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Portraits without Faces

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Tommy and Mario

500px is running a quest this month with the theme of “Portraits without Faces”. This is an interesting quest, and I just happened to have this picture available from a recent photo shoot we did in Denver. The quest brief is described as, “Not all portraits need faces! Not focusing on the face can open up a new dimension of interpretation while still allowing the view to capture the personality or mood of the subject.” The quest goes until January 8, 2021. One winner will receive a prize of $200.

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Copying files in subdirectories to a single directory

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In order to copy my files, easily to Google Photos, they must be in a flat directory structure.  Doing this on my machine is a bit of a challenge, since I’m running Mac OS and trying to easily copy files on a read only external NTFS drive.  The built in find functionality of the Finder window doesn’t really fit my needs.  This approach will work on most unix systems.

Make a temporary directory, if you don’t already have one.  For this scenario, I made a tmp directory in my home area.  I have gotten myself into trouble often enough, that I will never use the system level /tmp directory ever again.  From the Terminal in the top level directory where your images are, execute the following command(s):


mkdir ~/tmp

find . -name '*.*' -exec cp {} ~/tmp \

This will copy all files from your target location to a temporary directory in your home/user area.  Since a lot of my photos have different extensions, it is easiest to copy everything.  The post on uploading to Google Photos will come later.