Bob Tregilus has moved...

My apple tree has gone absolutely nuts with flowers! It only blooms every other year. Weird tree, but when it goes off it doesn't hold back!
#Gardening #Tree #Flowers #BloomScrolling
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2025-04-12 19:16:02 UTC

Caturday-shmaturday, it's Bob-caturday!
Lynx rufus (bobcat) at the Animal Ark north of Reno, Nevada (2016).
#Caturday #Cats #Wildlife #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/326/577/835/210/515/original/f00fd9e980fbce16.jpg

2025-04-10 04:59:34 UTC

Vulpes vulpes (red fox). This is Lisa. She use to live at the Animal Ark north of Reno, Nevada. The Animal Ark is an ethical animal rescue facility. They don't breed animals for sale to zoos. They are entirely funded by grants and donations.
#Wildlife #Animals #Fox #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/311/889/956/150/933/original/1f7718f0df83c7e5.jpg

2025-04-09 20:52:07 UTC

So I tuned into NPR for the first time since the election (six months). o_0 That lasted about 15 minutes before they aired audio clips from the orange psychopath felon rapist. Trumpy pants radio is alive and well over at NPR. I wish there was a news outlet that reported the news rather than provide a platform for the president to lie to the public.

2025-04-05 06:19:35 UTC

Calochortus Aureus (Golden Mariposa Lily).
#BloomScrolling #WildFlowers #Flowers #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/283/888/691/703/574/original/6528eca5c7c9b7d6.jpg

2025-04-04 23:34:45 UTC

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I'd be interested to see how fans rank Star Trek, the first five series. I'll go first. (It's hard, actually...)
(1) TOS
(2) ENT
(3) TNG (last 3 seasons sans-Wesley)
(4) VOY (last 4 seasons sans-Kes)
(5) DS9 (Garak is probably my favorite ST character & Jeffrey Combs is a favorite ST actor.)
@npub1s5m…9azw @npub1uuv…92h8 @npub17zn…z5e5 #AllStarTrek

2025-04-01 16:46:31 UTC

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I'm so sorry to hear that. I hope you find another job soon!

2025-03-31 08:21:01 UTC

Rear window.
#Abandoned #Landscape #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/256/053/608/885/589/original/5bce0a8a50fbf958.jpg

2025-03-29 21:14:02 UTC

From my "The Road Last Traveled" series.
#Roadtrip #BlackAndWhite #Desert #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/247/765/167/043/537/original/171bf9fec96a0e93.jpg

2025-03-27 20:59:32 UTC

Welp, it is not a pink elephant, but a blue elephant in a pink turban and, apparently, with two arms.
#StreetArt #StreetPhotography #Mural #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/236/372/250/545/539/original/28d94e199e952809.jpg

2025-03-25 04:12:22 UTC

Where's my train?
#StreetPhotography #color #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/221/065/211/281/453/original/4b27514f8de2983a.jpg

2025-03-24 04:44:26 UTC

From my one and only trip out East. This is from a foggy fall morning at Camden Harbor, Maine.
#Maine #Dew #Fog #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/215/560/781/618/473/original/65c9dac6ba94444b.jpg

2025-03-23 18:09:22 UTC

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Wind sure, but solar belongs on roof tops and over parking lots. It should also be locally owned. Converting golf courses to community gardens would be a better use of the urban land, I think. Utility scale solar should be banned.

2025-03-23 08:12:02 UTC

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Very nice!

2025-03-23 00:13:23 UTC

One of my colleagues at the art supply / frame shop I work at, her boyfriend is Haida (an indigenous person of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America). I love Haida & Tlingit art! So before I retire next week I paid him for a print of this Orca. Today I printed it out & framed it. I'm very happy with how it turned out! Of note, he (Alex) is a very talented painter. I saw the original & his brush technique is spectacularly smooth, like it was printed.(Phone photo.)
#Art #Orca #PNW #FineArt
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/208/812/610/615/514/original/cc5cb0f6f35a5fea.jpg

2025-03-21 10:03:08 UTC

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Gadzooks, I wonder what all is in that barn? Old barn stuff is often the best! But, whatever the case, you can't hold a barn sale? Then people pay you to haul your stuff away. :) And if you're in the SW US, do beware of hantavirus. :/

