I think we’ve reached the place where nothing is real. I’m thinking specifically of the Internet and the dead Internet theory. However, what got me to this was thinking about Instagram post I saw today. It was a woman who is showing what her husband packed for her lunch and in there was everything from full bags of cookies to a Ziploc ...

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People post the same picture, one in colour and the other in b/w. Then they ask which one is better. I’m calling bullshit. Monochrome photography is its own thing. Shooting monochrome requires a different eye and a different perspective on light and shadow. You shoot monochrome intentionally, not as an option to take an average picture...

Things are more as they are now than they e ever been.

Is consciousness necessary for intelligence? Seems to me that having an evaluative step in a stimulus response loop adds time and decreases efficiency. And yet here we are, apparently conscious beings who need to think and reflect about things. What is the evolutionary advantage to this?

I struggle with 4 dimensions let alone 11.

To everyone who supports the male gaze.

Playing with the Ricoh GR IIIx

What up??? 6:30pm on a Sunday and every place is packed!

WTF... I've been a paid member of Flickr since 2003. Just today I log in for my daily browse of the Explore pics and I am faced with an ad block message noting that Flickr relies on ad revenue (since when??) and my ad blocker should be disabled. I already pay an annual fee. What is this now???

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All these years avoiding porn and they want me to fluff the rice? Wha..?

For the win.

There are many Virgils helping people along.

Discovered who has been stealing the outdoor chew sticks.

RIP George Wendt

Years ago I was made a mod for a Flickr group. I post often enough but rarely have I moderated anything. People post the right pictures and no one complains. I just did my first ban. It was so minor that I second guess myself but a big city in the USA is not Canadian Prairie. Silly? Maybe. But with US/CAN relations as they are, I wasn'...

Turns out this beast has a learning curve. Creativity can be enhanced through built-in limitations but this one is really pushing me. The reports of challenges in low light due to the F4 aperture are real. Push the ISO and it works out, but don't use a film recipe that includes weak or strong grain.

GFX100RF for the win!

Let's go back 30 years. I'm thinking of the mid 1990s. At that time nearly all of us wandered around with a paper planner or pocket calendar of some kind. Nobody had a backup, and if you lost your calendar you had to start from scratch and memory. Some of us tried things like the Apple Newton, and then eventually a Palm Pilot, and if y...

Suddenly, nothing to say.

A happy and quick tax season for me. No let's get mother nature on track with some warm sunny weather!

I wanted a non-gmail/outlook/etc email address again and so I reactivated my account.