Think I’m overselling it?
It’s still winter anyway, and I’m not going to be out shooting anything unless we get some snow. I’ve been spending the time tweaking the computer and cleaning up some odds and ends, and among those was correcting some typos in the blog tags. Mind you, I correct typos in the posts themselves too (when I’m aware that they’re there – more on that in a second,) but the tags field does not allow spellcheck to function within it, don’t ask me why, so I get no little squiggly-red-underline reminders. I do get them when I dump the tags into a database (or at least when LibreOffice is working correctly,) but it also flags every last species name used, and there are a shitload of them – a couple of them probably are misspelled but I’m not going through and checking those. But for giggles, I’m going to list several of the legit typos here – don’t waste your time looking for them because they’re already corrected. Mostly.
afghanistan – Some of my tags are purposefully not capitalized, like “pope” and “islam,” but this was not one of them.
all the commments keep me confident
Blue Ridge Moutains
Dayight Saving Time – I knew to keep “Saving” singular at least…
Denelsbeckisms – I don’t know why this was flagged, because it’s absolutely correct, so probably an outdated dictionary
except in years evenly divisibly by 49 – I’m notoriously bad about typing “actually” when I only want “actual,” and I have no idea that I’m doing it, nor does spellcheck care about that. But it seems it’s not the only word that I do that with.
healh – Right alongside “healthfood nuts” in the same post, too.
Jum Jeffries – That’s supposed to be “Jim.” Yes, his name is Jum Jim…
Love Is a Battlefied
mallar – That’s a castrated mallard…
measureable benefit – I’m a fairly decent speller, but this is an honest mistake of mine – I’m never quite sure when the silent “E”s carry over.
misleading langauge – But that’s just from typing too fast.
molluscs – While “mollusks” is probably what the internal dictionary wanted, this is actually a legit spelling as well, and makes more sense.
not exactly photojurnalism
now with vitamn Meh! – It’s fine with “meh,” believe it or not…
one goddman thing after another – I actually kinda like this one and am letting it remain.
pattern recogniton – I had to load a new plugin that allowed for tags to be merged, because I knew this was already used properly in two other posts. However, I screwed up and ended up wiping out both the misspelled one and the correct one, and I’m not sure what posts featured it, so we’re just saying goodbye to that tag here.
resiving images
sounds pretty believeable – Again.
stablity – This is a real word, meaning “like a stable…”
But while we’re here for no good reason, we’ll have the image counts for the past year too, because I finished sorting (and the multiple backups that go alongside.) So the counts in my various categories are:
Aquatic – 41
Arthropods – 491
Beach – 95
Birds – 2,915!
Invertebrates – 33
Lakes/Streams/Waterfalls – 206
Leaves/Plants/Trees – 587
Mammals – 304 (with 205 of those being horses shot on a single day…)
Reptiles/Amphibians – 899
Scenic/Abstract – 370
Science/Miscellaneous – 398
Space – 513
Sunrise/Sunset – 196
That makes 7,098, only not really because some of those are duplicated across categories. That’s out of not quite 18,000 images actually taken during the year, making it roughly a 40% keeper rate. This may sound bad, but it’s within the average for working professionals, and when you’re pursuing subjects like diving osprey and lightning and meteor showers, a good number of those are gonna get tossed, and rightfully so. Chasing numbers in this manner may encourage a photographer to keep more than they really should, which is only going to reduce the overall value and impressions of their photos. And you can just keep your comments about that to yourselves…
[I have to note here that not counted among them are not just the various personal and project photos that don’t count as stock, but a whopping 35 photos of Mr Bugg chimping, because I know he’s anxious to compare counts and I challenge him to produce any photos of your truly in return ;-) ]
But that’s enough for now. We’ll close with one of the first images from last year, the first in the Space category at least, moonrise out on Jordan Lake as countless seagulls (I think) cruised past on their way to their nighttime roosts. Taken just over a year ago, meaning I’m already behind. Sheesh.
