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My son and his family blessed me with a birthday celebration on Saturday. It was a marvelous party!!
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2 milestones- beginning potty training and riding a scooter. Nice weather has returned!
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Porsche 918 Spyder
Strasbourg France
June 2015
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Finally...my stream reaches 20k views milestone...i know it might not be alot for many ppl(infact it could be very low compare to most of u)...but as someone who was totally an idiot on photography ..it is actually quite amazing that i had bought my camera for 8months already!
i stil remember the time when i bought the first camera of my life on Nov 08..the very first photo i took..untill now....so my stream actually act as my personal photography journey...and i do hope that u could see the any slight improvement i had compare to 8months ago...my shots might not please your eyes..i dont have any beautiful landscape shots..im not a pretty girl or handsome guy so there isnt any nice selfportrait for u too...so if any of my shots hurt ur eyes..im really sorry..LOL...
lets hope i'll continue(if i ever started) to improve..and for whoever that contributes my 20k views..i really appreciate your time...any comments u've left me.. <33
This is the second milestone picture of the kind I post, the original one can be found here:
www.flickr.com/photos/christiancorsano/52119038332/in/alb...
Here is the (mostly) copy-pasted description I wrote then:
In September of 2019 I challenged myself to upload one photo every day to Flickr.
That forced me to browse my then ~90k Lightroom catalog (now 132k+), select, review, and edit shots to find something to post.
And of course it also provided me with an incentive to take my gear out more regularly, even if the pandemic reduced the opportunity to travel, leading to some monotony in the available subjects.
Today marks a streak of 2,003 daily pictures:
www.flickr.com/photos/christiancorsano/albums/72157711201...
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Now for some technical details, equally copy-pasted as I reused the program I wrote two years ago:
This picture is generated by a small throwaway recycled C# program, using Flickr APIs and a handful of dependencies (mainly ImageSharp).
The code starts loading all pages of the album, then proceed to load the size for each photo to get the URL of the "Large Square" 150px x 150px thumbnail and download them to memory.
This can take a few of minutes, especially since I avoid hitting the Flickr API too hard (downloading the photos is fine though, so they are fetched in parallel), so the photo infos and thumbnails are cached to disk to allow quick iterations on the fun part: building the mosaic.
This time I went for 52 columns and 39 rows, which gives 2028 tiles to fill. It does mean that I take 15 random pictures and duplicate them to fill the gaps.
Going for the max resolution (because why not), final mosaic is 7800px x 5850px.
Next step is to prepare the pattern I want to match, here simple "2000" in text, so I generate a small image with the black text, written in 96pt.
It is low resolution, but that's fine as the scaled up version will have a nice blur that we would have to apply anyway.
To fill the pattern I started dumb, got okay results, tried a smarter solution, which made it worse, and went back to the dumb solution to refine it a bit.
The dumb solution was to compute the brightness of each of the photos, do the same with each tile of the text pattern, order the photos and tiles by that value and distribute them.
The smarter solution was to replace the brightness by the computation of a perceptive hash of each image and pattern tile, to be able to get a similarity score for each of them and place the best match on the tiles.
It didn't work well, I suspect because the hashing algorithm work best for very similar picture and here most of the pattern tiles are completely white or black gradient.
So taking some of the more involved sorting and matching and reinstating the brightness approach is what I went for.
Even with that, I am still lacking dark pictures in my set and am cheating a bit, as I do reapply the text as a 0.2 opacity darkening mask on top of the completed mosaic.
I did not touch that code in two years, which is why I did not share it yet. Let me know if you are interested.
A Black And White Version Of An Original Modern Fine Art Abstract Still Life Oil Painting On Canvas Originally in Colour Of A Theme Of Modern Jazz In A Modern Art Setting Painted in A Geometric Style
New edit of a shot from a special location to celebrate my 900th post on Instagram today. I’ve been sharing my photography from the air on the internet for close to 7 years now. And I just want to say thank you for all of the encouragement and for being a part of my journey. I truly appreciate it!
Seen in Cartmel Cumbria. Presumably the distance "over sands" is a the crow flies across treacherous Morecambe Bay.
The only thing that spoilt the scenes in the museum was the setting - the warehouse - so I have uploaded two pics of the same scene here, one with the roof and the other with a photoshopped sky!!
