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A Scottish nature lover, large format (analogue) photographer, (bike-walking)cyclist, (hill)runner. A guy who cuts his urban lawn with a scythe.
#BelieveInFilm #LargeFormat #Darkroom #HillRunning #Cycling #RoughStuffFellowship
(I am older than I look; the fifteen year old avatar helps.)

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tf, to random
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LOL, looks like gmail has started rejecting emails from outlook.com with useless 500 errors. This is truly poetic, because Microsoft has done the same to small mail server operators for very long time, with no recourse for resolving it. I had eventually given up running my own mail servers after many years because of that.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/03/outlookcom_blocked_by_gmail/

tf,
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@tmcfarlane I am pretty sure this is not greylisting, that generates 'temporarily unavailable' type errors. These are hard 5xx errors based on some Google metrics of sender reputation.

tf, to darkroom
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The Rock and the Hard Place. 16” x 12” silver gelatine print.

One of the photographs from the ‘For the Love of Trees’ ebook (https://tf.photography/ebooks/)

ronanmcd, to random
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This water tank has seen some shit

tf,
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@ronanmcd is it in England? Seems shit in water is the norm there.

ronanmcd, to random
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"Time to juice up" Apple's notification about my trackpad battery being a bit low sounds like a wannabe teen talking to cool kids about their hotrods

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@ronanmcd oh? mine just said 'battery (very) low’

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@ronanmcd I am on sonoma, perhaps that's the Irish localisation? :-) (Or perhaps it's because mine is battery powered.)

ronanmcd, to random
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Oh great.
I'm old enough that I ought to be looking for a Land Rover.

tf,
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@ronanmcd you should be happy about that, it is credit to your green credentials, otherwise you would be seeing an add for an oversized US truck.

HighlandHen, to random
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Yet another 'benefit' of the NC500 for locals. As our local forest that was usually extremely quiet is now a brief stop for people heading along the NC500 and an influx of mtb-ers, the Forestry and Land folks have decided it's a money spinner.

Local people now need to pay £2 per hour to park or pay £40 up front per year to visit our local forest.

These benefits (traffic, rubbish, costs of food, parking) just keep coming.

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@HighlandHen shh, the tourists might get offended. (Long time ago I made a reference to campervans ‘loaded with stacks of Heinz beans from supermarkets down south’, and got a very irate email from some lady in south of England along the lines of ‘your government invited us here’. I had to politely explain I was referring to the Central Belt.) I have dreamt of moving to the NW for many years, but I honestly can’t imagine living anywhere near the NC500 anymore.

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@HighlandHen I just see it from the regular visitor point of view, and that’s enough. For years I wanted to do a big summer cycle tour of the NW, but after taking the bike up there for a two week holiday I lost the appetite, it’s awful on bike. This is the rant I was chastised for, I think it aged pretty well, https://aye.tf/2019/06/14/north-coast-500-an-alternative-view/

tf, to BelieveInFilm
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A Morning in a Quarry

The light caught my eye on the way back to the car that day, to the bemusement of kids bouldering near by. Rather looking forward to printing this one, should be fun.

100 (4x5) in , 210mm, f22 @ 1/4s

tf, to random
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The moment you realise that in multiple computer migrations you lost the source code to a tool you wrote years ago, which you were sure you pushed to git server, so never bothered to backup up anywhere else. But the particular server is long gone. Oh well.

ronanmcd, to AdobePhotoshop
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Well done - even your notes are poorly considered or just lazy. If you are going to list shortcuts in sequence, then you need to list what they are in that same sequence.

tf,
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@ronanmcd but what if U is not for underline?!

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@ronanmcd fear not, AI to the rescue (hell reimagined)

kim_harding, to random
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Building the Future: How Mycelium is Redefining Sustainable Construction https://ugreen.io/building-the-future-how-mycelium-is-redefining-sustainable-construction/

This is fascinating but odd, I am not at all sure that the carbon sequestration claims add up...

