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Most people would want to go straight to my computer collection or my photos on Flickr. Otherwise you can see what I have been doing recently:

July 8th
mastodon (feed #55) 10:34am Posted on Mastodon:

Content warning:AI slop and youtube thumbnails

I am generally able to avoid youtube thumbnails, but I saw one and sighed... I can look past the splashy text in the common yellow/white font, but instead of just using a frame from the video, it recreates the frame, messing up text as it does...

"HOT!!" vs "HOTT 7"
"BUILT 2025" vs "EST 2016"

And a quirk of this youtuber was that the text added to thumbnails often had spelling mistakes, that is gone...

AI generated thumbnail for a youtube video, text on the front of the equipment has been recreated incorrectly

July 7th
waverley (feed #63) 11:10pm Posted on Waverley Camera Club:
July 2026 “My favourite artwork” results

July 2nd
blog (feed #25) 8:20pm Published a blog post.
Digging deep into the backlog

July 1st
mastodon (feed #55) 7:37pm Posted on Mastodon:

The final set from deep in the backlog, from a weekend down at Phillip Island:

flickr.com/photos/popcorncx/al
flickr (feed #61) 7:33pm Posted 28 photos on Flickr. (Hide Details)
St. Paul's Calm-ish Arches in the courtyard Rock variety Inrush At Cat Bay Captive bench Men working Boardwalk Nobbies Many layers Fresnel Signal mast and telegraph station Holiday town Hugging the coast Imposing A decent drop Packing up Our shadow Circular Bales St Huberts Rolling Lines Within Our companion Filling up Testing the burners
mastodon (feed #55) 7:07pm Posted on Mastodon:

Another set from the deep backlog, a day trip down to Cape Otway:

flickr.com/photos/popcorncx/al
mastodon (feed #55) 6:31pm Posted on Mastodon:

More from deep in the backlog, this time a hot air balloon ride in 2009

flickr.com/photos/popcorncx/al

June 30th
mastodon (feed #55) 10:42pm Posted on Mastodon:

More from the deep-backlog, this time Puffing Billy in 2009

flickr.com/photos/popcorncx/al
flickr (feed #61) 10:16pm Posted 10 photos on Flickr. (Hide Details)
Cuppa Wet and oily Six ninety Looking in Trespassers Prosecuted Track patrol Sprite Points Trestle Do not climb

June 29th
mastodon (feed #55) 11:13pm Posted on Mastodon:

It was an interesting exercise to post-process images that I took 18 years ago and hadn't looked at since. Some of the locations will now be quite different, so I will try to revisit on my upcoming Sydney trip.

flickr.com/photos/popcorncx/al
flickr (feed #61) 11:01pm Posted 28 photos on Flickr. (Hide Details)
Supports Intersecting arches Carousel AMP but not Tricolor Transport of the (not) future Swinging Monorail! Chaotic Harbour Control Endeavour (replica) View between supports Structure underneath Named Multiple groups A group heading down Two icons For crossing on foot Peeking between Fountain from above A different bridge to the west Visitors come and go Rising behind Sex + Death A seat in the shade Spurt Art Deco A hot weekday afternoon
mastodon (feed #55) 12:05am Posted on Mastodon:

Huh... while planning photo locations for a short trip to Sydney next month I realised that I have photos from a trip in 2008 that I never fully processed. Adding to the top of my backlog as I might want to revisit some of them...

Of the two I did process, one was this which I know I could take better now: flickr.com/photos/popcorncx/35

June 24th
blog (feed #25) 9:16pm Published a blog post.
A media player upgrade

June 13th
librarything (feed #60) 6:00pm Added 3 books on LibraryThing. (Hide Details)
The Working Camera: The World's First Pop-up Guide to Photography Chip War Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

June 7th
flickr (feed #61) 1:06am Posted 2 photos on Flickr. (Hide Details)
The Son of Man Quadruple sunset

June 4th
waverley (feed #63) 9:11pm Posted on Waverley Camera Club:
VAPS Interclub 2026 results

June 2nd
waverley (feed #63) 9:08pm Posted on Waverley Camera Club:
June 2026 “Landscape/Seascape panorama” results