Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Uploaded a handful of #bird #photos ranging 2004-2015.
I imagine this #seagull reading the “No fishing” sign and being very disappointed.
An #egret wading in a marsh.
And another egret (I thought it was a crane at the time, but 3 people have IDed it as an egret) that I caught walking by the side of the road.
Funny thing is: I didn’t use the Flickr-to-#iNaturalist importer for these. On Flickr I posted the full, composed shots. For iNat, I wanted to crop them to show the birds more clearly.
Confirmed that iNaturalist is totally fine with uploading older observations.
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/can-i-upload-older-photos-as-observations/3259/3
Tried out the Flickr importer. It’s a bit rough for selecting, but it imports the description, time & location along with the photo, and you can import batches at a time.
I don’t want to totally flood my profile, but I’ve got a lot of timestamped photos of animals & plants since I bought my first digital camera…
@AskChip I can totally imagine that changes in atmospheric composition and temperature could impact the frequency of the right types of ice crystals forming.
I also seem to recall reading that noctilucent clouds were either increasing in frequency or starting to appear at lower latitudes over the last decade or so.
Two of these parakeets flew across the grocery store parking lot into a palm tree, squawking as they went. I could only spot one of them once they’d settled, but I managed to get almost a dozen photos of it while it sat there.
Link: Feral Parrots Are Taking Over America!
“These birds, descendants of escaped pets, have managed to create thriving colonies in these cities despite the annual cold weather.”
I spotted some of these feral #parrots in the grocery store parking lot today. Two #parakeets flew across the lot into a palm tree, squawking as they went. I could only spot one of them once they’d settled, but I managed to get almost a dozen photos of it while it sat there.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/26590485
#birds #parakeets #FeralParakeets #FeralParrots
#nature #wildlife #photos
TODO: combine with this post and others
A #finch that I spotted practically right outside my door a few weeks ago. I posted an animation made from several of these photos a while back. Here are the best of the still shots, cleaned up a bit.
@russdpale Very nice!
And I remember the S4 being one of the first phones I felt like I could take decent photos with. That was the point where I stopped tagging images with “cameraphone.”
Rocketship park (one of very few remaining parks with this sort of climbing structure). I stopped to grab coffee and realized I’d been able to see the shopping center from the park…so it stood to reason I ought to be able to see the park from the shopping center.
Yep!
I think the #BlackAndWhite version works a bit better on this.
#photos #park #rocketship
Flax-leaved horseweed, according to iNaturalist’s identification engine.
Since the idea is to catalog nature, not gardens, I’ve found myself taking lots of photos of weeds. Some that I know, like dandelions, and a lot that I don’t.
Unfortunately, while observations of birds almost instantly attract other users who are ready to fine-tune the ID, people don’t seem as interested in identifying plants.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/26041661
On Photog.Social
On iNaturalist
Fellow iNaturalist user @sohkamyung recommended this forum thread on photo-taking recommendations by taxon
@rubah suggests tagging fediverse pictures with #plantID or #PlantIdentification.
I found the original of this while looking for something else and thought it would look good in black and white.
#photography #BlackAndWhite #Birds
I’m kind of surprised that I didn’t post the original back when I took it. Yeah, it was pre-Instagram and I was barely using Flickr at the time, but I had been posting photos to my blog for a couple of years by then.
:shrug: Well, it’s up now. And who knows: maybe I wouldn’t have thought of adjusting the color if I’d stumbled on it as “Oh yeah, that one…” instead of rediscovering a photo I’d completely forgotten.
I mistyped the address for #Flickr’s status page (status.flickr.net) as static.flickr.com. As the parent domain of their static image servers, it does exist. The home page is…not what you’d expect.
Since joining iNaturalist, I’m paying more attention to the #birds I see (and, more often, hear). 3/4 of the time, they fly off before I have a chance to take a picture, but I’ve caught a few.
I learned that most of the #pigeons we see in cities are classified as feral, descended from domesticated pigeons derived in turn from rock pigeons who live on the sides of sea cliffs. Buildings serve as a nice substitute.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/kelsonv
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_pigeon
#Flickr seems to be stable enough to use now! I was able to upload images! (Through the website, anyway – the mobile app interface is still down.)
Everyone’s Good Panda photos are flowing into the contest group.
#Flickr is partly back after a day of planned downtime to move out of Yahoo’s datacenter.
For the downtime, they encouraged people to print out the #panda from the maintenance page and take photos of it off having adventures.
I went a bit overboard and put together 12 pictures of the panda exploring plants, hiding behind a crosswalk button, slipping near a caution sign, etc. I plan on posting this shot once uploads are working. The rest are on my blog at hyperborea.org/journal/2019/05/flickr-panda
These are a few shots from the grounds of a hotel in #Hawaii that isn’t there anymore.
The open-air lounge jutted out over #tidePools made of #lavaRock. A bridge labeled Kapu (forbidden) led to the next resort over, which had already been torn down.
It was on the Kona (west) side of the Big Island, and was demolished last year to make way for an educational/cultural center. Since there are several heiau ruins on the property, that’s probably a better use of it.
Two days later:
Realized in all the editing I dropped the *name* of the place. It was the Keauhou Beach Resort. I stayed there for a week in 2005, and took these pictures on an afternoon (or morning) when we weren’t going anywhere else.
@artilectzed Yeah, that was a nice change! Thinking I might do something for the panda also. I used to do three weekly photo challenges for groups in Flickr, Instagram and WordPress, but sort of got away from them. It’ll be fun to try a themed challenge again.
This is amusing.
SmugMug has been slowly disentangling #Flickr from Yahoo over the last few months, and they have planned downtime coming up in a few weeks to finish migrating a gazillion photos and videos from Yahoo’s datacenter to AWS.
The funny part: They’re doing a photo contest where you print out the maintenance notice and “take your photo of the little panda on an adventure somewhere,” then post it after the site comes back.
I managed to get out to the local botanical gardens again for a mild hike / photo walk. Large parts of the grounds are designed to look wild, though the plants are all grouped by category and labeled. Other parts are obviously manicured. I also have photos of a snail hidden in a rosemary bush and a lizard that…wasn’t very hidden!
Flickr Album: South Coast Botanic Garden
#Photography #nature #flowers #garden #lizard #snail #trees #spring
Scanned the negatives of my tourist shots from #NotreDameCathedral back in 1999(!). It was a gloomy day, but the sun did eventually come out. The front of the cathedral was being renovated at the time.
#Paris #photography #cathedral #France
The western horizon was blocked at sunset…but the view upward wasn’t!
Took the new camera to #WonderCon for #cosplay #photography.
1. I finally have a camera that can really handle inside lighting at a convention center!
2. I’ve gotten too used to just capturing costumes, instead of composing interesting shots.
2a. My 8YO took 1 photo all weekend (#InsideOut) & it ended up being the best that day. I took the lesson & improved my shots the next day, including the other 3 here.
#HarryPotter #BeautyAndTheBeast #LittleShopOfHorrors