2025-03-20 06:01:57 UTC

Eight arches.
#Architecture #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/193/208/228/220/585/original/ab9d8b5373ac89d6.jpg

2025-03-20 02:50:44 UTC

"[Today] the ESA’s Euclid mission released..survey data..hundreds of thousands of galaxies in different shapes & sizes take centre stage & show a glimpse of their large-scale organisation in the cosmic web.
"Covering a huge area of the sky in three mosaics, the data release also includes numerous galaxy clusters, active galactic nuclei & transient phenomena, as well as the first classification survey of more than 380 000 galaxies & 500 gravitational lens candidates..."
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Euclid_opens_data_treasure_trove_offers_glimpse_of_deep_fields

2025-03-18 09:26:13 UTC

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Good grief, lol!

2025-03-18 02:49:00 UTC

Desert sentinels.
#Desert #Geology #Wildflowers #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Landscape #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/181/122/315/737/138/original/f234984742abccc9.jpg

2025-03-17 06:46:37 UTC

Custom Art Framing, a 🧵
Since I'm fully retiring from my semi-retired part-time job (2 - 6hr days/wk) at the end of the month I thought I'd frame several items for myself while I can still get an employee discount.
I invite you to join me for the ride!
This is the chop room where we chop the molding legs to size. I'm chopping in-stock molding. Black looks best with B&W photos & is also inexpensive. 1/12
#Art #Framing #ArtWork #Printing #Print #FineArt #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/176/420/411/347/964/original/ac687502a8a06599.jpg

2025-03-15 08:20:08 UTC

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It appears to be in great shape. What is going to become of it? Going into an auction?

2025-03-15 02:39:59 UTC

Ever get that feeling that you're being watched?
#StreetArt #StreetPhotography #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/164/115/680/032/872/original/b545be157b30fd9b.jpg

2025-03-14 06:14:06 UTC

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Shot number three.
Totality--Blood Moon--begins at 11:26pm PDT (07:26 UTC). 3/n
#Moon #Eclipse #LunarEclipse #AstroPhotography #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/159/308/168/813/493/original/ff862c31c0e7412f.jpg

2025-03-14 05:45:28 UTC

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Here's another one. Totality--Blood Moon--begins at 11:26pm PDT (07:26 UTC). 2/n
#Moon #Eclipse #AstroPhotography #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/159/194/390/310/115/original/48e786b32b376399.jpg

2025-03-14 05:22:52 UTC

The lunar eclipse has begun! Totality starts at 11:26pm PDT (07:26 UTC). 1/n
#Moon #Eclipse #AstroPhotography #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/159/101/335/023/068/original/6650c97e28a01150.jpg

2025-03-13 22:02:38 UTC

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Nice photo! But Glen Canyon, by all accounts, was a paradise, Lake Powell, not so much.

2025-03-13 04:13:43 UTC

A year ago, it was a gloriously steamy day in the otherwise very dry high desert of Ely, Nevada. A good rain storm really makes a difference!
#Trains #Railway #Steam #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/153/150/837/414/535/original/8e739afb9d33e7f9.jpg

2025-03-12 11:30:14 UTC

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Wow, that's quite the bench! Nice shot!

2025-03-12 07:56:50 UTC

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Very nice!

2025-03-12 05:41:02 UTC

Nevada Northern Railway, Ely, Nevada (4/26/2025). These old engines were used to haul copper ore from the Ruth Mine on the west side of Ely to smelters in McGill, northeast of Ely. The trains, railway, & machine shop are fully operational & appear to the visitor as frozen in time from the early 20th century. I stop there every time I pass through town. Visitors can ride trains & be the engineer, but I prefer to roam around the yard & machine shop.
#Trains #Steam #Railway #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/147/791/482/413/362/original/07f8c2e7b332b166.jpg

2025-03-10 07:49:03 UTC

I love this old gas station. It makes me dream of the day when all gas stations look like this!
(I also like it because I have often romanticized about owning that cliche gas station on a lonely desert road in the middle of nowhere. You've seen it in the movies, the gas station with the old guy in a rocking chair, the '50s style Coke machine, and the big dog you have to step over to go inside.)
#Abandoned #Desert #Ruin #BlackAndWhite #Cars #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/136/635/946/752/143/original/a0a3bd2db5131824.jpg

