Southampton coach Ralph Hasenhuttl drops to his knees in tears after a critical victory over English Premier League top of the table Liverpool. Hasenhuttl, an Austrian, has never before defeated the famous German coach of Liverpool, Jurgen Klopp.
Southampton, now 6th place in the league, are only 4 points behind leaders Liverpool.
You don’t have to be a “hard man” all the time.
By OM MALIK
As someone who lives in the grays, I immensely appreciate a cold rainy weekend in San Francisco. This morning, I made myself a nice cup of tea and sat down on the writing table with my iPad, hoping to spend time reading some articles and catching up on books that have slowly started to pile up on the bed-stand. For some odd reason, I began to look at some of my older photos. I had edited them over the past twelve months.
As I flipped through the gigantic photoshop files, it felt as if I was looking at the work of someone else. I felt assaulted by the colors — even though I had stripped out the extraneous as much as I could. It is not as if I don’t enjoy a beautiful sunset or a glorious sunrise. It is not that I don’t enjoy the pinks, mauve, and gentle oranges over the breaking waves of the Pacific. However, when it comes to the visual interpretation of these same landscapes, I can’t help wrinkling my proverbial nose as if the color was a piece of rotting vegetation?
How did I end up here? Why? I often ask myself.
I always enjoy Om’s musings. Whether the topic is writing about the technical machinery that seems to be cranking full speed in his neck of the prairie…or photography…he’s just about always addressing something of interest to me.
I’m not the dedicated photographer I have been in decades past; but, my interest has never waned. Om’s style and commentary always finds the heart of whatever values he examines.
…he spends so much time in here.
Photo credit – Domino
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Haven’t touched the intensity of the colors of this morning’s sunrise a single iota. Only editing was cropping size. It was so brilliant, I got up from breakfast and went out to the gate to grab a quick iPhoto.
Fortunately, the garage shielded me while taking the picture. Wind was already gusting into the 30’s…and got about twice as strong later in the morning.
Worth it.
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Treatment blocks at a temporary hospital set up in the Krylatskoye Ice Palace to care for Covid-19 patients.
Maxim Shemetov/Reuters
…A Reminder Of How Gorgeous Earth Is
Father and son catch fish inside a cave in Vietnam during monsoon season.
…A reminder of how gorgeous our world is — you know, back before all we were thinking about was COVID-19 and lockdowns and vaccine trials?
Take a look at the winning entries of the 2020 Siena International Photo Awards, an annual contest organized by a group of photographers and enthusiasts from Siena, Italy, that aims to showcase images of beauty, culture and nature across the globe.
Same as it ever was.
Caja del Rio just after sunset
Sunsets – along with sunrise and every other reason for looking to the horizon – have been crap for weeks. Tonight was different.
The smoke from wildfires has been persistent and often oppressive. Key fires here in New Mexico have been out for a little while; but, about 50 square miles of Colorado is still burning. So said the morning news. Air quality indications on my iPhone’s weather app have been moderately unsafe at best…usually “unhealthy for sensitive groups”…like human beings.
Most of this week, I’ve worn a cloth mask to keep the crud away from my lungs.
But, tonight, on my last exercise lap walking our fenceline, I glanced East towards the road and realized there were a few lovely red clouds in the sky and I could see the Sangre de Cristos East of Santa Fe clearly as evening approached. Most of this week, I could barely see there was a mountain range there – not that many miles away.
I turned and looked back at the mesa across our valley and the sky was smoke-free, clouds colored by the sun which set several minutes earlier. And grabbed a quick photo.
After I took the picture, I brought up the weather app. I hadn’t worn the mask tonight and the app confirmed my opinion. Air Quality was “good”. Hope it stays so…through the weekend and on into autumn.
Jason Hargrove/Flickr
Software called Fawkes “cloaks” photos to trick the deep learning computer models that power facial recognition…
The rapid rise of facial recognition systems has placed the technology into many facets of our daily lives, whether we know it or not…But thus far, people have had few protections against this use of their images—apart from not sharing photos publicly at all.
The Fawkes project provides a powerful new protection mechanism.
With enough cloaked photos in circulation, a computer observer will be unable to identify a person from even an unaltered image, protecting individual privacy from unauthorized and malicious intrusions.
Math and science wins, again.
Though I don’t recall the variety’s name, we bought some of these freestone peaches at Trader Joe’s, this morning. This is the first one I cut in half to have after today’s lunch.
What a perfect freestone. The stone fell out after I separated the halves and took this quick iPhoto. Dry stone. Flesh light and barely perfumed with whatever someone may have named this fruit’s flavor. Cut the two halves into sections and then slices. Took lots of time to savor my dessert.
…Thank you, TJ.
Read this blog often enough over this summer, you know I love the numbers of Osha in our meadows here in Northern New Mexico. I also get a chuckle when I see articles about the shape of the coronavirus being unique. In nature in general, not so unique. Whether you’re enjoying the scent of Osha on a sunrise walk or – for that matter – fishing from a coastal breakwater and catching a spiny Pufferfish. :-]
