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A friend of mine had let me up to her 16th floor balcony, and she had a fantastic view of the city.

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This fine lady was just standing there. Close enough for me to get about fifty frames off, and well-lit enough for me to do it with a handheld telephoto lens.

I hope I did her justice.

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There's actually about ten images in this set, but Lemmy will only let me pick one, so I hope I got the best one of the set!

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(And if you wanted to see the others in the set, it's all over at https://pixelfed.social/tanisnikana)

My first time capturing fireworks. I made some mistakes, and I think the biggest mistake I made was being married to 100 ISO, and bringing a tripod. Fortunately for me, I was sitting right at the position directly in front of the barge, so I was able to get good shots of lovely centered fireworks. In order to get my ideas right, I shot a bit underexposed, about -1.5EV, but I think it worked out, made it harder to edit though.

My opinions and beliefs about the state of the country and my status with in it as a minority aside, I saw an opportunity for photography practice, and growth in the field, and I took it.

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Somehow I had been stuck on Darktable 3.8 for a while, so I finally uninstalled the system package of it, and bumped up to the 5.2 flatpak, and it's amazing! A bit of adjustment, and there we go! King says hi. I hope eventually rhinos can multiply and be less critically endangered.

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I wanted to capture the most glaring bits of modern suburbia, of modern infrastructure, in a crunchy and appealing frame and contrast. I was also hassled by a cop while I took this.

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I’ve been seeing these signs pop up everywhere, sometimes in the most unexpected places.

They help.

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When I set out to completely scrap my default Cinnamon-on-Linux-Mint experience, I decided I wanted something that felt like a fictional OS from a video game, like you'd sit down at someone's computer and see some BS operating system that you'd kind of understand but it definitely doesn't resemble much of what's real.

So:

Linux Mint 21.3, running Cinnamon. The dock on the left is Plank Reloaded, and the top panel is just a Cinnamon panel, with left-formatted date cause I haven't seen a major OS put stuff like that up in the corner. Both dock and panel intelligently autohide and are a dream to use. The little turtle emoji pops a somewhat custom applications menu, accessible with the Super key, both on dock and panel.

The system font across all elements is Inter, the most beautiful display font I've ever seen: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inter, and it just brings a certain elegance that the stock Ubuntu font is sorely lacking.

The theme is Semabe Grey Glassy, with the transparency tuned quite a bit for my personal taste, the mouse is Future-Cyan-Cursors, the dock icons are Mint-Y-Dark-Pink but with a modification for the turtle emoji, and the Linux Mint boot logo has been swapped out for you-know-exactly-what. The wallpaper is a moderately edited asset rip from Life is Strange: Double Exposure, and that blep turtle I fell in love with was as a mural on a wall in a bar, and since there's no clean photo mode, I could prolly just go find it (and I did!).

I hope you enjoyed looking at and hearing about my semi-fictitious TurtleOS!

The architecture of the Oregon Coast is always interesting to me. It’s a subtle biome change that has a lot of consequences in how a building looks–seeing houses like these just over the coastal range would be very rare indeed.

Also structurally, I’m really fond of this capture, it feels like a sandwich between heaven and earth and humanity gets the middle fifth of the image.

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1/80s, f/5.6, 300mm, ISO 100

Oregon Zoo

Portland, OR

~~stupid long horses~~

Amazingly enough, the zoo let me bring a tripod in, as long as I had left before noon, once it got busy. I took this time with few people and no crowds to take some pretty good photos. I'm starting to get the hang of this!

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I had been going back and forth between the coast a lot, and I got to be the passenger for one of the trips. With a piece in mind about hurtling through the trees at sixty miles per hour, I had turned the shutter speed to two seconds (too much blur, can’t tell what stuff is) and settled on a single second. Holding the camera as steady as possible in a bouncy car was difficult, but I like the result! There could be a little man dashing through the trees, trying to keep up with the car.

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