2025-03-09 18:24:48 UTC

What it may have looked like some long forgotten autumn evening 800 years ago.
(Note: I carefully placed glow sticks in the windows so as to not disturb the ruin. No fire was used for the effect.)
#AstroPhotography #Canyon #Desert #Archaeology #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/133/820/467/158/076/original/eacfb5f5fdf7e4d4.jpg

2025-03-08 22:12:42 UTC

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Hypatia's father, Theon, is the last known member of the library. Following in the footsteps of her father, Hypatia, a pagan, spent her life educating & in scholarly pursuits. Political & religious conflict dominated the period. One day in March 415, Hypatia was dragged from her carriage, the skin was flailed from her body, her remains were dragged through the streets & burned by Christians.
In 1500 years we haven't changed much. 3/3
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hypatia-ancient-alexandrias-great-female-scholar-10942888/

2025-03-08 22:11:28 UTC

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...Hypatia (c.350–370 - 415CE) of Alexandria, Egypt. Around the time of her birth, the great Library of Alexandria was burned to the ground by Christians & a church built on the site. 2/3

2025-03-08 22:10:49 UTC

On International Women's Day I always think about the millions of women struggling to survive, raise their children, & deal with domestic violence--still--at the end of the first quarter of the 21st Century.
It's a sad reflection: Sad that I have no power to help; sad that those who do have the power to change things are greed addicted sociopaths.
And then my thoughts turn to the educator, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, & philosopher... 1/3
#IWD2025

2025-03-08 08:30:03 UTC

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And this is the really cool feature that is on the island knob seen in the last photo! 2/2
#Canyon #Desert #Geology #Archaeology #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/125/850/227/903/540/original/487b034b9cf8c43c.jpg

2025-03-08 07:56:04 UTC

A really cool, what I refer to as a "canyon fin." And there's a really cool feature way out on that island knob at the end. But you have to walk out there to see it. :) 1/2
#Canyon #Desert #Geology #Rock #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/125/707/841/914/790/original/e8aac160ab5bbbe0.jpg

2025-03-07 22:56:20 UTC

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Oh, interesting. I forget the name of the flower, it is a big ball of tiny flowers, but whenever I had a bunch of iron (steel) chips from turning metal on my lathe, I would toss the chips on the soil under that plant and the big pink / white balls would turn a bright blue!

2025-03-07 22:49:07 UTC

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Yes, it seems any bell shaped blue flower gets that name. Here's the Phacelia campanularia (desert bluebell) that I like to grow.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/123/575/043/360/889/original/75f53ffbe4d39677.jpg

2025-03-07 22:37:12 UTC

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It's a beautiful blue! Reminds me of the desert blue bells I like to grow in my yard.

2025-03-07 21:36:38 UTC

I love this so much! I had planned to go to the shop tomorrow to print & frame a couple of photos for myself & I think I might take this receipt along & frame it as well!
(Rats, can't post a photo with a poll so I'll fudge it.)
Bob wants to frame the receipt because:
(a) he is really really weird.
(b) what he bought is really important to him.
(c) it is a paper receipt that reminds him of the days before computers, when people could write in cursive, & when cashiers could count back change.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/123/193/823/449/043/original/dfa396b35db6b97f.jpg

2025-03-06 01:34:45 UTC

More Pueblo III ruins. Likely around 1200 CE.
#Archeology #Ruins #Abandoned #Canyon #Desert #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/112/887/083/847/094/original/86b3243baef80c86.jpg

2025-03-03 02:49:16 UTC

Wow, nice! I read that an animated film titled "Flow," about "a cat, dog, capybara, secretarybird, & ring-tailed lemur, in a...post-human world, trying to survive as the water level dramatically rises around them," just won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The film holds a 97% fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes. The animation was done using the free & open-source software @npub1k5u…hg3t. And the film's creators publicly thanked the Blender project at tonight's Academy Awards--go FOSS!

2025-03-03 00:46:30 UTC

#SilentSunday
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/095/724/334/960/317/original/b92bcb025b264937.jpg

2025-02-28 08:05:19 UTC

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Very nice!

