I've never wanted to lie down under a tree with a book so much before. Cumbria. Canon AE-1 Program
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And there’s a brilliant opera, Der Meister und Margarita, music and libretto by York Höller that I saw in about 1990. Conducted by Pierre Boulez. A surreal evening!
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Path through the countryside. Cumbria. Canon AE-1 Program
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@Gargron you seem to be really enjoying Cumbria specifically. If you don't mind a somewhat terrifying drive, look up Hardknott Pass. It's Britain's steepest road and has lots of insane corners, most notably a hairpin turn where if you come off of the road, you're not going to be getting back on to it again (I nearly died there myself the first time I drove it, in a clapped out Ford S-Max, pitch black and heavy rain!), but there's the remains of a roman Fort there which is a must-see! I was at the Real Camera shop in Manchester and saw a Mamiya medium format camera in person. I wish I had the 800 pounds to drop on it 😅 Bought an amber lens filter instead to see if I can get better colors in this weather.
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@Gargron pls adjust the black point! Most scanners struggle with this. Mine, for example, wouldn't yield rgb values below 15-20. This results in washed out picture. Here's ur pic with the black point adjusted. I did this on my phone so it might look w little wacky. Normally you'd check a histogram and adjust the black and white point so that there's no empty space (0s) on either side. Since Mastodon I finally know what camera to get - really want to get into that hobby. A friend of mine suggested the A6300 for hobbyists, and I might do that to shoot similarly awesome pictures like yours :blobcatmeltlove:
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@Gargron #progmetal ? Do you know #porcupinetree ? if not you should. While I have your eye PLEASE carry over hashtags into replies…
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@Gargron Someone needs to get you some Christmas mastodon baubles #christmas #bauble #mastodon
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@Gargron Gorgeous! I would love to be surrounded by nature every day. So good for the soul.
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@Gargron Ahhh we were on holiday in Grasmere just a month ago. Staying literally about 20 metres away from where you took that photo. And yes, it's a beautiful village in a beautiful part of the UK. What a difference a month makes to the weather, though! @Gargron The pavements, alas, are miniscule. Clearly a space built before cars that then had to have two lanes of pollution and danger carved out of it Because Progress...
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@Gargron Or simply silence? For the first time in a country that celebrates Halloween during Halloween and I like it. @Gargron I’ve always enjoyed Halloween. More the fun/spooky bits and not the scary/horror bits. It’s the midway between the Autumnal Equinox and Winter Solitce as my favorite time of year. :) Edited for spelling: Thinking about the #Tumblr engineer who said they believe interoperability with the social web would just be a cost center and wouldn’t bring any profits. The point is not how interoperability affects the bottom line, the point is that it allows your platform to survive in an ever changing social media landscape and have a bottom line at all. If #Pebble was part of the social web, they would have had a network of 1.8M active users, not 1,000, and perhaps wouldn’t have had to shut down.
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@Gargron At this stage, the fediverse's audience is too small to attract established social networks, especially when, like #tumblr, they don't distribute much real-time news. The #fediverse will take off thanks to the publishers and curators who see #ActivityPub as an "interactive RSS feed" that liberates them from platforms. WordPress and Flipboard can play a key role in this. |
@Gargron are you going to visit Liverpool? It’s such a beautiful city (in my biased opinion)
@Gargron Say hi to Turing, I think he's on a bench in that park!
@Gargron A mix of modern and old buildings, love it!