Our 8-month-old Henry slept through the night, in his crib, for the first time ever. We only started "sleep training" six days ago (previously co-sleeping) and I missed his presence at night soo much. So much that I haven't minded getting up at 3am these past six (five) nights to nurse and rock and cuddle him. He's so warm and heavy at those times, and the night is so peaceful and quiet, and it's just us, and I just soak him in and try to forget that he's growing up every day.
So while I'm proud of him for sleeping through the night without needing me, I'm also so very sad.
Image made with my Nikon F100.
Friendship & Vision emanate at Founders Corner...
Life-size bronze sculptures were unveiled earlier today of Mr Alan Bond and Mr Harunori Takahashi, who shared a vision which became reality... that of Bond University.
Alan Bond, 1987:
'The establishment of Bond University will herald innovation. It will be a practical University. Bond University will set new standards in excellence for other institutions to copy and follow.
'It will be bold and pioneering, resourceful and determined. Its graduates will have demonstrated they are hard workers and will be in demand around the world.
'Bond University will always look and plan for the future - a future where Australia is a partner in business ventures and joint developments throughout the global village.
'Bond University is now in place. Vision has become reality. The way is now - ahead.'
Harunori Takahashi, 1987:
'We are able to join with Australia in the project of Bond University with the highest aspirations and motivation to set new standards of achievement.
'Bond University will offer education in a specialised way to Australia and to other countries, enabling its students to take their place in a world of rapid technological change and equip them to Take advantage of technology to reach out and achieve new goals and new horizons.
'We are honoured to be a partner in a venture which marks an historic new milestone in Japanese-Australian friendship and co-operation.'
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Hadn't looked for a while and suddenly.........
Actually this time it's been a bit slow coming mainly because RL has severely limited my activities
Many thanks to all of you who tolerate me
this image is an edited version of the first image i uploaded to flickr a year and a half ago. since then, i have received 25,000 views, commented on over 10,000 other images, had two images featured on the front page of explore, made countless friends and learned quite a bit from the wonderful works of others.
it certainly has been a pleasant diversion. thanks to one and all!
"Milestone"
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This is a book called Golden Milestone "50 years of the Automobile Association" published in 1955 and edited by David Kier and Bryan Morgan.
My father-in-law, Sam, joined the AA after returning from the war fighting in North Africa and Italy and was first issued with a push bike! One of his interview tests was to change a motorcycle tyre without the aid of tools, just his bare hands. He was eventually given the famous motorbike and sidecar and was always ready to salute........
Taken with an old manual Minolta Rokkor 50mm 1.4
Thinking about moving to a little terraced house in Basingstoke! Think I'll pass though, as I love living near the sea!!
Milestone, Canvey Island, Neoplan Starliner K6 TDT in Brighton on 6th August, 2022. It was new to Tours Designed, Mosborough, as PO63 FMY.
Spotted this milestone on the A30, illuminated brilliantly in the afternoon light.
Unlike many, it is not listed, but one two miles away is and these probably date from around 1743. However, some of these on the old turnpike here, were moved about and re-engraved, so we can really only say it is pretty old!
Sunningdale, Berkshire
5th July 2023
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There are plenty of milestones in life some bigger than others. August brought a big one. It was time to pack up my oldest child and help move her to college. It was a change nearly as dramatic as bringing a child home for the first time. Any trepidation we had as parents was tempered by her excitement to begin a new stage of life at Iowa.
After a long weekend of moving in and setting up the dorm room it was time to make the long drive home. Travelling back via one of my favorite places, the Upper Mississippi River Valley, brought comfort and familiarity. The sun was sinking fast but BNSF provided a train at the right time. What I believe to be a unit train of phosphate featured all CSX power and cars. And so this sunset shot holds a lot more meaning for me than the rest. It was not lost on me that the train and myself were in Wisconsin while the sun was setting over the hills of Iowa, where I left a bit of myself that day and likely for the better part of the next four years. August 18, 2024.
My second picture to reach a 1000 comments, I really must join flickr anonymous! I should explain that this a black and white version of the picture that made the milestone
A birthday celebrates surviving another orbit around the sun, or maybe marking one year closer to death, or maybe something a bit more upbeat, lol. At any rate, this marks number 67 for my wife, and my diet prevents me from eating more than a single cupcake :(. For 118 pictures in 2018, #82, "milestone".