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There's so much going on that I can't post disapproving posts for every single thing. So here's just one blanket one.

It's all wrong. You know, everything. All of it. Not just in the US, but it's happening, or starting to, everywhere. The rule of law is abandoned and people are shipped off to uncontrolled foreign prisons. People's right to be who they are is removed. Institutions to help and better other people are disbanded.

We need to get back to caring about other people. Care about the next generation's ability to get educated. No matter the skin colour, no matter the social class, care about whether people can buy food. Care about people getting a fair trial. Care about people whether they are your gender or not, or have the gender you think they have, or even have a gender.

Care about other people, no matter what kind of 'other' they are.

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If your world view consists of white cowboy hats and black cowboy hats you may want to check whether your white cowboy hats aren't just black cowboy hats that have been spray painted white.

Pinned post, about following from multiple addresses

Hi, when I follow someone I usually do this from multiple accounts, with different servers and platforms. This is partially as backup. It’s also because different software has different features. E.g. at the moment of writing I mainly post from my Friendica server, but it doesn’t yet support polls, or account migrations. So I also follow from my Pleroma server, which does notify me someone has migrated.

I also sometimes use platforms that support nomadic identity, that allows my channels on multiple servers to be synced. From software that doesn’t support that, a follow request looks like multiple separate requests from those channels.

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Fly-by.

Or how to be caught out with the wrong lens on. This was a manual focus 2x macro lens...

Plane flying in the daylight sky with the Moon visible and nearby

📷 Canon EOS R10
🔭 Laowa 65mm F2.8 2x macro
1/800 s, ISO 500. F2.8 I think. Cropped.
Cc-by.

#Photography #Plane #Moon

#photography #moon #plane
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I guess we'll have baby pigeons soon.

Two pigeons, sitting in a tree, kissing

📷 Canon EOS R10
🔭 Canon RF 100-400mm
400mm, F9, 1/1600 s, ISO 3200, cropped
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#Photography #Pigeons

#photography #pigeons
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Buzzards (I presume) seen from my balcony. The local newspaper in Best had just printed an article that they were spotted in town and they were not wrong. I think I saw four flying together over my flat, I don't know whether that's normal behaviour.

Photos by me, re-use allowed with attribution (cc-by). Canon EOS R10, Canon RF 100-400, cropped.
#Photography #Bird #BirdOfPrey #Buzzard

A bird of prey sitting in a tree, calling out. Photo is a half length portrait.
A bird of prey sitting in a tree, giving side eye to the photographer
A bird of prey flying in the sky looking to the ground for prey
#photography #bird #birdofprey #buzzard
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I went to the Christmas market in Maastricht today. It was nice and cold and crowded. It gets dark quickly this close to midwinter.

Photos taken with Canon EOS R10 and Canon RF 28 F2.8. Cc-by.
#ChristmasMarket #Maastricht #Photography

A ferris wheel lights up a dark evening, many people enter the Christmas market through an entrance shaped like a present consisting of many small lights. In the background the ancient church is lit up by a red light.
Many people walk among the Christmas market stalls.
Christmassy figures in a decorative tower on top of a food stall with children playing in a patch of fake snow, and a Santa Claus figure.
A Santa Claus figure descends above the crowd looking at the Christmas market stalls.
#photography #maastricht #christmasmarket

Glow is also in Best this year, as last year, side-Glow as it were.

Canon EOS R10, RF-S 10-18mm. cc-by.
#Photography #Glow2024

Saint Odulphus, or his statue, stands guard in front of the church which is brightly illuminated with many colours for the Glow festival. The statue catches some of the light. The photograph looks steeply up, the wide angle exaggerating its prominence.
#photography #Glow2024 photography
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More of Glow in Best, with the Windmill, the cemetery and eyes at the train station. The main Glow festival is of course in Eindhoven.
#Glow2024
The windmill illuminated with playful colours, as part of the Glow festival.
In the dark, people walk over a footpath past the cemetery, itself hidden behind a green hedge. As part of the Glow festival the hedge lights up in bright changing colours and sound can be heard coming from that side. Or maybe it's not Glow, but the cemetery's ghosts acting up.
Two large glowing eyeballs for Glow, seen in context of the traditional illuminated tree art work.
#Glow2024
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I had also taken photos in Best some days earlier with my RF 50mm 1.8 lens. Nothing wrong with those results, but I haven't processed these to jpeg yet. The 50mm, on an APS-C camera, didn't allow me to capture whole buildings, yet the aperture difference of 1.8 vs 4.5-6.3 makes itself felt in the dark...

Glow Eindhoven 2024.

I tried to take some photos with my Canon EOS R10, with the RF 50mm 1.8 lens, some with the RF 28mm 2.8.
#Photography #Glow #GlowEindhoven #Glow2024

A stream of visitors of Glow walking into a tunnel, the entrance illuminated with red lights.
The bridge over the Dommel illuminated with led lights that change colour. At the moment they are green and red. In the dark, people walk by.
The ground is also illuminated while people are watching another light show. Only people's feet are shown, the ground has abstract shapes projected and drawn on it.
#photography #glow #GlowEindhoven #Glow2024
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For the second one of these two I needed the other lens (building too big, etc).
Sign with an arrow showing the route of Glow. The arrow points upwards. Above it are the word Glow and a glowing street lamp.
Illuminated building with a light show as part of Glow 2024.

Birds. Possibly a sparrowhawk and a pigeon.

Canon EOS R10 with Canon RF 100-400mm.
#Photography #Birds

Small predatory bird perched on a branch, looking for prey.
Pigeon perched on a small branch, looking back to see where that sound of the shutter is coming from.
#photography #birds photography

Walked in the woods near sunset. Found some trees.

