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Commentator Grandmaster Naroditsky sees the blunder by Ding Liren on move 55 of the final game (14) of the World Championship in less than 2 SECONDS! Congrats to youngest world champion EVER Gukesh Dommaraju & to all of India for their new favorite son! #chess #Gukesh #worldchampion #India

So accurate.

Good morning from south central Nebraska, in the wide Platte River Valley. (No saturation boost!)

We bring you this LIVE LOOK at South Korea President Yoon…

Anybody besides me considering getting up at 4 AM CST to see Game 5 LIVE? #chess worldchampionship.fide.com

Does this mean that I can put “Published author” on my resume? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sig...

Fall in the Colorado Rockies.

Late afternoon “God Rays”.

This is a stack of 6 tracked exposures, if memory serves. Taken with a Pentax DSLR & a Tokina AT-X 90mm f/2.5 (manual focus macro). One other thing Nebraska has plenty of is dark skies. :)

Nebraska (my home) does not have mountains or (many) waterfalls but the Great Plains has most interesting weather, and in the Spring storm chasers come from all over the world to seek supercells with great structure (and, sometimes, tornadoes).

So many things to like about this image. Choice of focal point (the closest rocks), the long shutter speed, the use of depth of field… this image = my “aha!” moment for the why of ND filters.

What are the chances that the dog leash would be the perfect length for this spacing? A terrific capture!

A Revolution in How Robots Learn www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Have yet to try it, but it is at the intersection of three of my loves: #photography #darkroom & #coffee www.baristamagazine.com/developing-p...

Thanks to a couple decent YT videos, I now have Qwen2.5-Coder & Llama3.2:7b running locally on my 64GB Win10 machine. NVIDIA Quadro P2200, 5 GB. Used Ollama & Docker then Open-WebUI for one & Bolt.new for the other.

But he answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the heaven is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to-day: for the heaven is red and lowering. Ye know how to discern the face of the heaven; but ye cannot discern the signs of the times -Matt 16

IMHO translucent PETG makes the best snow/ice pieces. Far better than mere white. #3DPrinting #BambuLab

Abandoned rural schoolhouse (I believe) - Captured on my way to chase storms in western Kansas, by an Ansel Adams wannabe. #Pentax

First time ever capturing YELLOW aurora (south-central Nebraska, Oct. 10, 2024 at 9:10 pm)

Actual cover of Christianity Today. Cue Alanis Morissette.

The car salesman says to me, “It will hold 6 people with no problem.” I said, “I don’t think I even KNOW 6 people with no problems!” #dadjoke

This is one of the first images that I took on my first Pentax DSLR. I made the lens out of one of the optics in a door peephole viewer and a Pentax body cap. No post-processing. #Pentax #Nebraska

One of mine: “John Deere Model D Steel Wheel, on the Prairie” #Pentax #Nebraska

I’m a huge fan of the work of Argentinian photographer/artist Ursula Abresch. You can get lost in her galleries: www.ursulasphotos.com/galleries

Ai is not Good or Bad. It’s a tool and so can be wielded for good OR evil. Here’s an example of the good. I’m proud to say I conceived the idea & am one of the inventors on the patent application (Patent Pending). Ai was trained to recognize subcomponent profiles. triadmachines.com/for-wood/a-i...

Not a Bessa: 1932 Voigtländer “Rollfilm” (because that was such an innovation over plates & sheet film). Gifted to me by a friend and in perfect working order. Uses 120. Absolutely gorgeous.

Bambu Lab printers ROCK