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Bluedonkey

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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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Another old photo from the Canon 20D - this one is from 2007, taken at the Monterey Bay Aquarium and is a least sandpiper (according to Apple’s AI).

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I don’t understand Apple Maps favourite suggestions.

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@schwa They’re nonsense. I have a place I have visited exactly once for a graduation ceremony, and the state of Wyoming, where I have never been (nor do I recall ever searching for).

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    @schwa That sounds amazing. Though I might just stay there for the three weeks off part too after a while.

    Bluedonkey, to photography
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    Another shot from Kailua Beach of the common myna bird. This one was walking over the sand, but with high steps that make it look like it if stomping along.

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    @schwa Yup, and it has real issues getting to the latest while it is downloading all the history.

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    @schwa Even more annoying is the way one particular service decides that if somebody on the call shares their screen, that automatically needs to be rendered full screen for everybody. No matter what I was doing. That should be up to me.

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    @schwa I rarely have to use that one - only when customers insist they can't use anything better, so I just live with it.

    It always insists on updating when I try to join a call too because I use it that infrequently (have to remember to join 5 minutes before so I'm not late because of it).

    As you can tell, I'm not a big fan...

    Bluedonkey, to photography
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    Another shot of the red-crested cardinal bathing in a puddle.

    Bluedonkey, to photography
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    More white leadtree photos, these taken with the and my old EF 28-135 f3.5-5.6 lens. This was my favorite walk-about lens on the , and with the EF to RF adapter works perfectly on the R7 as well.

    A white leadtree flower framed top and bottom by green foliage from the tree. To the right are buds of a future flower. The flower itself is more like a ball with white spikes (the petals) stuck into it like pins in a pincushion.

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    Chickens are wandering around all over the island. Even in Honolulu and Waikiki. This one was in the parking lot area at Sunset Beach on the north shore.

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    No wonder the world's going electric.😂

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    @KiwiEV @pixel There is a new company keeps trying to raise money here building a new variation of it (which they claim fixes it!). Can’t believe anybody would be stupid enough to invest in a new internal combustion engine company at this point. They have a cool animation showing these things in operation.

    https://www.liquidpiston.com/how-it-works

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    This little guy just seemed to be enjoying the attention of the camera. He posed in so many different ways for the camera, but showed no sign of being afraid.

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    Another shot taken while I was hoping to find birds yesterday.

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    @schwa I did a library pickup run (zero traffic, no issue parking) and then washed both our cars. Seemed like a better way to spend a Sunday afternoon…

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    Funny how the anti-EV crowd never mention the impact of spills, pipeline leaks and drilling for oil, yet will scream about lithium mining and coal burning power plants (the number of which is dropping fast because they’re not economic).

    Don’t see reports of wind farms failing and polluting miles of coastline & beaches. Yet oil spills happen regularly & put wildlife and the communities near the spill/leak at risk.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68266339

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    @schwa Did something similar in Alaska once... it was well worth it.

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    @schwa Pretty sure if photographers tried that here they’d just lose the tripod. 😖

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    Dropped my son’s team supplies off for his team practice and saw this lone daisy in the fresh, green grass. With a nice blue sky in the background, I thought this low angle would work.

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    @schwa Never say never...

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    Hit a roadblock with the task I was doing for work (and need somebody who has likely finished work for the day to fix it), so clearly time for a Hazel photo.

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    I like cats.

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    @schwa @ivory I've seen this too. Had to split the post into 4 separate posts with a single image on each one. Almost certainly a server-side issue, but the lack of feedback is confusing.

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    Posing for photos apparently wasn’t what she was after! That look says it all.

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    Never ending rain. At least, it feels that way.

    Rain drops falling on the stone patio in our back yard. Continuously thanks to looping video.

    Bluedonkey, to photography
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    Wanted to test the R7, but it was raining so all I could manage to shoot (other than the dog) were these flowers at our front door.

    A small white petal flower with red centers against a green leafy background.

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    @schwa Hah, I can believe it. You should see how bad Porsche software is compared to all their engineering in drive trains and suspension! That said, the camera companies have had longer to come the realization about how important software is.

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