Tag: Photo Only on Social

Looks like it’s already wildfire season again.

Looks like it’s already #wildfire season again. Maybe somewhere out near Silverado Canyon or Lake Elsinore? That smoke plume is roughtin the direction of Saddleback when it’s visible from here. #socal

On PixelFed.Social

[A few days later:] Or maybe not. I haven’t found anything else, so maybe it was closer than it looked and/or put out quickly.

I took a break from errands and went to the bluffs above the beach to …

I took a break from errands and went to the bluffs above the beach to watch boats and seagulls. It was super windy, and the seagulls were hovering in the updraft…and riding the wind *sideways*!

That, and the usual wheeling around, made them difficult to catch on camera.

#fotofails

On Photog.Social

Found my tourist snapshots from visiting NotreDameCathedral way back when.

Found my tourist snapshots from visiting #NotreDameCathedral way back when. Gloomy day with scaffolding, and a note that none of the inside photos came out. I can see why I never scanned them, though I might dig out the negatives and do that now just to get them onto digital.

On PixelFed.Social

I find it *fascinating* that the phone’s digital zoom function makes it look like it’s made up of brushstrokes

I took this with my phone to use as a reference for a photo I took with another camera. I wasn’t intending to do anything with it, but I find it *fascinating* that the phone’s digital zoom function makes it look like it’s made up of brushstrokes instead of pixels.

(Though personally, I’ve never understood why digital zoom is implemented as a resize instead of just cropping to a lower resolution.)

On Photog.Social
Expanded on K2R (with a different picture)

This shot looks OK at small sizes, but at larger sizes it just looks wrong …

This shot looks OK at small sizes, but at larger sizes it just looks wrong to me. I was going for a view with the daffodils in focus and the coral tree behind them blurry, but unfortunately it’s not blurry enough to look intentional.

I took a shot with my film camera too, but I haven’t finished the roll yet, so I won’t know for a while whether that one came out better.

#fotofails #photography #garden

On Photog.Social

Overloaded! Someone was trying to move boulders on wooden pallets for landscaping, and they seem to have been a bit much for the pallets to handle…

Overloaded! Someone was trying to move boulders on wooden pallets for landscaping, and they seem to have been a bit much for the pallets to handle…

On PixelFed.Social

Comments from Facebook:

Jim Vibber: Possibly. The pallet underneath looks okay, and the band around the boulder *might* be tight. I wonder if the upper pallet was intentionally smashed to keep the boulder from rolling back and forth during transportation.
Oct 28, 2018, 3:12 PM

Kelson Vibber: Hmm, that could be it.
Nov 1, 2018, 3:25 PM

Heatsink inside!

Heatsink inside! A photo I originally took to try to get some idea of what the power supply was in this particular computer without pulling things out, so I could figure out what limitations I was working with for upgrading. I think it looks interesting.

I’ve since upgraded every component I *can* in it: CPU, RAM, SDD, graphics…but it still can’t handle The Bard’s Tale IV, which is really disappointing, since I’ve been looking forward to it since the start of the Kickstarter campaign.

On PixelFed.Social

Sunset lighting up the clouds before tonight’s rainstorm.

Sunset lighting up the clouds before tonight’s rainstorm. It was one of those moments when you just stop wherever you can because you know that if you try to get to a good spot, the light will have changed and the moment will be gone. So there are power lines and telephone poles, but at least I captured the light.

On PixelFed.Social