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Forty-five degrees - melting snow - and a dry highway as Doc and I drove into Glennallen this morning. It feels and looks more like spring than winter - but we are truly grateful for the break. Next week the temperatures will drop down to single digits, and snow is predicted - until then we are enjoying our "spring break".
I took this photo of little Moose Creek this morning - notice that it is still open and running - that is quite unusual for this time of year. This is the same little creek that managed to flood everything in its path all the way to Glennallen during spring break up this year.
(Moose Creek heads in Twin Lakes and flows southeast through Glennallen, to Tazlina River, Copper River Basin (USGS).
3 out of 4 butterflies PREFER CANON when being photographed at Callaway Gardens:)
Sorry, my Nikon friends! I had to!
It was freezing cold, but so beautiful!
The upload of Wim: www.flickr.com/photos/16209124@N00/6834112677/
'Grim 01' aka unmarked USAFE McDonnell-Douglas F-15C Eagle 86-0175 of the 493rd FS/48thFW holds clear before departing Lakenheath's Runway 24
After 30 years with the Squadron, their F-15C's have now left for home
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my friend asked me to take pictures for her sweet 16 :):)
it's going to be on the front of the invitations!@##%
that is exciting to me.
well, i don't usually shoot portraits, so we'll see how this goes.
and plus, this is my first real "shoot" ish kind of thing. i hope it
comes out decent enough for her to use 'em. i'm going to her house
next weekend! i am stoked.
RAIN!!!!!!!!
I live in the Central Valley of California in Fresno County and we are having a drought. So RAIN is dear and it rained all day on Thursday!!! :)
On their way back to Minneapolis, a small group gathers in Cologne to see the 261 on this pleasant autumn afternoon.
Perfect for black and white. But even pretty good for color once the clouds started thinning out.
Davenport Landing, just north of Santa Cruz, California.
Found in Explore, September 5, 2023.
It must be frustrating to fly overhead searching for a snail, hover to find one, maneuver, slide into the water, pick it up, fly away, look and..............emptyl!! Dang it! Discard and try again!
Female snail kite taken in Florida.
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Une variante d'une image déjà postée, traitée avec l'application Prisma (effet "Wave").
Cela lui donne un côté "plein hiver, avec bourrasque de neige".
FALLLL :D:D i'm so so excited. for
the leaves
the weather
and halloween,
and just everythingeverything :):)
and thankyouthankyou to
for the lovely testimonial :D
...that he stopped the Sun and moved the Earth. So here the sun is shining on his house. Nicolaus Copernicus's house, Toruń, Poland.
It is said that Minolta was named after Japanese words "mi-no-ru-ta", which means ripening rice field.
It appears as though Jim Farrel has his train of dead heading coaches well in hand as as he notches out and picks up "passenger train speed" with NYS&W SD45 #6500 at Hudson Junction near Campbell Hall, NY. Joe White holds down the firemans side of the cab. Both men have since retired from the "Q".
It is happening again.
Checking your phone won’t stop it.
Full circle, a rugged wheel has turned and stopped
As if retired from its last monster truck rally
Its shadow as heavy as its material density
You sat there all day distracting yourself as usual
But that wheel remained like a portal
If you went up to it, it could be dangerous
First, an arm and then a foot might pass through.
You can see yourself and your life in a different timeline
One in which you didn’t waste your days.
An adventurer for the ages.
You traveled to all the wonders
Had no regrets
Enjoyed each moment of your existence
And one day that other self heard a faint
Ringing in your other ears
A sharp pain behind your alternative eyes
And you just knew, didn’t you?
We tire of the same realities day after day.
I glimpsed a girl passing through
A young human can still eclipse the whole world.
Speeding like a scene in a fast forwarded film
Upset because she had lost a part of herself
A single eyelash carrying the weight of reality
Landing on her cheek softly like a secret
Stolen by a single breeze
A wish she would never get back again.
**All poems and photos are copyrighted**
Breeding adults
We spend a few hours in the arctic tundra waiting for this bird to come closer to us but it never did.
This small chat enters the North American arctic from both directions, via both Greenland and Alaska, but almost all go back to the Old World in winter; only the occasional straggler appears south of Canada. Northern Wheatears can be found in summer on rocky tundra, where they are inconspicuous until they fly.
Wheatears that breed in far northeastern Canada fly across the Atlantic and then south to Africa. Wheatears from Alaska go around the opposite side of the world, traveling through Siberia and Asia to reach Africa. Despite being the same species, the two groups of birds prepare for and then fly their migration routes in radically different ways.
AI is invading all over the photo and news pages!
This rebel photog used it to make a point!
Boris Eldagsen’s award-winning picture. Photograph: © Boris Eldagsen, Germany
Sony world photography awards
Photographer admits prize-winning image was AI-generated
German artist Boris Eldagsen says entry to Sony world photography awards was designed to provoke debate
Jamie Grierson
@JamieGrierson
Mon 17 Apr 2023 17.49 BST
A photographer is refusing a prestigious award after admitting to being a “cheeky monkey” and generating the prize-winning image using artificial intelligence.
The German artist Boris Eldagsen revealed on his website that he was not accepting the prize for the creative open category, which he won at last week’s Sony world photography awards.
The winning photograph depicted two women from different generations in black and white.
In a statement on his website, Eldagsen, who studied photography and visual arts at the Art Academy of Mainz, conceptual art and intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, and fine art at the Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication in Hyderabad, said he “applied as a cheeky monkey” to find out if competitions would be prepared for AI images to enter. “They are not,” he added.
“We, the photo world, need an open discussion,” said Eldagsen. “A discussion about what we want to consider photography and what not. Is the umbrella of photography large enough to invite AI images to enter – or would this be a mistake?
“With my refusal of the award I hope to speed up this debate.”
He said this was a “historic moment” as it was the first time an AI image had won a prestigious international photography competition, adding: “How many of you knew or suspected that it was AI generated? Something about this doesn’t feel right, does it?
“AI images and photography should not compete with each other in an award like this. They are different entities. AI is not photography. Therefore I will not accept the award.”
Eldagsen suggested donating the prize to a photo festival hosted in Odesa, Ukraine.
The stunt comes at a time of intense debate over the use and implications of AI with some issuing apocalyptic warnings that the technology is on the brink of irreversibly damaging the human experience.
Recent advancements in the use of AI in chatbots, driverless cars, song-writing software and the development of pharmaceuticals has spurred the discussion. Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, said concerns about AI had kept him awake at night and warned the technology can be “very harmful” if incorrectly deployed.
The Guardian has approached Creo, the art events organisers behind the competition, for comment.
Bogliasco - Genoa, Italy
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A setting looking to the east while taking in views of Yosemite Valley. My thinking in composing this image was to capture a layered look, or more appropriately one of a look beyond. Nearby would be the forest of trees at the edge of a grassy meadow I was standing in. Beyond would be peaks and ridges of the Cathedral Rocks. Because of the haze and smoke present in the skies above from nearby wildfires, I decided to close in on the focal length to ensure that I minimized those skies while focusing on the trees and mountains.