Post a picture of yourself

jeffashman · Nov 13, 2021

idle said:
does it have to be recent? all my best selfies were in the past.
Here are some I've liked (pardon the number, please scroll past if you wish):

DIC after a hard night out.
The Morning After the Night Before by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

With my home made 16x20" camera (I used it to shoot Cibachromes)
Me and my home made camera by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

World Superbike Championships, Manfield 1992. BEARs race (I won)
Mike Breen on Pizza To You Ducati F1 at Manfield 1992 by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

In Namibia 2001. We lived there for an IBM contract
Playing with lions! by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

Cycling across the Tibetan Plateau in 1999
Well Met: Linxia by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

A work photo: I made B&W enlargements for some of the shops around Christchurch.
My little darkroom by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

2nd Tibetan Trek 2000
'Selphie' Cycling the Tibetan Plateau; 1998 by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

Travels in China: ZhuZaiGuo
The Blonde Yak! by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

Relaxing in Langmusi, China (I lived there and studied Mandarin)
Mike in Langmusi by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

Langmusi, China. I've always got on well with kids all over the world
Langmusi with the kids by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

A bit more recent with my grandson
No Poppa! Slow Down! by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

Cycling in Singapore (lived there in 1987). Carrying my Mamiya 645 1000s
Streets of Singapore by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

Another more recent shot (speaks for itself)
FREE BEER! (tomorrow) by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

In my Lyttelton studio and darkroom with my first 35mm camera (inherited from my Dad)
Me, Myself and I / Ko au, Ko au ano me au by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

I'm shy......honest!
Mike by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

On a bike ride this year
Selfie in Artwork by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

Finally, with my Mom when we lived in Malaya
My mother and I by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

I hope you laughed!

That's a wonderful set of selfies. You certainly have had an interesting life.

jesssica_ · Nov 16, 2021

Some pictures my dad took with my camera at my brothers wedding on Saturday

ntz · Nov 23, 2021

K9Kirk said:
I see, kind of like how I do. I have a 2 TB h.d. and I only keep the raw and the processed copy of each pic I decide to keep. If I run out of h.d. (and it will take a long time before I do) I just buy another. I could pay for the use of "Cloud" but I would rather put my money into something that I control. So, is that picture lost forever or can you repost it somehow?

Servus Kirk,

let me throw my 2 cents in ... I am IT guy (profession) and I've spent quite some time with developing how should I store my data ... Let's make a long story short - I use multi-tier principle of my storage (3 tiers - 3rd == the highest value, 1st tier == lowest value / working data) ..

tier 3 - I use a blue-ray disc (labeled by months of the year) for regular backup of my raw files, that's my tier 3 storage, BD disc are supposed to just survive for ages - basically I have all RAWs that I don't delete on BD disc (based on the date - so I have a for example disc 2021/2 which contains all RAWs from all my cameras taken in Feb 2021, etc) ++ I create sometimes (quarterly) a special BD where I put my postprocessing projects (files from photoshop, gimp, pp3 profiles and so exported JPGs)

tier 2 - are multiple offline harddrives and sd cards and usb sticks .. tier is #2 transition between online data (t#1) and tier #3 .. I don't create t#3 backups every month, rather quarterly or less often .. in tier #2 is basically backup of my all current and recent work on one pile .. it's often unsorted and there's mess in it

tier 1 - live data that are "online" .. data on my hardrives in computer and also my external harddisks that I carry outside or use daily

summary - I have biggest trust into the offline optical Blue-Ray drives for long term storage and I have almost no trust into anything online no matter where it is and what is the raid level of it .. I don't have a trust in long term perspective to anything, that's mechanical and needs electricity to operate (my tier #2)

setup like that forces you to sort your photos (and other files - I am using this principle for many years) .. when I am making my BD backups I usually have to sort my photos because the capacity of one blue ray disc is 25/50GB big == 750/1500 RAW files (my 24MP raw files from nikon are 25-30MB each) which not bad for a month but also not awesome sometimes and I usually want to have only one BD drive per month (with shots from 3 cameras) .. yearly backup is usually box with 1-? BD drives .. for example from 2020 I have 11x BD ~ monthly drives ++ one cumulative backup on just 2 BD / 50GB drives which contains the data from all 11 drives (there's usually a lot of free space on each month-basis drive) == 11 + 2 drives for 1 year on two boxes on two geolocations

(two houses)

cheers, ~dan

WalterRowe · Nov 23, 2021

I used Capture One Pro tethering to take this self portrait.

Camera: Nikon Z 7 + Nikkor Z 24-70/4S
Lighting: Two FlashPoint AD400 Pros - from above and below
Backdrop: Studio Dynamics - Wellington
Software: Capture One Pro 21