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The Winter clearing of Bury Wood, to increase areas of pasture and as a consequence the bio-diversity , Wood Chips are the by- product, and the piles that generate heat and gases as they decompose are good for invertebrates that feed on the organic matter and brings in the Wagtails.
A view of this magnificent coal-powered generating station, one of the few in our area that is still in service....
The sight and sound of a calling Chaffinch is something that doesn't really generate a lot of interest and yet to me our gardens and woodlands would be a different place without them.
From a high base they are sadly in decline. There are two diseases that affect the Chaffinches, Fringilla Papillomavirus and Trichomonosis. Fringilla Papillomavirus is a mite which causes lumps and a ‘scaly’ look on the birds legs/feet. It can also spread to their beak. Trichomonosis affects a bird’s digestive system and is a disease caused by a parasite which is spread during breeding season when a bird regurgitates its food to feed its young.
This photo was taken in the woodlands closeby the visitors centre at Bempton. It is a great example of the variety to be found at this RSPB managed reserve. Everyone automatically thinks, seabirds when Bempton is mentioned, but there is also a good variety of farmland and woodland birds to be found.
Just for a bit of fun I played around with generating a Halloween image from scratch. Spring is a season of life, light and colour unlike the Northern Hemisphere where the harvest and autumn/fall colours dominate. I thought I would throw in a skeletal Kangaroo to try and portray the season. All the AI houses had the moon behind them. When I specified a sickle moon the Ai added in a second moon to the side! Now that would be unearthly indeed.
A gas electric power generating plant in Whitehorse. I think this one is used mainly to help cover peak demand periods when the hydro and large diesel generators can't satiate the growing need for power in Whitehorse. During especially cold spells when people are running their electric heaters, car block heaters, and more, this plant comes online. It's a very real and visible indicator that our lifestyles have an impact on the environment.
Photo taken with the Olympus OM-D E-M1 and M.Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro mounted to a lightweight travel tripod. All raw conversion and post processing were completed in DxO PhotoLab 6.1.1.
Here is something you won’t see from me again.
I generated this image using one of the free AI generating programs online. It was not a test, as I have no intentions of using AI technology to create images. I simply wanted to create it to illustrate a point that is clearly conveyed with the banned symbol I have plastered over this AI generated image. The fact is that elements of this image have been stolen from legitimate photographs available online. The whole process by which AI was trained to create these images was legalised theft! It’s in the fine print of most photo platforms. They have the right to use our images to train AI to undercut the very basis of photography itself. Virtual Photography, Flickr calls it. They should be ashamed of themselves. There is NOTHING photographic about these images at all. And nothing humanly creative.
But just when we think it can’t get worse for real photographers*** along comes the first AI Camera that links to your smartphone. It’s quite amazing to watch these three recently published “reviews” on YouTube, but when you read some of the comments from actual photographers there is a growing sense of horror at what is unfolding, and the meek resistance to it.
It looks like this will also be the first camera that comes with a monthly subscription. This is typical of most new technology these days (remember when Adobe went full subscription model? Now almost everyone does it.). Owning things outright will soon become a thing of the past. Soon all EVs will come with an annual subscription. Remember that saying from Dr Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum, “You will own nothing, but you will be happy.” This is not communism, this is corporate theft – a way to fleece people of all their income. No thank you. I resist! Call me what you will. I don't care.
So here are the reviews of this diabolical "camera".
This AI Camera Beat Canon, Nikon & Sony: Caira Review
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEFyRPSqQL0&t=447s
By the way Tony & Chelsea Northrup used to be a serious photography channel. Now Tony is just a paid shill for the next tech thing.
Some notable comments:
“Great I can have photos of moments that didn't happen. Cool. “ @JimmySaul888
“Help destroy photography as a legitimate art! Buy this camera!” @odinata
“Tony... ‘pull up’. What happened to you man. The instant process you mention being old and slow is exactly how we learned the ‘ART’ of photography. Connecting to AI is not the core of photography. Do you really hear yourself? The experience of getting to the location, planning the shots on site and making good imagery is a skill and art. I don't really know how people learn the art by asking AI to do it.”
@curtismattingly7505
“In what way does this camera beat Canon, Nikon, or Sony?” @capnjrock2952
To which I added the comment:
“Nothing beats my Rolleiflex. Nothing!”
The AI camera of your dreams. And nightmares.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B65b7ZV_WRU
“I saw a post from Mastodon today of an art teacher describing something happening in their classroom: they can't show middle schoolers any art that they will believe a human made. They, by default, suspect it is all AI. Of course, that also means that none of them imagine that they could create something wonderful. I thought of this throughout your video—not only is it not your memory ... but is it also just teaching people that their own life isn't beautiful and that they can't create anything beautiful? Horrifying thought.”
@malorisaurus
A photographer's dream camera or a worry? Caira, the A.I. M43 Camera - RED35 Preview
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kWkElF2SEw
“This is no future I want any part of. Now I understand why I’ve been shooting so much Polaroid photography lately. Simpler and so much more rewarding when you get it right.” @WhoIsSerafin
*** The effects of AI on photographers are small scale compared to the jobs apocalypse it will generate. Some AI experts (including the founder of AI technology, Geoffrey Hinton) have suggested that by 2030 up to 50% of all jobs will be lost to the machines. God knows how ordinary people will live as the billionaires turn into trillionaires. Perhaps a global revolution? In this social context rewatch the sci-fi movie “Logan’s Run” (1976).
The AI Safety Expert: These Are The Only 5 Jobs That Will Remain In 2030! - Dr. Roman Yampolskiy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UclrVWafRAI&t=148s
Coincidentally this article was published by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation today:
AI is changing jobs fast — and Australians are beginning to wonder how they’ll stay relevant
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-06/workers-face-career-change...
Call me a Luddite if you will, but the post-human future is upon us!
I thought of mono when I took this shot with my polarizer ,this is Shoreham gas fired power station which brings our power soon to be aided by an off shore wind farm near to where I live at Worthing
Rankine Generating Station aka The Canadian Niagara Power Generating Station.
It's located close to the brink of the horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls Canada and is based on a design by Nikola Tesla.
These photos where taken at a tour/Open house in 2019.
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Free to use AI image generators are popping up all over the internet. This one is by Adobe.
As I look through the "Explore" images on Flickr, more and more images appear to be AI generated - I say appear as its getting harder and harder to tell.
(This image I created with the free Adobe Firefly is easily identified as not a photograph - but many are far more difficult to spot).
And as if to prove a point - - - - this image was Explored on 16th August 2023
Inside the Generating Hall of the Hoover Dam, Nevada/Arizona, USA.
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(THIS IMAGE IS COMPUTER GENERATED)
This image is © KM Edinburgh. It would be an offence for you to remove the copyright mark, or post the image elsewhere without my written permission.
Daryl Hemshaw's "From Daimler to Scania" book discusses the development of Nottingham's "Standard" bus. Towards the end of the book there are examples of livery options that were considered by NCT around the time of de-regulation. This is an attempt to show how one of those might have looked.... A somewhat complicated layout and one which on balance, I'm glad wasn't adopted.
MTSE (Metuchen NJ-Selirk NY Auto Rack) with 94 cars is passing the Indian Point Nuclear Generating Station located in Buchanan N.Y. on the east bank of the Hudson River. Even though it's 5 months old C40-8W 6162 is still looking pretty sharp as it rolls 94cars,4300 tons, north on 07-13-1993 through Tomkins Cove N.Y. along with SD40-2 6472. Conrail's River Line. Howard Kent Jr.
Rendered using Blender - a free 3D software. To see the 3D model used to generate this image, click here.