Canon EOS R10, RF-S 10-18.
#Photography

A low sun shines through two trunks of a tree, creating a sun star. Only the leaves of a few young twigs coming out of the ground, are illuminated while most else is in the shadows, suggesting the sun star is shining only for them.
A tree's root misses the ground when it comes down a small hill. Several offshoots of the root go straight down into the ground, suggesting the tree has made a fence.
#photography photography
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Most rains may have been a while ago, but some paths are still flooded.
The paths and the woods are still flooded.
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The human eye is really much better at dynamic range than electronics is...

Bird. I don't know about brands.

Canon EOS R10, RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM, 400mm, F8, 1/1000s, ISO 640.
#Photography #Bird

Black, white, red bird sitting on a bare tree, looking like it's going to peck some wood
#photography #bird photography

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yep, Bixby is right. The red spot on the bottom differentiates them from the regular "bonte specht"

Taking an interest in local affairs. The Moon.

Canon EOS R10, RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM, 400mm, F8, 1/30s, ISO 100. Auto-focus subject tracking, tripod, 10s delay, manual exposure, daylight whitebalance, cropped.
#Photography #Moon

The Moon, almost full, in a black sky
#photography #moon photography

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There's only a small gap between the trees where the Moon could be seen from my balcony, so I had to set this up quickly. Otherwise I may have had more time to increase the sharpness, maybe with manual focus, maybe with remote control, maybe with faster shutter speeds and higher iso. I did take multiple exposures and some already had out-of-focus leaves smeared over the Moon. It's interesting how quickly heavenly bodies move seen through 400mm. Though I think some lower exposure shots might be better than this one, I still have to check on my pc. This was just cropped on camera and sent to my phone.

So if you tell the Canon EOS R10 auto-focus system to focus on Saturn it's like, ok, I've got it.

Admittedly, it's very vague and it's a tiny crop from the whole photo, it being barely a spec of light, but the photo is taken with a budget camera with a budget lens and it is Saturn and the auto-focus did acquire focus. No telescope involved.
#Photography #Saturn

The black night sky with a vague image of the planet Saturn where the rings are visible.
#photography #Saturn photography

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Specs: camera Canon EOS R10, lens RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM, at 400mm, F8, 1/20s, ISO 100, tripod, IS off, 10s delay, white balance daylight, manual mode, AF one-shot. Cropped heavily.
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Note that Saturn is visible with the naked eye currently during the night due to being close in its rotation and being opposite the sun. This doesn't happen often. The rings should be visible with any kind of magnification, but I had no luck with my binoculars.

My camera has earrings.
#Photography
Canon EOS R10 camera seemingly with earrings. Where normally the shoulder/neck carry strap is attached, now two round buttons are attached, unto which the strap can be clicked on. This allows the strap to be easily taken off when it would be in the way.
#photography photography
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I was photographing with my zoom lens for a while but now Mr Bird wants a word.

A jackdaw (presumably) looking angry (don't they always?) and looking as if it's walking towards me

(Cropped and scaled down for the socials. Canon EOS R10, Canon RF-S 18-150mm F3.5-6.3 IS STM @ 150mm, ISO 320, Av f/7.1, Tv 1/320, Fv priority mode, Servo AF, Animal Subject Tracking. Yes, I should have increased the shutter speed, I forgot.)
#Photography

#photography photography
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Was testing a new lens, the wide angle Canon RF 28mm f/2.8 STM. I like it. It's very flat. And I'm starting to learn that if you pay attention there doesn't need to be (much) distortion even for a wide angle lens. I.e. look at and not ignore the level meter on the display...

Photos below are unprocessed, except crop and downscale on my phone for posting. Taken on a Canon EOS R10, so there's a 1.6 crop factor (28mm has the equivalent field of view of 45mm).

Taken at the WW2 memorial at Kruispark in Best.
#Photography

A wooden structure with several vertical poles supports the leaves and branches of winding trees or plants. One winding trunk goes up next to a straight vertical pole in the foreground, being 'the odd one out'.
A small park centred around a wooden cross that is a WW2 memorial. Some red flowers are at its base. Trees, poles and a flagpost are also seen, forming several vertical lines. There's a comically small fence. Inscriptions on several plaques can not be read from the photo, but say among others that there's no point to war, in Latin.
#photography

Testing my new ultra wide angle lens. This is at 10mm (field of view equivalent to 16mm), the view is so much wider than by eye.

I wasn't paying much attention to the exposure, was also getting a bit late in the evening since I had to cycle around the forest to get to another entrance.
#Photography

Wide angle view of a heath, with some water, some sporadic trees but a denser treeline in the distance.
#photography photography
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I notice that as long as there aren't many shapes for which your brain has much reference (like rectangular buildings) an ultra wide angle lens can compose nice pictures, else the distortion can be obvious and sometimes distracting. Something to keep in mind.

I was checking out photo camera lenses since Canon has extended their range of RF lenses. I thought it would be interesting to get a macro lens, which was followed by me looking up 'what actually is a macro lens', which seems to include a minimum focusing distance of under 30cm. Turns out the two lenses I do have, which are not marked as macro lenses, are as good or better at macro than lenses especially marked as macro (30cm for the 50mm one, 17cm 12cm for the 18-150mm RF-S one). So I'm getting an ultra wide angle instead (10-18mm RF-S), because that is something I'm missing with buildings and stuff being too big or the streets next to them too narrow. A lens which btw will also out-macro the macros, focusing at 12cm I think 8cm in MF.
#Photography
#photography
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