however I suppose any such person would be understanding of my failure (or maybe not)...maybe they're thoughts for another post.
What do you think about failure and how has it been pivotal or instrumental in your life? The fear of failure afflicts so many people, something they need to overcome as it changes their behaviours, but what about you? Feel free to comment, even if it's to confirm the shiteyness of my images.
Design and create your ideal life, tomorrow isn't promised - galenkp
[All original and proudly AI free]
Every image in this post is my own.
Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark III was used to capture these images.
They are very good! I like your very clear macro stuff. It shows how thoughtful and purposeful you've been with what you're trying to achieve.
I tell students failure is ESSENTIAL for success. You HAVE To make mistakes to learn. I've learnt to fail better these days, though traditionally I wasn't good with it. I'm much more likely to say 'well, I learnt some stuff' than cry now. Mistakes are just great opportunities for growth.
Thank you, at least they're in focus right? Lol.
I learnt some stuff, is one of those lines we should all be saying once the disappointment wears off and after we've evaluated and made a new plan, it sort of draws a line underneath it once and for all and allows us to move forward with the new plan. It's good you're teaching such tings to those kids, it will serve them well to remember it because in life, failure will inevitably occur.
Yeah there's a whole known pedagogy that revolves around resilience and teaching kids that EFFORT is the best way to learn. You actually don't learn as well without struggle and working through problems. So to fail is just part of learning and thus is a good thing. I always gush far more over effort than results!
Yep, I get it...I'm a reward for effort guy and don't like seeing people expect reward after not showing any. Here for instance, I'm far more likely to curate a post in which personality and effort exist than when it is not, stock images, shite text etc. I'm moving towards muting posts in my communities that include stock images. I think you'll understand to some degree...Imagine I came along and said in a post in the gardening community, I've gardening and growing plants and blah blah blah...then use images of Hyde Park. Lol. Nutbags.
Cheers to effort!
Oh no, I don't allow stock images in Hive Garden unless it's more of a philosophical post or exploring a theme that doesn't really need original images. For example, I wrote a post about platypus but I aint got no platypus images so I used them from a site, making sure I referenced them. But, yeah 'I grew tomatoes' with a stock image, and WORSE - omg - when they've got a watermark, now that's just facepalm material.
I get that, I'd allow that also, but considering my communities are about experiences it would be difficult to justify. I try to be balanced though.
Lol...watermarked images...senseless.
I often get people saying things like, but I don't have images of such and such to match the topic. OK, use somethign that doesn't match...it's not rocket science...Work it out people. I refer them to my posts and suggest that many of the images I use (all my own) don't necessarily match the topic. Oh lordy, are they writing for the New York Times or something? Jeez!
I'm moving towards own images only on the #weekend-engagement and of course, no AI bullshit. I'll mute those who don't comply I guess, after a request of an edit, or maybe without warning. We'll see.
To quote Marcus Aurelius " The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
I think failure, along with experience, is one of the best ways to learn and grow through life.
I agree with you, and Marcus Aurelius as well. Have you read his book? Meditations? If not it might be worth your time considering your comment here. There's a lot to like about it.
I've read Meditations many times (translated by Gregory Hays) It's one of my go-to books for when I need some insight. That and man's search for meaning.
Yep, I had thought you might have but felt obliged to give it a plug nonetheless.
First, I wish I could take photos as good as these. So your shite would be my goal,haha.
Now for the questions. I have had many failures in many roles of my life. All of which I must take full ownership of, even the ones when I was not in my right mind and had my mental break. After my mental break, when I lost friends and family members and almost lost my wife, I finally admitted to and sought help for my mental health challenges. The people I was mean to, disappointed, and broke hearts all are justified in their grudges against me to this day. I understand this and own it. I make no excuses. I knew I needed help long before I broke, I just refused to admit it. Everyone around me told me I shoudl get help, but I just pushed them away and refused to listen. To admit I was not mentally right to me meant I was a failure and I refused to accept that. But what I ultimately learned is that refusing to accpet it lead to real failure and a big failure at that.
