Tag: photography
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Well that was pretty spectacular. 🤩
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Over the silhouette of hills, a total solar eclipse is just coming to an end, with a 'diamond ring' effect resulting from the sun's reappearance visible.
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Wikipedia @ 25: Jim Marshall
Today's random Wikipedia article was Jim Marshall (photographer). I enjoyed reading about him and even looked up some of the many photographs that he took of musicians in the 60s and 70s, but decided that because I was literally just writing about a photographer that I learned-about on Wikipedia, it probably wasn't the time to write about another!
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Wikipedia @ 25: Yousuf Karsh
Wikipedia is 25 years old this year, and in celebration of that I found my way via a Mercurial crater to the article about Yousuf Karsh, one of the most-important portrait photographers of the 20th century.
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Caution: No Swimming
Hurrah! I just made my first successful submission to Curious Cones, a weblog collecting photographs of traffic cones spotted in unusual places.
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Curious Cones
Curious Cones is a catalogue of traffic cones in unusual places. How wonderful and weird our World Wide Web is, that such a thing can exist.
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This telegraph pole in the centre of Eynsham carries the scars of hosting countless community announcements, notices, and flyers over the last 30 years.
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Close-up of a wooden telegraph pole littered with rusted staples and drawing pins of different sizes and ages, with an out-of-focus urban street disappearing into the distance.
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Riding With Strangers: California Hitchhikers in the 1970s
From 1973 onwards Doug Biggert, driving around California, took an (analogue!) photograph of every hitch-hiker to whom he offered a lift. Now you can view a gallery and read his story.
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ChatGPT beats GeoGuessr
Given nothing more than a screenshot or two of my game screen, from the starting position only, ChatGPT plays GeoGuessr better than I ever could. Apart from cheating at GeoGuessr, what else could this mean? Is this going to be a scary new weapon in the toolkit of Internet stalkers?
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EXIF geodata, and what if you took a picture on the moon?
Cassie Jones asks what EXIF photo metadata would - or should - look like for a photograph taken on the moon. It got me thinking, a bit.
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Oldest Digital Photo... of Me
The oldest photo I own of myself was taken in 1982, when I was almost 2 years old. But how old is the oldest DIGITAL photo of me? Let's try to find it...
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[Bloganuary] Traditions
By virtue, perhaps, of being a three-parent family, we draw family traditions from a wider array of sources than many. And then we supplement those with even more that we've adopted from elsewhere or invented for ourselves. Want to hear about some of them?
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Freezing Fog
Gorgeous freezing fog over the fields on the school run this morning.
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Monster Munch Sandwich
Experimenting with some unusual combinations in anticipation of International Crisp Sandwich Day. Today's is Roast Beef Monster Munch on Farmhouse White.
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Crowdsourced Burger Photography
If I were crowned Burger King, I'd try to distract people from the marketing lawsuit farce by crowdsourcing my food photos...
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Child Photographers
Taking photos of children isn't difficult. Unless it's the early 1980s and that child is Dan.