grahamkidd.bsky.social
Old duffer with a camera in North Wales, UK, hoping to one day produce something worthwhile. Hiding in plain sight, swimming against the tide in a sea of indifference. LFC.
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Thank you, Maureen.
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Likewise. I've had papers & miscellaneous junk piled up on my dining room table, right behind where I sit at my PC, for what seems like about a year. I finally sorted it out yesterday & put everything where it should be. It's been eating me but now feels like a huge weight has been lifted off me.
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It has a roof-rack, too - extra child-transportation capacity - another two at least.
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But it's not a bad pic - I like the alignment of the diagonals in the flag and the parasol.
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As do I, and so we should! We can all respect each other's way of doing things.
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The same is true I guess, of most consumer activities - we have to consume more and continuously. Capitalism! Pretty much all of the kit I've bought in recent times ahs been 2nd hand. Agree about the subscription services, but they're a relatively small running cost compared to film, esp. non-35mm.
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But I'm not here to knock analogue. There's room for all, including honest AI. There are several accounts on Flickr that are exclusively AI, and presented as such, with some seriously impressive imagery. You just have to worry about whose images the AI companies are using to train their software.
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Point taken, but with digital, all of the cost is upfront, unless you use a lot of subscription services, whereas analogue is an ongoing expense. And, unless you exhibit or publish your work, analogue can limit your audience. You still have to digitise your images to reach the online viewer-base.
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Some good points there, Steve. The problems for analogue to be a response to AI are a) it's so expensive, putting it out of reach for many people, & b) the digital genie's out of the bottle & isn't going back in. Legislation's needed to force AI creators to label their work clearly as such, perhaps.
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I get that. I tried a b&w conversion, but it didn't really work, which surprised me.
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I've booked tickets for the Waverley's sailing from Llandudno on May 29th. I photographed it at the pier there last summer.
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I've read many articles debunking the need for huge megapixel counts, at least amongst the community that isn't going to need massive prints. There's certainly something in that, but 2.9MP may be stretching the point!
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I don't recall writing this fess, but it could easily have been me, word for word. Fortunately, my partner feels exactly the same, so I never get any pressure from her to get up and dance. Even dad-dancing makes me feel self-conscious and absurd.
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Potting the brown.
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"Round-pin plugs in the UK conforming to BS 546 were largely phased out in favour of the current BS 1363 with rectangular pins starting in 1947. The BS 1363 standard with its rectangular pins became the dominant type shortly after WWII."
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Still living the dream, eh, Steve?
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The Z2 was an unusual design, and despite the limited spec by today's standards (only up to ISO 800, for example), it was capable of making excellent photos. Pentax bought the Konica Minolta brand, IIRC, and it disappeared, which was a bit sad.
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I've been feeding the insatiable local jackdaw population for years. It feels like a form of community service, but I'm not sure what my crime was.
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Don't be too hard on the pheasant - that may be its last meal.
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It doesn't work for me. I retired from a career in IT in 2009. My skill-set is redundant, but I'm still the go-to first line of support for several friends. I don't mind, but their expectations can be a bit optimistic. I mostly solve issues by the process of elimination rather than knowledge.
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Oh yes, I seem to remember seeing pictures of those, and my grandparents talking fondly of them.
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😄
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What's this "bus" of which you speak?
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It's much less clear-cut than that. Don't write the coffee shops, nail bars and fried chicken emporia just yet.