Oh that’s cool. I did similar on a recent hiking trip, one where I’d normally bring my tripod, ND filters, lenses etc… So heavy. And yeah, it was nice. Also, to not be constantly thinking “how to set up this shot”, just, enjoy it and snap some photos.
I’d try to meet the Buddha, and see if he could shed some of that instant enlightenment on me. In the stories, he seemed to be able to say just the right thing to people to wake them up out of the matrix.
My first answer was “buy Apple stock” but no effect on the time line probably means I don’t make any money. (well wait, what about enlightenment then, does that come with me?)
Whoa, dang, I didn’t know you could shoot raw on phones. What’s this world coming to! Time for me to sell my d800 before it’s too late! Kidding… Sorta… But, nice job, never would’ve guessed that was from a phone. :-)
Beautiful shot. Did you focus stack, or just use a small enough aperture? I like the colors and composition.
Way to get the “X” and the cat’s eyes in focus. Tough with that shallow DOF!
Agreed, great answer. As a fellow parent, I know that connection with your kid is far more important than whatever “dignity” you’ll “lose” from going on the trip.
He’s probably old enough (only you know, OP) for you to even talk about your discomfort with going, and to be open about your personal pros+cons of going. Who knows what he’ll say, but it sounds like a good conversation to have.
omg it’s the worst. When I’m not in a great mood, I flash my brights at said tall-ass pickup trucks. Probably gonna get shot one day.
I’ve been paying for Tuta for a couple years, and like it. I have my gmail forward to it just in case, but these days have basically completely switched, and barely ever get any legit emails forwarded from my gmail anymore.
:'( I feel ya.
Nobody fucks with the Jesus.
Yes! One easy/good one to use is https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ It lets you pick two colors, and you can even use the eyedropper tool in their Color Picker box to select a color right off your screen. Then it’ll tell you the Contrast Ratio of the two selected colors. Higher is better. It will give you a pass/fail for WCAG AA and AAA (two levels of web accessibility standards). I just now checked the red and green from the linked map and it had a ratio of 1.3:1 which is a fail for both AA and AAA.
Some websites (like Trello) give accessibility options to skip colors altogether, and use patterns (cross-hatch, polka-dot, etc.). But in general, going for a high enough contrast ratio should be good enough. I’m a web dev as well and we just run everything through one of those WCAG tools (I believe we’ve been using the WAVE browser plugin) and fix it until it passes. :) But, being the colorblind one on the team, I can often just be like “uhmm, that one ain’t gonna work.” lol.
btw sorry I got so spicy in my initial comment. I really wanted to see the map. :P
Edit: Another reply to my comment had a link to a more colorblind-friendly version of the map, with red and blue instead of red and green. Much clearer to my eyes. I eyedropped those two colors into that webaim checker, and I was surprised to see it also failed quite badly on the color contrast! For example you wouldn’t want red text on a blue background (unless it was a bright red and dark blue, or vice versa). But for map colors, well… I guess that goes to show that for colorblind checking you have to use a little common sense and know what the most common no-no combos are (red/green seems to be the most common). I checked the accessibility docs at my work just now and we sometimes use this site to check what a site looks like under various types of colorblindness: https://www.toptal.com/designers/colorfilter
oh that’s so much better! thank you!!
Wtf are those colors, jfc… How bout a hand for us colorblinds.
It’s from the movie Animal House. :) One of my favorite scenes ever (because who hasn’t been that kid? lol).
noise canceling bluetooth headphones (Sony XM3s, in my case). They are always near me. Thousands of hours and I haven’t even changed the earpads yet. I don’t know how I lived without them.
Very nicely processed!
Three’s Company
Pee-Wee’s Playhouse
Beavis and Butt-head
The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles. My first time reading an ancient classic, and it’s much less scary than I thought. In fact I’m quite enjoying it, and might read The Iliad (Homer’s other epic poem) next. The humanness of the characters (well, the human ones!) is very relatable, even though it’s 2700 years old. I don’t know why I expected it to be crusty and boring. Maybe I assumed it’d be like the Bible.
The intro explains a lot of stuff about the original Greek poem and how it was written in dactylic hexameterwhich bards back then used to be able to improvise in, which is amazing to me. Reminds me of 8 Mile or something. 😅