2025-02-27 20:03:21 UTC

Lily Lake, California (7/2/2020).
#Lake #Fishing #Sierra #Mountains #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/077/607/634/519/764/original/cfb9e3cc421119d3.jpg

2025-02-25 01:21:14 UTC

Say, "Hello," to Mr. Beefy!
Dromaius novaehollandiae (emu), Reno, Nevada.
#Birds #BirdPhotography #Pets #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/061/889/022/110/046/original/669a9ddbd3c716cb.jpg

2025-02-24 01:15:35 UTC

It warmed up today so I ran a few errands on my motorcycle. Everybody I saw, young & old, had their faces smashed into their phones--people walking in parking lots, employees working in stores--it was creepy. It reminded me of the Star Trek TNG episode where the Enterprise crew was addicted to a game played in AR glasses. People were around me, but they weren't. It was like the invasion of the mind snatchers. In a lot of ways, life seemed better without the internet. Do you remember? Thoughts?

2025-02-23 20:35:23 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-02-22 06:50:41 UTC

It's fun to make long exposures of Ferris wheels. The light patterns you see are endless! Electric snowflakes, they are!
History tidbit: George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., (February 14, 1859 – November 22, 1896), inventor for the Ferris wheel, lived in Carson City, Nevada, for a short period of time. The Sears–Ferris House is at 311 W Third Street in Carson City. And in Reno, there is a street named after Ferris.
#Fair #Carnival #Summer #Fun #History #Abstract #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/046/147/856/309/927/original/c019f5890e7ffe86.jpg
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2025-02-20 08:58:51 UTC

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Happy Birthday!

2025-02-20 06:24:38 UTC

Yes, that is correct, it is a shipwreck in the desert.
Filed under: Things you find in Nevada.
#Desert #Boat #Abandoned #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/034/758/676/608/471/original/c4913655fc459cf9.jpg

2025-02-20 02:48:36 UTC

Call it: "Weird Wednesday." (Bridgeport, California.)
#WeirdWednesday #Weird #Sign #Frosty #Hamburger #IceCream
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/033/903/498/205/134/original/f9fe96d845888223.jpg

2025-02-18 09:18:57 UTC

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Very nice!

2025-02-18 04:54:33 UTC

Alpenglow on Mt. Whitney 4,421m (14,505ft).
#Mountains #Sierra #California #Landscape #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/023/072/599/834/203/original/5a995d4d70df3593.jpg

2025-02-17 07:15:29 UTC

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That's beautiful!

2025-02-17 04:53:48 UTC

My favorite tree species, Pinus longaeva (Great Basin bristlecone pine). This tree could be 1,000-3,000yrs old. In California's White Mountains, at over 3,000 meters (10,000ft) elevation, a Pinus longaeva has been found to be over 5,000yrs old! The trees grow on light colored dolomite limestone, the remains of an ancient sea. Pinus longaeva wood is so hard it never rots, rather, it erodes.
#Trees #Mountains #Biology #Geology #Evolution #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/017/366/245/157/857/original/0791b7f5faf0105c.jpg

2025-02-17 03:04:34 UTC

Waxing crescent Moon setting over Reno, Nevada.
#AstroPhotography #Moon #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/016/995/277/641/703/original/ef29a1bcc4bee834.jpg

2025-02-16 20:54:34 UTC

C/N:8 tail number: NC9645 (5-AT-B, 1928). Carson City, Nevada, 2016.
#AVGeek #AirCraft #AirPlanes #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/015/490/807/720/403/original/6300b267da0cfce4.jpg

2025-02-16 20:03:12 UTC

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And every Star Trek fan knows who really invented Velcro. :)

2025-02-15 07:39:27 UTC

The snow blot test. What do you see?
#Psychology #Snow #Lake #Mountains #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/006/738/280/427/404/original/683fd0867b09ff36.jpg

2025-02-14 22:12:32 UTC

Ready for the rain.
#StreetPhotography #Clouds #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/004/517/711/497/599/original/9d099a76305577ee.jpg

2025-02-14 13:25:09 UTC

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"Octopi on the run," ha ha, that's funny! That could be a song title!