Many times that impostor makes me think that I can't handle something, or that I'm not made for this, or I can't with him, it's frustrating when fear takes me over, perhaps because of the excessive need for approval, however, as much as possible I don't focus on the mistake and consider it as a learning opportunity, I identify it and continue forward, without losing hope, or becoming paralyzed.
The need for approval and, more importantly, the feeling of not being accepted or seen as valid or relevant, hold a lot of people back...Best to push forward though, life is short. I think you're on the right track. :)
Thank you very much Galen I appreciate your words, really life lessons that come and go like the waves of the sea, after surviving death from cancer, everything becomes an opportunity to advance behind my dreams, and goals, as you express it life is an instant, it is here and now while we breathe the same air, my dear friend.🙌
By the way, that little white flower is very smelly, it's a daffodil, which no matter the green or orange, is a beautiful flower.🌼
Near-death events often polarise a person, it's a shame it takes that sometimes though, people should value life well enough not to have to wait for such events but it's rarely the case.
It's true, Galen, and it shouldn't be caused by near-death events. Happiness and the joy of living is a decision and to obtain it, it is important to mark precisely the path that allows one to achieve it. Of course, always moving away from momentary pleasure... as far as possible.
I would never consider these photographs to be crap, simply because the flowers and leaves are so beautiful.
Green, but orange .... I loved it! Very nice the relationship between leaves and orange trees.
If I have to choose, I love the first photo, it's like resting, resting on the dark background.
But it's true that you learn from failures, because in reality there is no such thing as failure, only learning.
I've been afraid of failure in the past and that's why I haven't tried things I wanted to. I regretted it a lot. Today I think differently maybe because that fear I had was a failure and I learned from it.
Without those "failures" you can't move forward in life, so get rid of fear!
Thank you Galen!
Yeah, the first one is the best...but there's something about these that don't appeal to me; I'm a nutbag though, so felt inclined to show them anyway.
You and many others, but the good thing is your realised, re-evaluated and rectified the situation.
The genius is in the madness, that's all there is to it hahaha
Yes I realised and learned, that's the most important thing!
Pizza day haha
Lol...Mad genius. I'll take it...seems to fit...well the mad part does anyway.
That's what they say.... that those who are geniuses are because they are crazy too hahahahahaha
When I see citrus, immediately the world seems to me a beautiful place where failure and sadness are impossible. I grew up surrounded by fields of oranges, and although I would have liked more your photos in the natural scene, they serve to take me to that place of happiness.
However, those citrus fields have disappeared and our failures do not end with them. I ask myself all the time what we must learn as a collective (Cuban people) and individually. Your reflections have brought me to this question.
Thank you for putting orange blossoms in my morning 🙏
Citrus trees are quite lovely when their leaves are out, and their blossoms too.
I understand, I'm not inclined to photograph my yard/house areas for the internet though, and besides, the wind isn't good for macro photos, any wind.
I'm glad you liked my images, thank you, and I hope you have a nice day going forward.
I caught what you were putting down with the green but orange. I immediately looked at the leaf, knew you lived where it was hot as balls and figured those were orange leaves. Cool stuff as I’ve not seen orange leaves I don’t think. I don’t mind the pictures, they aren’t blurry so you’re good there. Contrast is nice, black and green. Decent shots dude! Is that with a phone or DSLR camera?
Edit - I see in the bottom, it sounds like a DSLR. Cool shit!
Hot balls, rarely good. Lol.
Thanks mate, yeah the mirrorless Olympus thing...It works well although I know many people don't prefer mirrorless for some reason I don't actually know.
Yeah I’m not fancy enough to give a shit lol. I point, it takes a picture and I look. Simple caveman.
This world is built on the backs of cavemen, so I'm happy to be one too.
I agree, the green against the black really pops. As I said before, either in your post or your brothers, I have a pretty short memory, so while I revisit things more than I should, I don't let them impact me emotionally that often. Therefore, failure is something I tend to move past pretty quickly.
