80th anniversary of Warsaw Uprising

Young men climbed on a public toilet in the centre of Warsaw this afternoon to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising.

At 5pm, sirens rang out and suddenly red flares were lit as a large cargo plane flew overhead. Smoke from the flares filled the air, and it got noticeably cooler as the sun was temporarily blocked.

Polish flags fly as they are surrounded by smoke from flares
Photo by my teenager who was there with me.

The flares and smoke cleared within minutes, and a commanding voice in Polish continued to talk to the massive crowd.

A military service attended by uniformed soldiers and two elderly people, one in a wheelchair.

Earlier in the day, we observed a simple military service. Two elderly people were there, and it’s obviously about the Uprising, but if anyone recognises them, I’d love to know more.

This episode of Dan Snow’s History Hits podcast does a great job covering what happened when Poles rose up against heir Nazi occupiers 80 years ago today. I found a Reddit thread about it too.


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St Kinga’s Chapel in the Salt Mine

Buried deep underground in the Wieliczka Salt Mine is a huge man made chamber called St Kinga’s Chapel. It’s quite a sight to see after wandering down tunnel and after tunnel. You come across chambers on the way there, but this one is the special one, and it’s a consecrated Catholic Church where they hold religious ceremonies.

It’s 101m underground, 11m high and has a floor space of 465 metres squared.

Unfortunately, we didn’t have much time to spend there as the mine is really busy at this time of year with tourist groups coming in and out all the time!


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Lightroom Classic doesn’t always adjust time correctly

I can confirm that this bug still exists. If you change the capture time of a photo in Lightroom Classic it may not do it correctly. The time was wrong on my camera and I had to change 249 images this evening. As I went through them later, I noticed a few were out of order, when sorting by “capture time”.

When the time is changed, there are three fields that need to be modified:

  • Date Time Original
  • Date Time Digitized
  • Date Time

Most of the time all three are changed, but sometimes, only the first one is.

Metadata from a photo showing the same time in each of the date time fields.
Metadata from a photo showing the different times in the second and third date time fields.

Attempts to change the time failed again and again, so I changed the sort order to “Filename” which works just fine, but it’s annoying me that there are bunches of photos in today’s photos that have jumped through time.

Anyone figured out how to fix this?

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