2025-02-14 07:33:00 UTC

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Nice! I certainly know where that is! How did you like your visit to the Big Rez? Did you get up into Utah on your trip?

2025-02-14 07:27:01 UTC

Did anybody loose an octopus?
#Reno #Downtown #StreetPhotography #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/001/025/514/373/398/original/acf632b45406649d.jpg

2025-02-12 03:10:43 UTC

Askew.
#BlackAndWhite #Architecture #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/988/708/928/295/186/original/04b0e5b82bfa194e.jpg

2025-02-11 06:16:21 UTC

Okay, I've been tooting a lot of B&W lately so here's a little color for a change. This is the closet I've come to getting fresh snow on fall trees at this cool looking ranch in California's Sierra Valley. (10/18/2021)
#Ranch #Fall #Western #Landscape #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/983/766/214/974/676/original/33f7ee6aaa1ac667.jpg

2025-02-11 03:14:40 UTC

The International Car Forest of the Last Church in Goldfield, Nevada, is, well, strange. Strange place. Strange photo processing. What do you think, ya or nay?
#Art #Cars #Abandoned #Desert #BlackAndWhite #Landscape #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/983/056/945/038/370/original/849c147def1cfc78.jpg

2025-02-11 01:31:18 UTC

Well okay, I guess I'll just scoot around back to do my business.
#Sign #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/982/630/687/097/544/original/11ee81603b952a13.jpg

2025-02-09 23:46:57 UTC

Celebrating SuperbOwl day! Why? Because owls are just superb creatures! (Truly, I really like owls!) More owls, less sports.
Athene cunicularia (burrowing owl), Imperial Valley, California (10/12/2024).
#SuperbOwl #Owl #BirdPhotography
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/976/571/980/209/460/original/0dd944c6a4a2881d.jpg

2025-02-07 21:03:41 UTC

If I owned a photography studio it would probably look like this one--lol! (South-central Utah, 4/25/2024.)
#Architecture #StreetPhotography #Photography #Studio #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/964/603/317/134/463/original/d87b9a24c254ec04.jpg

2025-02-06 23:10:48 UTC

Holy hell--what the actual fuck. I need a replacement toilet bowl for a thirty-year-old American Standard toilet. "Standard" is a fucking joke. They have at least fifty different models & not a fucking thing is "standard." So now I need to buy a whole new toilet, tank & bowl, & there are hundreds & hundreds of models across at least thirty brands. What the actual fuck‽ ‽ ‽ I mean, it's a bowl to shit in. Wouldn't like a dozen styles across three brands be sufficient?

2025-02-06 20:51:07 UTC

Probably a Echinocereus coccineus (scarlet hedgehog cactus), but there are a ton of species in the Echinocereus genus, so who knows? One thing is certain, they brighten up the early spring desert landscape in the Southwest. (Photo: Bluff, Utah area, 4/23/2024.)
#Desert #BloomScrolling #WildFlowers #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/958/899/313/355/675/original/ca359a3002d7cfa3.jpg

2025-02-06 08:28:47 UTC

I think I'm liking my new method for enhancing very weathered petroglyphs. I'm using the combination drawn and parametric masks in a second Darktable exposure module instance. First I paint in where I want the mask. Then I adjust it using the parametric functions. Then I lighten the faded petoglyphs. What do you think? Does this image look too manipulated or does it look fairly natural?
#Archeology #RockArt #Desert #Art #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/955/956/710/660/547/original/edbb821cbac75e89.jpg

2025-02-04 00:20:34 UTC

Time to make haste and bail from the back country! (Or hole up--off a canyon floor--if you're on foot.)
#Desert #Landscape #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/942/732/859/236/545/original/eb30b4a4b4b5c52e.jpg

2025-02-03 08:48:17 UTC

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Pilot Roger Peterson also died in that crash.

