#rolleiflex,#1988,#photo,#photography, #black&white, photo is mine, Autrans Vercors France january 1988

Anchorage School District Remote Learning Day Tuesday 10/29 except for Girdwood K-8

Just want to say, before it all gets lost in the election clamor: some of the most wonderful people I'm aware of on this Earth hail from Puerto Rico.

If the silver lining to the whole business is that it moves the needle a little more in Kamala's direction, great. But they shouldn't have to hear such a hurtful lie about their home vomited out as a joke for that to happen, and I am so goddamn sorry it was.

You don't have to be ashamed of using your own ideas

#ObliqueStrategies

DZ: US politics

While fishing around for hope, I checked the Federal Elections Commission results for 2016, and Clinton beat Trump in the popular vote by nearly 2.9 million votes.

The electoral college still matters, but surely more people like Harris than liked Clinton, yeah? 🤞

When I was a teenager in the 2000s I somehow got the opportunity to interview the drummer from Minor Threat for a hardcore zine.

I asked him for his advice for young musicians. He said “you’re not going to listen to this advice because you don’t think it’s cool, and one day you’ll regret it, but always wear earplugs.”

I didn’t listen.

Didn’t think it was cool.

Permanent ear damage by my mid 20s.

Unplug and join me for a photo adventure off the beaten track on Vancouver Island, British Columbia! I offer photo tours and workshops all year long, in English and French, to amateur and professional photographers, in groups or in private. For details, visit: https://www.catherinebabault.com/workshops

#VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia #Canada #PhotoTours #ExploreCanada #ExploreBC #photography #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography

So I was trying to watch #TheThing the other night, and my cat got fascinated by the dog running through the snow in the opening sequence lol

#JohnCarpentersTheThing
#CatsOfMastodon #HorrorFam
#Film #Cinema #Cinemastodon

🎃 #Halloween Week 01 - Creepy #AbandonedHospital

💉Kill or cure; these decaying medical facilities lay redundant and surplus to requirement. Asylums, their evocative long corridors with peeling paint and smashed windows. Almost pristine hospitals, with the power still on and beds still made. Silent operating theatres and empty wards.

📷 Explore these #abandoned hospitals - https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/portfolio/abandoned-places/unsanitary-clinical/

#AbandonedPlaces #LostPlace #LostPlaces #Portfolio #History #Macabre #Spooky #Haunted

One of things I hate most is when men are talking about violence against women and they talk about it happening to “our wives, our sisters, our daughters.” I’m sure your intentions are good but you are still framing us by the relationship we have to a man. Guess what, we’re whole people in our own right. We don’t exist purely as we are related to men. What about the women who are not your wives, sisters, daughters and mothers? Do we still matter? Maybe just stop the violence because it’s wrong to do that to anyone and it’s women who are disproportionately impacted 🤷‍♀️ #ViolenceAgainstWomen

I did a shitload of cycling, hiking, swimming, and gym stuff this weekend, so I think I earned the potatoes that I'm about to burn my mouth on.

As if I didn't overwhelm you with too many photos already, here's another.

#patriarchy #feminism #NotAllMen?

Day 27: Road #Inktober

I thought NYC deserved a weirder (complimentary) "I VOTED" sticker, so here ya go, heroes!

#EarlyVotingHero

Vote early, beat Trump! Let's do this! https://gregpak.net/2024/10/15/vote-early-to-beat-trump-it-makes-a-huge-difference/

Painterly season.

Minolta SRT-101
Rokkor 58mm F1.4
Santa RAE 1000
HC-110
#believeinfilm #photography

@ilja @fristi
> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Computer Networks, 3rd ed., p. 83.

This is a very short session with Pickering's Triangle. I was trying for 3 1/2 to 4 hours but ended up with only 2. Pickering's is part of the Veil Nebula, also known as the Cygnus Loop. It's between the Eastern and Western Veil.
#space #astronomy #astrodon

Fascinating article about the as yet unpredictable changes AI brings to complex knowledge work. Here the case of radiology. The early predictions of displacement of humans by machines have not come to pass (though, as always, they have simply been pushed into the future).

For me, this is the most interesting part, and one that I think applies quite generally.

"Still, I have reservations about AI in radiology, particularly when it comes to education. One of the main promises of AI is that it will handle the “easy” scans, freeing radiologists to concentrate on the “harder” stuff. I bristle at this forecast, since the “easy” cases are only so after we read thousands of them during our training—and for me they’re still not so easy! The only reason my mentors are able to interpret more advanced imaging is that they have an immense grounding in these fundamentals."

If you automate the easy stuff, it's much harder to gain experience necessary to do the harder stuff, This applies to any craft and all creative/knowledge work as an important element of craft to it.

https://newrepublic.com/article/187203/ai-radiology-geoffrey-hinton-nobel-prediction

24.10.26 Midtown Anchorage @ 8:45 am 19° and very very clear and still, the sky behind the mountains looking almost pale green in the first light #MyAlaskaWx

Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms. The type that formed the backbone of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in California before the war. Subject of Carleton Parker's "Studies on IWW"

#NapaValley #California #CarletonParkers

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017771195/

I always try to sleep in because I don’t want anything to do with getting that worm.

This was a fairly dark negative and it took a bunch of tries to get a decent print.
I probably also need to adjust my feelings for exposure times to reflect the season.
Also, I've been spending more time working actually at my work lately, which interferes with getting optimal sunlight conditions :)
This is a streetcar from Atlantic City, NJ. But looks like a #PCC but it's actually a "Brilliner". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliner
#Cyanotype #bnw #blackandwhite #filmisnotdead #foundnegative #trolley #tram

Oh, someone built Google's Quick Share for Linux and MacOS

https://github.com/Martichou/rquickshare

Happy Friday, Western Hemisphere!

Camera
Inktober 2024

What happened to this army who left so much behind?

#art
#ink
#inktober
#inktober2024
#Inktober2024Camera

Some autumn colours to cheer up a foggy morning.
#Northumberland #FujifilmX #Autumn

Near Manteca, California. Formerly rehabilitation client harvesting milo maize. Now operating own farm under Tenant Purchase Act. A year and a half ahead on their payments. Average loan for purchase of farm and improvements in San Joaquin County is seven thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars

#Manteca #California #TenantPurchaseAct #SanJoaquinCounty

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017771163/

DZ: US politics

@kimberlyadams scared the crap out of me yesterday. Getting caught up on my podcasts, caught her connecting dots:

• Trump says the only way he can lose is if the Dems cheat.
• The election will likely be too close to call on election night.
• All Trump has to do is to declare victory on election night, and either he wins or he reaps the chaos he has already sown.