Thanks man, I was going to delete these altogether as pretty uninspiring as far as photos go, but I figured it'd be a good chance to talk about failure and success, something I feel is an important discussion to have with oneself.
I'm a little like you in that I don't tend to dwell on the failure. I certainly think about it, analyse the situation and work out how to change it for the better, but I don't generally, mope around dwelling on the failure itself. We are human. We fail. That's the long and short of it.
Yeah, for sure. You can't go back and change it, so as long as you learn from it....
Of course, it makes sense, and a lot of inventiveness,
honestly, I laughed when I read the title, when I saw the photos I didn't think of the orange, I imagined a lemon plant, in fact the flowers are very similar, and the leaves are also similar, the difference is the fruit.
I see that these flowers are in the process of pollination so that the plant can bear fruit.
Here we have a phrase that goes like this:
Green, I love you green.
I am not afraid of failure, of course it is not in my plans to fail and when failure has happened, I realized that it was not because of me, it was because of factors external to me. Against those factors, I just changed my plans.
I have failed and failed again, but that does not make me less, it makes me more and better, for me and for my opportunities.
They're similar indeed...Maybe a better title might have been orange or lemon, who knows what?
I like what you say about failure and how it has positively impacted you and caused you to push forward. We learn from it yes, however it's also important to apply those lessons as failing to do that will not change what happened last time.
No, the title is great.
Green orange,
Because, green lemon was very obvious.
Precisely that, applying the lesson, is the best way to change failure.
Don't you think that sometimes failure can be the worst thing. Like you prepare very well for something but still end up failing, still this type of failure is essential for success?
I don't like failure at big levels as they can hit you very badly.
Failure can be catastrophic, life changing/life ending, so yes it can be the worst thing sometimes, but it can also be the best thing. Say a project you're working on at work fails...Ok, now you know one more way not to do it. Evaluate, plan, strategize and move forward to the next try. We don't learn much from success.
See above. Failure is the reason we have so many of the useful things in life right now. Accidents and failures. The people just learned from them and did things differently.
Want to succeed more? Fail more! (It means, learn, plan again, and retry.)
Yep, and then you should be taking some massive fucken action to make sure you make the changes required to succeed at that thing. Massive action man, massive. Fucking around with activities in which there's little effort will bring little results, if any at all.
Yup, because this is the only solution we are left with to achieve our desired goal or mission.
Man you always got me, I always end up agreeing with you. Yup I am convinced.
Yeah this is the thing I think I have missed, if we are going for something big, the action should also be Massive.
Anything worth doing is worth massive action. Relationships, work, relaxation, self-improvement, Hive. Bringing other than one's best to life is wasteful.
Noted ✅️
Best wishes ✨️
Failure is what we need to learn, grow and become more savvy. The better we manage failure, the better we grow.
Oh yeah man, I agree...and the more of it we do, the more success we will find.
I think the first one is ok. The second one had a lot of things going on, and aren't arranged in any specific way. Going for symmetry or some sort of form would make it better. The third one could have been better with more arrangement, but it's not bad.
As for failure, I really hate it. I'm already hard on myself most of the time, but failing in some things makes it worse. There are a lot of things that I prevent myself from doing because of my fear of failure. I know that it's not healthy, and I should change that, but it is so difficult.
Yes, I did that on purpose to reflect a more abstract appearance to reflect what was happening in my life at the time, things I'll not say here. Sometimes life is messy and unstructured, and sometimes it's ordered and uniform...I'm not the sort of man to deny one over the other, and so my photography will sometimes reflect that. Of course, you are able to offer your opinion.
See above...
You sound somewhat disappointed overall. It's ok, brighten up, these are my images and not yours, so they don't reflect on you at all.
You should learn to love it. When I'm asked what element people can bring to their lives to carry them forward to greater success I say, fail more.