2025-02-03 07:48:45 UTC

Yes, sometimes I do go to those iconic western locations & make photographs, like a million others before me. When I get home I transfer them to my desktop & there they sit. What can I do to make them unique & different for all of the others? I don't think I've looked at these until now. Anyway, here's a sunset behind the "mittens" at Monument Valley on the Navajo Reservation (5/14/2023).
#Desert ##Park #Sunset #Landscape #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/938/820/464/551/709/original/04862f76d226baf1.jpg

2025-02-02 07:48:37 UTC

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Ya, a fixed price is good. You should also have a contact, like 20 years, and, as I said earlier, a must take provision. By definition, a properly designed FIT is wholesale energy. Your generation should be on the wholesale side of the meter, that way, like in the US with net-metering, the capacity of your facility isn't tied to the size of your load. With a properly designed FIT you are able to build your system as large as you want, greening the energy for everyone on the grid.

2025-02-02 03:05:08 UTC

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Hm, that's unfortunate. I've not covered the energy space in years. If you indeed have an actual feed in tariff where you are, it should have been designed with a "must take" provision for the utility. In other words, they have to take all of the feed in tariff contracted renewables first & at whatever the original contact price per kWh was. Are you actually on the wholesale side of the meter or are you doing something more like energy net-metering, which is what it sounds more like to me

2025-02-02 02:47:37 UTC

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Nice! But I don't understand "back to the grid." If you generated the energy, isn't it yours to "send to the grid"?
The utilities have us so manipulated that we use euphemisms like back to the grid. They don't want us to think we could be generators selling energy to them. Which is the only way we'll ever get to 100%+ renewable energies & is why we'll never get there. They won't let their customers play in their sandbox. My apologies, that word "back" always sets me off.
#FeedInTariffs

2025-02-01 06:51:30 UTC

Central Nevada (5/11/2023).
#StreetPhotography #Graffiti #Abandoned #Photography #Darktable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/927/280/437/108/576/original/c7fcdfa3189382d5.jpg

2025-01-31 23:14:00 UTC

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Lol-- "meaningful" western. Good point. :) And ya, that had the makings of a great concept album!

2025-01-31 23:02:12 UTC

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Wow, I had never heard that piece before. Excellent piece of music! Some of it could have been used in a Sergio Leone western, lol! (With deference to the excellent scoring by Ennio Morricone, of course.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV8e_RkpiNA

2025-01-31 22:25:00 UTC

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Ya, I'm prog fan! :) Mostly older stuff, but there are some somewhat newer bands I like such as Änglagård that I like. Here's Kung Bore if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V0CVXV_pkI

2025-01-31 22:10:09 UTC

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Oh, how cool, one of my favorite Crimson tunes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLlmbCkb3As

2025-01-31 22:08:43 UTC

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Oh ya, that was an excellent performance!

2025-01-31 22:04:31 UTC

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Maybe I need to play some King Crimson to wash it out of my head? Ah, that did it, Larks Tongue in Aspic pt2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIDrvoI_hJ0

2025-01-31 21:48:40 UTC

I guess if you're gonna have an earworm stuck in your head it's not a horrible thing if it's Heart's Ann Wilson singing Straight On. But 5-6 hours of it, I don't think I ever need to hear that song again...
#Earworm #Music #Song

2025-01-31 10:23:48 UTC

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Good video!

2025-01-31 08:23:08 UTC

In the past I've briefly looked at Signal for a messaging alternative. Because I've been seeing people talk a lot about Signal again recently, I looked again. It appears, as it did the last time I looked, that you can't receive or send messages to users outside of Signal, is that correct? If so, what is a good alternative to Google's messenger? I'm not too concerned about security, but am interested in using software developed & maintained outside of the US.

2025-01-28 11:32:33 UTC

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Nice! A framer at work! Is that you? It's always nice to print your photos. Nothing like a physical copy in hand! I frame two days a week at an independent art store here in Reno. It is a fun semi-retired job. And I get to use their large format printers and get an employee discount!

2025-01-26 05:34:24 UTC

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Indeed. And people flooding over to Bluesky aren't looking behind the curtains. It's primarily funded by crypto-bros. Once they have a large entrenched audience you can bet it will quickly go the way of the dead bird site.

2025-01-25 08:11:06 UTC

The machine shop at Berlin, Nevada (1/24/2025).
#Mining #GhostTown #Nevada #Abandoned #Desert #Photography #Darktable
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2025-01-24 00:40:13 UTC

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Well, good for them! I need to shop there more frequently.