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Bluedonkey

@Bluedonkey@mastodon.social

British ex-pat living the island life in the #SanFrancisco Bay Area. #Alameda.

Architect of #Cloud / #embedded / #IoT systems. Working on #AI #GunDetection.

Like #ElectricVehicles, #CleanEnergy, #Photography, #3dPrinting, #Electronics and #Travel.

All opinions mine.

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Bluedonkey, to photography
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It regularly destroys my bird feeder, or knocks it to the ground, but when I go out to admonish it, the thing just comes up to me looking for peanuts. Hard to remain angry with something this cute, especially when it’s likely just hungry too.

#photography #squirrel #naturephotography #wildlifephotography

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Started adding some of my photos to https://pixels.com/profiles/23-john-gordon - but so far very little traffic looking at the photos.

Will try to get most of the ones I post here uploaded there too. So far, the most interest in the few there has been for the duck silhouette I posted a few days ago.

schwa, to random
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Almost taken out by a cyclist on the bay trail who seemed unable to get over to make room for a person walking a dog...

I am noticing a correlation between square meters of lycra and inability to act like a decent human being on a shared bike/walk trail.

Assumes the blood flow is getting cut off to the brain?

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@schwa Was the same in SF when I was walking from the ferry to the office. Could always tell which ones were going to ignore the red light and blast through the crossing despite the pedestrians trying to cross the street. Honestly, I had more close calls with cyclists in SF than with cars.

schwa, to random
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Working (who am i kidding, playing) with a film camera again has made me really appreciate just how OP modern digital cameras are.

I literally cannot do things with this film camera that I take for granted on my Zf. Need to shoot wide open, in super bright sunlight? Not a problem.

Oh wait I only have 400 film and the fastest shutter is 1/2000… Nevermind…

(Auto-)ISO anywhere between 50-204800 is just nuts in comparison (and a shutter speed of 8000…)

Bluedonkey,
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@schwa Just having ISO be something you can change between shots, or leave the camera to just dynamically select is amazing when you compare it to film. And I don't recall ever using anything higher than ISO 800 in film, and even that was rare. 100 and 400 were much more common.

Apparently, the Instax film camera my daughter has uses ISO 800 film (have to be careful with it at airports), and that surprised me (though given the use case ISO 800 makes sense).

schwa, to random
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Beginning to drown in empty 35mm film containers.

This is such a nostalgic childhood memory. The amount of these things I had as a child containing the random cruft kids collect.

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@schwa I’ve been wondering about getting lenses from Japan. Often a lot cheaper than from US sellers. Interested to hear if you get any issues with getting it here.

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