Self-limiting and not productive at all. You're going to die one day and nothing you did in life will matter anymore...but you're not dead yet which means you can make things matter enough to go and do them. (Thoughts, attitudes and actions.)
I'm not disappointed at all, are you projecting to me haha? I'm just reacting to your pics and how you described them as shite. The first one being ok is actually a compliment, and I didn't consider it as shite. I used 'ok' instead of wonderful or majestic or other bigger words because I've seen your other pictures and those were definitely better than this one.
My other comments were supposed to be constructive criticism and was my way of thinking how the pictures could not be shite. You now say you did it that way on purpose, and now I don't know why you consider them as shite.
These are some of the worst photos I've taken in a long time, I hate them, but they demonstrate perfectly that I don't have a fear of failure. I have, since, taken some great photos thanks to that fact, and yet know I will take more shit photos, I'm not a photographer after all, just a nutbag with a camera.
Your shooting skills are so clean and classy! No doubt it takes lots of efforts and time spent learning how to become better but I love your results!
Thank you, I appreciate that. These images are far from favourites, I've taken better, but the subject matter didn't help, a few leaves with buds forming. Even though I don't like them though, I still enjoyed the process. I have some more for the weekend, a much better subject and photos I'm far more happy with. :)
Thanks for dropping by.
Now you made me curious with the upcoming ones since I consider these pretty amazing :D
You'll see if you look at my post on Saturday. :)
Very beautiful picture display. Leaves like these that have drips of water on them look really nice to look at.
Thank you, I appreciate your comment and taking the time to view my post.
I really like to see Photography with leaves as the model, if flowers are very common. but leaves need other things to look at to make it look better, I like seeing this photography
Thank you, I'm glad you liked these. I guess I'm pretty critical of them myself, they don't do much for me, but it seemed a shame to waste them so here they are.
Living by these quotes from the legend himself ✌️
He was a smart thinker for sure, Michael Jordan; most successful people are.
A pity that I didn't get to watch him play live in action.
But definitely a big influence and role model for most kids playing the game!
I never saw him do anything, I mean literally, on TV or otherwise, but that doesn't mean I can't learn from his words right? He seemed to be a good role models in a world where there's many bad ones.
Well he does have the "bad" side, afterall we are just humans.
Just have to embrace whatever is being offered, take the good and leave out the bad.
Be discerning and like always do your own due diligence 😁
failure is essential to success. that's the keyword and I like your photos @galenkp
I agree about what you say in respect of failure, clearly, as I say so in this post. I'm glad you added your input though. Much appreciated.
You have a great ability to make headlines. It pays, you know? The big newspapers have teams for that.
Oh yeah, the headline and main image is important indeed.
You know, if I see a post I may be interested in, but it has a stock image as the main image, I don't look at it. I prefer own images as it shows more personality. But yes, the headline is important. I don't really like seeing the ENG/ESP thing in headlines, or really long headlines...again unimaginative. Short and punchy/catchy is the way to go.
That's right.
And to put in people's minds that the photos are shit when they're not. They've served to graph a concept, man, and besides, they're not thirsty. 😂 The droplets are cool.
There's a lot to enjoy about writing. The game, above all
I like a little misdirection in my writing, saying things with dual meanings, hiding truth and my true self in fiction, between the lines in other writing. I love writing, and am working on another book, slowly and little by little.
One book? Do you already have others published? Tell me about it.
Lol, nah it just written and not published. I wrote it for fun. Only three people have ever read it to be honest.
It's over 440,000 words, an adventure story (fantasy/fiction) set in a fictional world based around the era of about the 1600's. It took me a year, back in 2000-2001 and I used it to straighten out a lot of thoughts at the time, there's a lot of me in it, mostly why I don't let people read it.
What I'm working on is different, and no one will see it either I guess.
😁 Well, I don't know a writer who doesn't put his life in his books, or snippets of it.
Super
Indeed.
Failure oftentimes brings out the best in us, it makes us see life in quite different perspectives than we would ordinarily see it.