On a 6 hour train journey, luckily its air conditioned but still rough. What's the longest train journey you've done? Mine is 9 hours.

I feel like mobile phone cameras are getting worse. I was looking at pictures taken on a galaxy s24 and an old s9 and huawei p20 pro. On the new s24, everything looks oddly smeared and melted plastic like when viewing in close detail. Fine detail is lost. It also seems to be less flexible with options to turn off all the post processing. On the older phones, things look more natural, yes they are grainy and not as high resolution, but easier to work with in Photoshop. Why is this?

I am awake too early, however.......... GM NOSTR

Gmgmgmgmgmgmgm Gm nostr

A star wars girl. This was a really fun shoot. #photography

I just can't get my head round people using any cloud services (that they don't own or manage themselves). I keep getting pestered to share stuff to google or Microsoft, or one of a dozen supposedly private ones, but I refuse. I know you can encrypt everything first, but its still better to buy a few hard drives and share your own files, I think anyway.

X has those "verify your age" flags all over the place now, its really annoying. Have they done this for every country now or just EU? I don't use X except for lurking, now that's useless, bye X/twitter

Using bitchat today, its OK, took a while to find the person sitting literally next to me, but once it did then it worked fine. This is going to be really useful once its developed a bit more.

They say in photography "anything that doesn't add to the picture takes away from the picture". Basically this means simplify where possible, and applies to more than just photography.

About 15 years ago, I proposed an idea to the owner of a large internet photography site. Allow us to add money to our monthly subscription fee, that we could then use to "tip" photos that were posted that we liked. The idea was to encourage people to post more, and better pictures. But also to reward photographers that you thought were posting good work, since there were really no other ways am average photographer could make any money back from shoots (outside of weddings etc, I'm talking about hobby photography). Anyway, the owner eventually said no, he couldn'timagine people just "randomly giving money away". I explained it only had to be cents/pennies, whatever, but he declined. And here we are on nostr, where people randomly zap things they find cool or interesting, including photos :) and it's a great , unexpected, thing 😀😃

I recently discovered Peter Gabriel era Genesis :) Weird as I like both Peter Gabriel and Genesis but always thought the older stuff was going to be too strange for me. And it is certainly strange, but its glorious. Selling England by the pound (with oddly relevant themes today) is brilliant, Foxtrot is wild and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is surreal. Musicianship is top notch, Phil Collins shines, They all do. I know it falls under the dreaded "prog rock", but definitely worth a listen.