Looks like someone in Sweden got up & thought it's a good day to fire up an Azure instance for AI training, using the well-known "Firefox/72" scraper. Well, not with my photos.
It's still going on, but the amount of requests would already equal ~2 GB in volume. One scraper. In less than 24h.
This is the reality when you have a website with visual content. Isn't AI great?
Low clouds hang over the southern slopes of the Laguna Mountains as monsoonal moisture makes its way through the Southern California desert in September 2016. The solitary tree is a Pinyon Pine.
A friend from Germany sent me a message with a photo today: "Your card with New Year's greetings has arrived!" — I thought that was rather late... but upon closer inspection, it turns out that it was even later! 🤪
...1.5 years from California to Bavaria — good job, USPS and/or Deutsche Post. 😂
The Hooded Orioles have returned — I heard their loud chatter in the neighborhood this morning. Here's a photo of a male (seems like he's aware of his good looks, isn't he?😅)
Sun in clouds and haze over the San Ysidro Mountains, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; March 2024.
(blend of four exposures at ISO 64, f/16 — 1/32000s for the disc of the sun, 1/8000s for the areas around the sun, 1/400s for the edge of clouds/mountains, 1/200s for the darker parts of the mountains)