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This is a milestone of my Flickr journey. I reached at 200th submission of an endless journey. In each journey of life we start to look at the milestone after certain time either to know how far to go or how far we came! This one is to remind me how much I have accomplished so far and also signifying that much more to go to reach the top.
Photograph was taken on the way to Leh on Manali to Leh Highway.
This one was my 200th submission in NGYS too. But due to technical reason this one not acceptable in "NGYS alumni" Group!
Thank you all who supported my journey.
Our town doesn't have any old signs. Not a one. El Dorado Hills is a relatively new town compared to the surrounding towns from the Gold Rush days. The original master plan for El Dorado Hills was designed by Victor Gruen in the early 1960's.
This sign in our Town Center caught me eye, though. Maybe because a milestone is usually a marker of a good thing. A measure of accomplishment, a place to remind you of the promises you made to yourself to do your best in something and to appreciate the special friendships you made along the way. It's both an ending and a beginning...
Time Flies...
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“Family Gathering by the Andaman Sea”
Sometimes you don’t need details, pixel perfection, or an HDR overkill. Sometimes a bit of backlight is enough – and suddenly they appear: Thailand’s most photogenic patchwork family of limestone giants, standing together in peaceful silhouette. No quarrels, no inheritance disputes – just quietly standing and keeping their secrets in the evening light.
„Familienaufstellung am Andamanensee“
Manchmal braucht es keine Details, keine Pixel-Perfektion, keinen HDR-Overkill. Manchmal reicht ein bisschen Gegenlicht – und plötzlich stehen sie da: Thailands wohl fotogenste Patchwork-Familie aus Kalkstein, vereint in trauter Silhouette. Keine Zankerei, kein Streit um Erbfolgen – nur friedliches Stehen und Schweigen im Abendlicht.
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I wanna thank all my followers for helping me reach this tiny milestone without ya im just a guy taking screen shots lol to another 200 cheers!. -Romeo Los Santos
Super Excited for 1K followers....Thank you to everyone who has followed and continues to follow me...I am greatly humbled by your continued support. ♥
It is no secret to those who know me, that I detested London when I was a youngster. It was tense, noisy, threatening, dirty and unwelcoming.
These days, it seems unrecognisable from the 1980s and early 90s. Whilst I cannot envisage ever wanting to live here, I thoroughly enjoy my visits back. I particularly enjoy looking for the many things I would have overlooked or ignored as a youngster. This milestone is just such a thing.
An 18th century (I would guess) milestone in Markyate, Hertfordshire. Its location is now the A5183, a fast road built in the 1950s. I am not sure, therefore, whether or not this stone is set in its original position. However, the new road follows the old road, Watling Street (the one the Romans had built). It is clear that the milestone must at least be near to its original position. Mitakon Speedmaster at F0.95.
(86/365) The candle signifies the first anniversary of my last birthday. I was allowed to eat half of the cupcake :(. At least the preceding dinner was good.
Twenty five minutes and a mile from where I was previously., the lighthouse looks so diminutive in the glow of the morning. Ominous rain clouds continue to move in but still dry.
It's been a while and I definitely had some fun with this one!
Full blog post and tons of pictures can be read and viewed
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Old milestone, taken for 'Saturday Self Challenge': "Units of Measure". Miles to London, Basingstoke and Hartford Bridge.
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Twenty five minutes and a mile from where I was previously., the lighthouse looks so diminutive in the glow of the morning. Ominous rain clouds continue to move in but still dry.
A very old road sign at the junction of Beckenham High Street and Bromley Road in SE London giving distances to London and local destinations - a third side also gives the distance to the Swan public house at Wickham. This was the New Cross turnpike road of 1718. Turnpikes were toll roads set up to address the urgent need for better roads from the early 18th century. From 1767, mileposts were compulsory on all turnpikes, to inform travellers of direction and distances and to help coaches keep to schedule.
A milestone birthday party in the house today and probably the first time in 21 years that I didn’t make the birthday cake. I took some pressure off and outsourced this year, it was delicious and stress free.
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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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.
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!