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Landscape and Astro photography 📷 enthusiast from Canberra, 🇦🇺. #FujifilmX shooter. Views are my own. https://desparoz.com https://linktr.ee/desparoz https://www.astrobin.com/users/desparoz/
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✅❌✅✅✅✅❌✅✅❌ The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 539 I got 7/10!

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Windswept sea, a restless storm, Crashing hard where stone is worn. Golden dusk and storm collide, Salt and shadow, sky and tide. Fury roars, yet time will show. Even tempests fade and go. Steel and stone may shake and sway. But dawn will bring a calmer day.

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Get lost.

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✅✅✅❌✅❌✅❌✅❌ The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 538 I got 6/10!

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Really enjoyed this video about using ChatGPT to critique an image and provide editing advice. I'm not personally a fan of generative AI but do like the tools for summarisation or critique of existing work.

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✅✅❌❌✅✅✅✅❌✅ The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 537 I got 7/10!

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Great conversation by Caro Ryan with Dr Paul Lucken about planning to survive In adventure activities

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It's almost 7 years since I visited Wanaka in New Zealand, and photographed #thatWanakaTree at sunrise. The crowd disappeared almost as soon as the sun was up. I hung around & captured this image. I love re-discovering old images and finishing them off for sharing. https://www.desparoz.com/wanaka-b

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❌✅✅✅✅✅❌✅✅✅ The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 536 I got 8/10!

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Rural Colours. Rural Moods. I love the saturated colours in rural Australia, especially before or after a storm. On this I came across this old railway crossing near Captain's Flat and was quite taken by the rich colours and the looming weather.

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If you're looking for a feed of landscape photography try this out from @danielhuckmann.com 😊😊 bsky.app/profile/did:...

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❌✅❌✅✅✅✅❌✅✅ The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 535 I got 7/10!

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Really cool to see a whole bunch of photographers joining both Mastodon and Bluesky recently. I am not sure which of these platforms is going to be my main focus, but right now I am enjoying both.

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Great to see Royce Bair on Glass at https://glass.photo/roycebairphoto.

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❌✅✅❌✅❌❌✅✅✅ The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 532 I got 6/10!

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My #Astrophotography focuses on Nightscape photography, but I occasionally play with deep space imagery. This image shows Orions Belt & Sword, and also the Great Orion, Running Man, the Horse Head and the Flame Nebulae.

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Trimix xkcd.com/3035

submitted 53 days ago • 35 comments

Good morning #bluesky. Star trails over the harbour, St Ives, Cornwall UK.

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Here's a link to one of my first deep scape images that I have just posted to AstroBin. While I have a lot to learn about shooting and processing deepscapes, I am pretty happy with how this one has come out… https://astrob.in/hz0gfy/0/ #astrophotography

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

Fascinating coolness about the number 2025

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If you have trouble with #polaralignment in your #astrophotography, check out this video from @dylanodonnell.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7FV...

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Deep Space Station 34 received a clear beacon tone from the #ParkerSolarProbe after its close encounter with the Sun on 24th December.📡🛰️☀️ Congratulations to the mission science team & engineers @jhuapl and @NASA on this historic achievement. #DSS34 blogs.nasa.gov/parkersolarpro…

submitted 66 days ago • 3 comments

Picard management tip: Take your leisure time seriously. A relaxed captain is a sane captain.

submitted 67 days ago • 3 comments

Perspective of the western sky from near Tharwa, ACT, showing Crux (the Southern Cross), the Coalsack Nebula and the Carina Nebula. #astrophotography #canberra View at

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My fourth and final retrospective blog looks back at 2024 and its amazing array of sky sights and events, the best in a very long time for me. 2024 had it all — all-sky auroras, a bright comet, and a total eclipse of the Sun. Enjoy ... and happy holidays to all! amazingsky.net/2024/12/21/2...

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✅✅✅❌✅✅❌✅✅❌ ✅❌✅✅❌❌❌✅✅❌ ✅✅✅✅❌✅❌✅❌❌ ✅✅❌✅✅✅❌✅✅✅ The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 531 I got 26/40!

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A really interesting recap on a snake bite during a #bushwalk in 🇦🇺 and the #firstaid and evacuation. Happily a good outcome.

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