User:Donald Trung/Lost pictures

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There are hundreds of photographs I took for Wikimedia Commons that for one reason or another have become "lost pictures 📷" that I can't upload here. On this page 📃 I will list them all and explain why I am not able to (currently) upload them, hopefully 🤞🏻 this will change in the future but as of the current circumstances I am not able to upload these photographs and in some cases this constitutes entire subjects not being represented I otherwise could've represented. Those photographs aren't "unsalvageable" per se as they are still in my wife's Google Photos cloud ☁, but as they are not locally available on any of her devices I would have to upload them one-by-one and most of these are part of series so I'd rather upload them 40 (forty) at-a-time using the MediaWiki Upload Wizard.

Lost BlackBerry pictures 📷

Now here's a little bit of a disclaimer, my beautiful wife's BlackBerry is still functional... As far as one can call it "functional", however as its screen is cracked several issues have prevented me from uploading the +/- 80 photographs I took with it for Wikimedia Commons. On the day that I took those (I would say from memory 86) photographs I wasn't wearing a jacket 🧥 that could carry my wife's BlackBerry, so I placed it in my youngest son's buggy and as he was playing the BlackBerry fell on the ground and a huge crack appeared on the screen, initially no issues occured and I made 40 (forty) or so photographs and continued to take around that number more without issue, on my way home 🏠 suddenly the BlackBerry started displaying issues, it started to randomly "click" on buttons without my interference. After arriving home it only got worse and constantly rebooting the mobile telephone 📞 didn't work, eventually my wife was forced to purchase an LG mobile telephone to replace this one, I attempted to upload these images with the new LG but I then found out that Google Chrome cannot download images from Google Photos (or Google+ Photos) more than one-at-a-time so I (temporarily) gave up, when I tried moving the images with a USB cable 🚠 to a friend's computer 💻 I couldn't find them and I haven't attempted to "salvage" them since with any success. (Almost) ironically this device does seem to "work" today (something we found out a month after this story after my wife dropped her LG in a river, see below) but I would have to rotate the BlackBerry 3 (three) times in 3 (three) different directions to fill in every field of the UploadWizard which is "too much trouble" for my time ⌚ and would require precious time I could use to actually upload images from various other sources about the monetary history of China.

Lost photographs 📸

• There is a bankrupt petrol station in the Groninger village of Oude Pekela, the logo of this petrol ⛽ station looks like a circle with two waves (akin to the Supreme Ultimate symbol) "swimming around it". Maybe I should describe it as "a yellow whirlpool inside of a field of cobalt", anyhow the building looks as if it has been deserted for quite a number of years and I can't seem to find the name of the brand and/or company that operated it so it might actually have a value for someone writing ✍🏻 about this historical(?) company.  Reproduced.

• For quite some time in my street I saw a lorry 🚛 of a company that recycled ♻ frying oil 🛢 and frying fat into fuel, I did see several lorries of that company (Rotie) around but didn't take any photographs of them (while I probably should).  Reproduced.

• I took around... Well, quite a lot of photographs of "a hanging space" for youth next to the Pekel river. This building kind of resembles an outpost and is heavily vandalised.  Reproduced.

• A stolperstein across this building, this one was kind of hard to find and easy to miss as it's quite neglected and located next to the skate ⛸ park.  Reproduced.

• A few local street signs in the Groninger village of Oude Pekela.  Probably reproduced.

Note 📝: I've been able to create approximate reproductions of these "lost pictures". --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 10:15, 29 October 2018 (UTC) .

•  All of these images have now been recovered and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 12:09, 14 November 2019 (UTC) .

