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\nOut of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of two icebergs passing by outside the window of our ship. I seized my camera and ran to the back of the ship. The pair glistened and glinted in a glowing haze of diffuse fog. I check the first few frames. Perfect exposures. And I continued shooting until they disappeared.
\nThrilled, I returned to my cabin to download these beautiful new images. I opened the camera and found there was no card in it. To fix a recently developed quirk, I had reset all the settings on my camera to their defaults, which was to fire without a card, a behavior I disliked before and loathed now.
\nYet again, I was forced to learn from my mistakes. The pain and frustration of what was lost drove this lesson home deeply. I redoubled my efforts to keep my systems streamlined and my habits well maintained \u2013 plus periodically check them.
\nIt\u2019s only a small comfort that Thomas Edison, one of the most innovative men in history, set a monthly quota for making mistakes; he felt that if he wasn\u2019t making a certain number of mistakes, he wasn\u2019t pushing the envelope enough. Easier said than done, the trick is not to make the same mistake twice. I had made this mistake before. It was already on my checklist – Mistakes I\u2019ve Made<\/i>.
\nA black cat mysteriously failed to appear in exposures I made as a small child with my mother. No one had a camera the day we released a magnificent rehabilitated golden eagle. On close inspection, exposures from the Scottish highlands were found to be out of focus. A dozen sheets of film used inside Chartes Cathedral were re-exposed to light before being processed. A roll of film shot in Death Valley\u2019s Golden Canyon was improperly processed. A camera shutter failed to open despite making its customary noise at Point Lobos, California. Files made in Chile\u2019s altiplano were deleted from a hard drive. A camera fell to the bottom of the ocean in a Maine harbor. The list goes on. I keep looking for the book people refer to when they use the phrase \u201cevery mistake in the book\u201d \u2013 but until I find it, I\u2019ll continue writing my own.
\nTo this day, I can see these images in my mind as clearly as if they were made yesterday. But you can\u2019t. They\u2019re the ones that got away. In their place, I have lessons learned.
\nQuestions<\/i>
\nWhat can you learn from your mistakes?<\/i>
\nHow many lessons can you learn from a single mistake?<\/i>
\nWhat can you do to try not to make the same mistake twice?<\/i>
\nHow can you learn from other\u2019s mistakes?<\/i>
\nWhat can others learn from your mistakes?<\/i>
\nRead more The Stories Behind The Images here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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