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@kim_harding very interesting, but yes, nothing organic is carbon negative over its complete lifecycle. The fact it is grown from organic waste gives it possible edge over timber, though the strict environmental controls might negate that, and it raises the question whether reducing the agro waste in the first place would not be more productive purely in CO2 terms. But any technology that moves us away from concrete toward organically produced materials is well worth exploring I think.

tf, to BelieveInFilm
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I put together a (free) ebook: ‘For the Love of Trees' is a collection of 70 B&W photographs of Scottish trees and treescapes, https://tf.photography/ebooks/

CarolineLucas, to random
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Timely
https://nitter.cz/NatInfraCom
report shows UK energy infrastructure is desperately underfunded. Clean electric heat could provide warm homes, slash emissions, lower bills, ensure energy security & save people £1,000 a year in the process - what's Sunak afraid of?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/oct/18/uk-infrastructure-needs-much-more-investment-say-government-advisers

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1714672089016246380#m

[2023-10-18 15:57 UTC]

tf,
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@CarolineLucas @simon_brooke forcing heat pumps on low income families while electricity costs 4x more than gas will exacerbate fuel poverty.

tf,
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@DavidPenington the recent Oxford study shows that typical heat pump efficiency in temperatures below 5C is ~2.7. Modern gas boilers are over 90% efficient — electricity would need to be no more than 2x more expensive not to lead to more fuel poverty in the UK. @simon_brooke Yes, electricity prices are artificially high, but current policies for the green transition are invariably made by the well off for the well off at the expense of those who can least afford it. It really needs to change.

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Yet again floored by my lack of plant knowledge and attention so far in life. Just went on a walk and for the first time noticed how many red berries there are at this time of year (and wouldn’t be able to say whether this is “normal”, but assume it is). Thinking again about Kimmerer’s term .

Here some pictures of a few (looked up on plant net): Stinking Iris (Iris foetidissima), Holly (Ilex) and Dog Rose (Rosa dumalis).

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@pvonhellermannn back in the old Czechoslovakia of my childhood each year we had to take part in rose hip picking competition. The keen kids would get a whole family involved, you would have to produce 20-30kg to have a chance to win in our school. This was happening country wide, for the pharma industry. You can dry them and make tea from them in the winter, I never liked it, but my granny swore by it.

amy, to BelieveInFilm
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mamiya rb67 or bronica qs-1? and why?

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@amy I have a GS-1, I guess the main advantage is no bellows. It’s a decent quite modern camera with decent lenses. But I find 6x7 very unwieldy, it’s a big step up even from even 6x6, the focal lengths are long enough to want to have type movements, and it’s hard to hand shoot.

seldo, to random
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There are ads in the start bar in Windows 11, in an operating system I paid for. Whose joke of enshittification is this?

tf,
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@seldo @hbons but I am sure the ads are carefully curated to your shopping habits and other needs. OS is such a mine of useful information, why let it go to waste? Surely, you can see that. :)

simon_brooke, to random
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My wood is full of goldcrests this morning, but they're extremely hard to photograph. So small, so shy, so fast. I'm just enjoying watching them.

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@Alternatecelt @simon_brooke at times like that I have to remind myself of the bard’s ‘I need no reel to reel to ken I was there’. They are lovely, they come in the winter for the dock and the lovage, I leave the dock alone just because of them. They also come earlier in the year for dandelions.

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    tf,
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    @ScotHomestead @NatureMC @Christownsendoutdoors we haven’t had frost yet, normally from late September. All the starlings in the neighbourhood are getting ready to nest, and now it looks like the bluetits are too. Daisies, campion and poppies are still flowering, I am pretty sure I saw bees around if not last week, then the week before.

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    @Christownsendoutdoors @ScotHomestead @NatureMC spoke too soon, hard frost this morning!

    skinnylatte, to BelieveInFilm
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    I think a part of why film photography is so big in San Francisco and Oakland is, if some of us look at computers for one minute more our brains might combust (since we spend our lives working with computers)

    The more advanced I get in my career, the less I want to look at a computer in my free time. Recently found myself in the darkness of a darkroom, smell of chemicals, not even any red safe lights (coz color!) and thinking, whee, away at last

    tf,
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    @skinnylatte this is definitely part of the appeal for me, not all of it, but a large part

    mattblaze, to random
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    Why could Ansel Adams make such great, enduring photos? Four main reasons:

    • He had a great eye for subject and composition

    • He knew his subjects - the American landscape, etc - exceptionally well.

    • He was an absolute master of technique, some of which he invented and developed himself.

    • He was willing to schlep an enormous amount of delicate, heavy, expensive gear long distances to the middle of nowhere. Seriously.

    tf,
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    @mattblaze well, the fact remains that the camera in the picture you posted is capable of producing images that are at least as sharp and enlargerable as those from your PhaseOne. Make of it what you will.

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