Lost LG pictures pictures 📷

Now the way I lost access to the photographs I took with my wife's LG mobile 📱 telephone 📞 is quite stupid, it's something one would only expect a cartoon character to happen to, but it also happened to my wife. Well, while my wife's French best-friend booked an AirBnB in Delft, South-Holland (without even consulting me) she would stay there with here for 3 (three) days while they travelled the Holland region, one of the days my wife was there she stayed at her French best-friend's Vietnamese friend's German husband's house 🏠 in The Hague which is built on top of a river, while my wife fell asleep there she dropped her LG right into the river, they tried to salvage it but it was "unreachable", so my wife's French best-friend lend her (indefinitely) the Nokia (Microsoft) Lumia 730 Dual SIM I now use to take photographs for Wikimedia Commons. As this is an older model I was initially reluctant to use it as much for photography as the quality is less than satisfactory but as I don't really have much of a choice and some events are simply "once in a lifetime" or even "once in forever" it's better to make "non-professionally looking" photographs with a camera 📷 from a bygone era with the quality that goes with it than to not make photographs at all. But yeah, this was the last camera 📷 I operated with reasonably sharp pictures and built-in geolocation (that works!) so I still kind of miss it, despite using for probably less than a month.

Lost photographs 📸

• Between 200 (two-hundred) and 300 (three-hundred) photographs of an event called the "Rozenfestival" ("Rose 🌹 Festival"), there were quite some interesting themes as well as a performance of several prominent bands and other locally well-known artists and organisations. Unfortunately I didn't upload this batch of images at the time ⌚ as I was busy writing ✍🏻 Wikipedia articles in my free time, hopefully I can one day recover these images, but as this was from an event I can't just attempt to "recreate them" as I could with many of the others listed here.

• Various (relatively "minor") photographs around the Province of Groningen.

• Various photographs of Delft of a second-hand shop, Italian, French, Japanese, and Chinese restaurants, a very interesting looking Thai-Laotian restaurant, a Chinese jeweler named "Xuemei" (https://www.xuemei.nl/), a Salvation Army shop 🏪, an Albert Heijn, the local market, a great number of shops specialised in Delft Blue, Ancient Roman & Greek coins (sold inside of a second-hand shop), VOC Duiten, colonial Dutch East-Indian coinages with Arabic inscriptions, a very large number of Chinese shops including a Chinese hair-dressing shop, Chinese supermarket, Chinese massage bar, Etc. And a lot of other shops.

For this reason that I hope 🤞🏻 that I could one day download all of those pictures again from my wife's Google Photos (infinite) cloud ☁ storage account, but unfortunately unlike Google Drive, Google Photos doesn't save all metadata and even reduces the quality of the photographs in order to make "the infinite storage" affordable for Google (Alphabet, Inc.), but as I can't upload these images right now I ℹ simply wish 🌠 to document their existence as "lost pictures" being around 500 (five-hundred) files 📁 that could've made Wikimedia Commons richer and have contributed to the historical documentation and preservation of the subjects they represented.

•  All of these images have now been recovered and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 00:16, 15 November 2019 (UTC) .

Update (November 2019)

My wife purchased a Samsung Galaxy Tab 🌌, from this device I have managed to recover all of the above photographs, I had organised these into two Google Photos albums, one named "BlackBerry "Lost Pictures"" and another named "LG "Lost Pictures"".

Link for fixing a non-reloading page: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Donald_Trung/Lost_pictures&redlink=1#Lost_LG_pictures_pictures_📷

I have organised these all into a new folder 📁 named "BlackBerry & LG 'Lost Pictures' " and have transferred them to my Elephone P8 Mini, I will "restore" these photographs by uploading them sometime in the future 🔮, indefinitely delayed due to the ongoing US Banknote Contest of Wikimedia Commons. The photographs number 80 (eighty) from the BlackBerry, and somewhere between the 300 (three-hundred) and 400 (four-hundred) for the LG smartphone. Newer photographs will currently take precedent over these (formerly) "lost pictures".

Wikimedia Commons would then be the "Fourth (4th) back-up" (though all of these photographs were initially created to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons), first (1st) being my wife's Google Photos account, second (2nd) being my Dropbox account, and third (3rd) being my Google Photos account. The sheer amount of LG photographs had originally discouraged me from uploading it while the device was still in existence.

I have successfully recovered all of these images and uploaded them to Wikimedia Commons. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 00:17, 15 November 2019 (UTC) .