Is there an expression for missing something obvious right in front of your eyes?
This happened earlier this year and slipped through the blog cracks. I was doing some research for a healthcare rant I eventually published over there at medium.com. I had looked up some stats for ACA usage in Arizona, and had a link from Healthinsurance.org open in a tab for a week or more.
It wasn’t until I was writing and decided to link to the page. I scrolled to the top, selected the text for the title, went back for the URL… something nudged my mind, and I looked at the photo there. Hey, it was my own photo! And a photo of my friend, Giulia!
I almost missed my own photo reused, and it was right in front of my face, and I almost missed it.
Not only that, this site got everything right there in a well done attribution. They had flipped the photo and converted it to black and white, this is the original:
Giulia’s Smile in the Sunset flickr photo by cogdogblog shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license
That was when Giulia visited Arizona in 2012, taken somewhere out along the Salt River, east of Phoenix.
Not lost is some irony is the photo they picked to represent information on insurance coverage in Arizona is of someone who lives in Canada!
Speaking of seeing my photos, I had told Robin Derosa that I am “chuffed” (showing of my familiarity with British expressions, which is not even relevant) that she’s been making use of my photos in her presentation slides:
https://twitter.com/actualham/status/838162801130627073
And she’s on a heck of a presentation circuit. Thanks Robin!
It’s interesting to see photos taken from different times and places threaded together as metaphors for her talks. Some are familiar but take some memory scratching to recall where and when they were taken. And for full irony, Giulia makes an appearance again in slide 25…
Featured image: 8351 flickr photo by Panegyrics of Granovetter shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license
