David Hobby

Many thanks to all of you who have read, supported, and reviewed The Traveling Photographer’s Manifesto. Starting today, it is also available as a DRM-free audiobook: the-traveling-photographer-2.myshopify.com/products/the...

Spurned Nobel sour grapes trumps white, blonde immigrants I guess

When my friend @davidhobby.bsky.social organized a team to visit Cuba during the Obama administration, it was an amazing visit to talk with people there and get a feel for what they were living through. The Cuban Thaw plan was to integrate Cuba's economy more fully into the West, but then... Trump.

Dawn walk at the Howard County Conservancy this morning

Walking around with essentially all of the world’s music accessible from the palm of your hand.

Private equity is buying out, and taking over, many mom-and-pop dental clinics. Their goal: maximize profits, everything else be damned. This searchable map will show which dental clinics in your area have been bought out by private equity: whoownsmydentists.com

He swore an oath to the Constitution

Costco “super premium” vanilla ice cream absolutely deserves that label—and is $6.50 per half-gallon in packs of two. Ridiculously good.

“… Experts project an estimated 100,000 churches in the US will close or be repurposed over the next decade. Many churches will be unable to escape this “tsunami” of closings …” www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...

GOP-owned (US) TikTok, now banning disfavored “political content.” 🤐

0.45 Scaramuccis

Wow. That a guy like Ken Paxton is even polling in the same order of magnitude as James Talarico is, frankly, nuts.

We’re bringing this back for 2026. From 2024: Amongst the traditional trick-or-treat bucket of candy choices: always one small potato. Result: DIFFERENT matters. Potatoes were a huge hit. Gave out at least 30 spuds tonight. Lots of potato chatter in the neighborhood tonight, as well. 🎃 🥔

Please stand by for an important message from the current Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security:

Hooboy. C.J. Cregg, she ain’t. Def staying up for the SNL cold open this week. 🔥

I would worry about offending some of the wrong people. But, they won’t get it.

10/10, no notes. 🇺🇦

An oil terminal in Rostov is transferring its diesel to the cloud. That's where Trump can get it if he wants to.

10/10, no notes.

I wandered around the palace of the Sultan of Oman once, unescorted, after midnight.

this is fucked up

Seen on Rednote: a render of what someone in China is suggesting that Nikon should make. Honestly, I think a mirrorless Nikon Z body that paid homage to the original S2/S3 series would absolutely kill. (📷: 玩物有智的爽司, via Rednote)

Limpkins #BirdOfTheDay #Pairs #Birds #Photograph#EastCoastKin #ECK #EricOlsonPhotography

If your vintage camera is missing a hood—or maybe you just don’t like the current plastic tulip hoods—you can buy a metal version for a song on AliExpress. Right diameter, right focal length. This one was $6.85, shipped. a.aliexpress.com/_mL7pdqj

you guys broke watergate

100% endorse, and a great travel hack. I keep a playlist on my Spotify with lots of cinematic pieces just for times like this. It’s like a ✨see the magic✨ filter for your mind when you’re walking around. (Especially, with a camera.) #1 easy gateway into this vibe: Joe Hisaishi.

I’d like to imagine that this is pretty much what happens whenever two actors from The Wire run into each other these days. 🐐 @audacityofdespair.bsky.social

Prediction: 100k returning young people, very pissed off at what endless wars and tax cuts for the wealthy has cost them.

Very thankful to not be driving a big diesel truck right now. 🛵

And we live in a country with an administration that doesn’t even have the moral integrity to acknowledge what it did. One hundred and twenty three dead girls = fake news.

A newly emerged male monarch butterfly flaps his wings to build up the necessary internal hydrostatic pressure before taking his first test flight.

To my fellow lighting geeks who are now similarly applying their skills to their living spaces: Rednote app -> hashtag #NoMainLightDesign -> expect yourself to be unavailable for awhile.

Once again the White House Correspondents Association, which had a celebratory dinner with this guy just months ago, looks like stupid craven fools. Good call idiots.

🤯 Game changer for wedding, sports, and event photographers. And yeah, I totally second the recommendation for Photo Mechanic to best leverage this added new speed.

Old enough to remember when buying a camera didn’t require a mortgage

The United States Senate is the republic’s august upper chamber, where one hundred senators shoulder the weight of history over the laws, treaties, appointments, and great questions that shape the nation’s destiny. Also, the United States Senate: