#FotoDerWoche vom Neckar in Esslingen.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/05/photo-of-the-week-neckar-esslingen/

Photo of the week: Neckar, Esslingen
Einer von vielen Schnappschüssen von der Pliensaubrücke - je nach Licht- und Wolkenverhältnissen kann der Neckar ganz fotogen sein. Oder nach langweiligem Kanal aussehen. Besonders positiv: wenn ein Vogel unbedingt mit aufs Bild will, wie hier.

Satellite snaps amazing 36th birthday pic of Hubble Space Telescope (photo) | Space https://www.space.com/astronomy/hubble-space-telescope/satellite-snaps-amazing-36th-birthday-pic-of-hubble-space-telescope-photo

Satellite snaps amazing 36th birthday pic of Hubble Space Telescope (photo)
It's a rare treat to see Hubble up close.

30 years ago these days comet #Hyakutake amazed in the northern skies - even close to Polaris one day - with a close approach to Earth and a super-long bright plasma tail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6uCHBqfZlk is a 15-min. excerpt from a documentary (I actually have the VHS cassette ...) about creating fantastic timelapse sequences of the latter from images shot on film. See also https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1629899344915003 and https://www.facebook.com/richard.berry.777/posts/pfbid0xQ9uVTK9fKeeuFeCedm1U82dYPPWbnJiuz8bVEt5UiE2QFEgn7GWfjNueZpjxCmXl and https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=26701568342780915 and https://www.facebook.com/don.davis1/posts/pfbid02YeuQ39p4igwG5GCk34iCSxwEevdpUKkCMBeF5QA7TBdfya3YuQ8sSsGnNUuxNFgGl for other still images.

Street photo I took last Friday in front of the law school with in prototype summer phase
#photo #photography #cornell

@… @… hmm, yeah. I did change that to 16:9 (and have experimented with both Photo and Movie modes on the camera, though that setting is specific to Photo mode)

My random thought of the day: do folks who do #perineum #sunning have a plan for getting those hard-to-see areas checked for suspicious moles?
On a related note, are there any #SitcomWriters on Fedi…

How it started / how it's going
(Climbed Ben Ledi, a Scottish mountain that is not a Monro, fortunately the top was above the fog and clouds!)
#Scotland #BenLedi #Hiking

Mundane Things V 🌀
普通物件 V 🌀
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography

Last.fm users, give this one a vote (upper left) - https://support.last.fm/t/limit-the-number-of-artist-photo-uploads/118521
@…@…

Limit the number of artist photo uploads
As long as multiple artists share the same page then photo battles are always going to part of LastFM but, more and more, I'm seeing people simply flood the photo section with dozens of images in an attempt to drown out any possible alternatives. I propose limiting users to ONE image upload per artist. Pages don't need 100+ images, all uploaded by the same 2-3 people.

World Press Photo of the Year captures US immigration arrest - DutchNews.nl
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/04/world-press-photo-of-the-year-captures-us-immigration-arrest/

The mediocrity of well-paid people whose only job is to make the line go up is really something to behold.
#KLM #inspirationalUpsellHeader #inspirationalUpsellToggle…

Waffles, The Hungry :neocat_knife:

Weekend Reads
* Data centers in Utah
https://ricci.pckt.blog/datacenters-in-utah-a-photo-essay-gehy55y
* Encrypted DNS at OARC 46
…

Datacenters in Utah: A Photo Essay - Rob Ricci's Writings
There's a lot of stuff going around about datacenters, so I've spent some time in the last week visiting some of the ones in northern Utah. I started with a qui...

The Swifts are back from the South! 5 days earlier than before climate change started to accelerate here.
Photo from Wikipedia; they were flying really high ;)

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116134660420505516
So I grew up somewhere never needing an ID for anything, other than a driving license when I was very occasionally driving a car. I wasn’t carrying an ID every day until I was in my 30s.
It’s a relatively new thing that travel, buying certain things, alcohol consumption etc requires a photo ID.
All of this surveillance and privacy-invasive shit (make people carry around the address where they live, wtf?) has been pressed into existence to “protect the children” and in the name of “fighting criminals”.
It’s all bullshit and we should end requiring it.

After The Storm
(Lone Ranch Beach, Oregon, 2019)
#MeerMittwoch #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite

#toadsOfMastodon
A toad in my backyard. Not sure why it’s here. It’s a long way from any body of water. May 2026.

When Miami Beach activist
Donna Nevel was leafleting for Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) last year at one of the biggest art fairs in the country,
she was shocked to see a billboard-bearing truck emblazoned with her name and photo, along with the words “Jew hater.”
Now, JVP is alleging that Miami Beach City Commissioner David Suarez spent $4,000 of his own money on three billboard trucks to target Nevel and another outspoken JVP member as well as the local chapter of the organi…

South Florida Elected Official Targets 2 Constituents Who Are JVP Activists
Jewish Voice for Peace says a city commissioner personally spent $4,000 on billboard trucks targeting local activists.

Zum heutigen #FotoVorschlag 'Weite' möchte ich folgendes beitragen:
https://photo.dresden.network/p/der_raddler/824711838059139166

der_raddler (@der_raddler@photo.dresden.network)
#Seebrücke #Sellin shot with my ONDU Multiformat pinhole camera on #imago320 from Ars-imago Switzerland! #pinhole #pinholephotography #ondu #Rügen #vacation #stillshootfilm #filmisnotdead #analog #analogphotography #blackandwhite #Blackandwhitephotography #longexposure

Visiting the first stop on my Intel silicon grand tour today, pics coming soon.
This isn't like a single ongoing road trip, it may be a while before I get to the next one. But I've been sitting on the chipset for long enough I need to get around to the photo op.

And we’re on! Welcome address done, and Anne Pasek kicks us off with a keynote on a world after the #AI bubble. @aepa@Aepasek@scholar.social 🏆
How to give justice to the material troubles that arise once data center infrastructure moves on? What do our fears & desires do?
We are given zines!!

Marie Hurabiell is a transphobe, xenophobe, and racist, but the silver lining of her running for Congress is that it got the Standard to publish this flyer.
Activists handed this out at a protest outside her org's gala, highlighting both Hurabiell's bigoted comments and her ties to Mayor Denim Dan Lurie. More people should know!

‘An actual moderate’: Lurie ally and former Trump appointee enters SF congressional race
Marie Hurabiell, director of the moderate group ConnectedSF, aims to appeal to centrist and right-leaning voters.

Is it a bird? Is a plane?
It's a pride kite! 🏳️‍🌈🪁
sowwy for howwible photo, shitty phone camera kekw

Rah Merde #bd

Hermann - Bibliographie, BD, photo, biographie
Tout sur l'auteur BD Hermann : biographie, bibliographie

Viral Alvin Kamara-Cowboys Photo Raises Question: Is Dallas Realistic Fit? https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/viral-alvin-kamara-cowboys-photo-raises-question-dallas-realistic-fit

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
If you are a filter feeder how to you deal with a gummed up feeding mechanism? Cladoceran zooplankton have a post abdominal claw with a sharp pointed tip which acts as a combination toothpick and anchor to clear out the feeding groove of the carapace. Some groups also grasp algal filaments or plants with it. These claws are distinctive to species based on the si…

Wind turbine blade being transported inland from the harbour. Only way to do it without knocking down all the buildings in town is to carry them *vertically*. This is in Wick, in Caithness.
(the seagulls seem quite intrigued by this big white wing!) [photo by Alan Hendry]

I anticipated the maid cafe ran by the Cornell Anime Club that I drove from ITHACON to cover it
#photo #photography #cornell

In the previous post, I described the Seasons project: a #timelapse of hundreds of pictures taken from nearly the same viewpoint over the years. The hardest challenge wasn’t taking the pictures or assembling them, but aligning them.
I’m a human being, not a tripod. The position changes ever so slightly, and so does the exact angle.
Alignment is the process of warping each photo so it…

The Drivers of the Decline in Supermassive Black Hole Growth at z < 2: #BlackHoles Hit the Brakes on Growth: https://chandra.si.edu/press/26_releases/press_032426.html / https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/bhgrowth/ -> Chandra Explains Why Black Hole Growth Slowed Since Cosmic Noon: https://chandra.si.edu/blog/node/954

I've been reading about Eddie Henderson. Best known from Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band (1970-73), he's played trumpet and flugelhorn with seemingly everyone (Pharoah Sanders, Norman Connors, Elvin Jones, Johnny Griffin, McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, Kenny Barron, Joe Chambers, Max Roach, Jackie McClean, Dexter Gordon, Roy Haynes, etc), and he's still performing. He's also a physician (!) who has practiced general medicine and psychiatry. He did his residency while he w…

I've just released my second solo album in my Transits of Mars electronic music project.
The second album from Transits of Mars brings together eight instrumental tracks inspired by the theme of the digital humanities. Shimmering arpeggios, ethereal synths, pulsing basses and dynamic beats combine into a digital texture that is up-to-date but recalls the rich history of electronic music since the 1970s.
Enjoy!

Today involved tree pruning in the morning (photo below, dog for scale), followed by drive up to Carrickfergus in the Land Rover (missus in the BMW) to start clearing out my late father in law's workshop. After 8 years, my mother-in-law finally decided it was time.
TIL: Wood turning lathes are *heavy*, and dismantling table-saws takes forever.
Tomorrow will involve chainsawing, assuming I can still move by then.

Ecological Balance and the Sacred Landscape of Senjōgahara.
The third essay on our trip to Japan. What I thought would be a quick photo essay turned into another historical investigation into Japanese religion and life out of balance there and here. (see below).

My grandad has a ton of old papers from his field lying around and they're so beautiful

First we're going for an Indonesian lunch, then we go to an exhibition of James Webb photo's #niceday

yes cats

How it started / how it’s going
I love English ivy, but I dislike chaos. For what was supposed to be a rainy day, at least I got something accomplished. And the Comcast guy won’t start cursing next time he comes around…
#garden #greenhouse

flickr_aminer: Flickr social graph
This network contains the social graph of flickr, a popular photo sharing network for users to upload photos and share photos, where a directed edge (i,j) means that user i follows user j.
This network has 214626 nodes and 9114557 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://

Great photos from the Rest of World's 2026 Photo Contest! Of course given that I've been monitoring Low Earth Orbit ( #LEO) solutions for #InternetAccess, I was intrigued that the winning photo showed the contrast between a train of

Winners of the 2026 Photo Contest
Our 6 winning images stood out from hundreds of entries showcasing technology around the world

Anthropic started requiring government-issued photo IDs and selfies from some users to prevent access from US adversaries like China, Russia, and North Korea (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropics-id-verifi…

Anthropic’s ID Verification Imperils Chinese Founders
Anthropic has quietly flourished in China thanks to businesses—including big tech firms and startups—circumventing Anthropic’s official restrictions on usage. That may soon change.Anthropic last week started requiring some customers to provide a government-issued photo ID and an image of ...

The vOICe for Android 2.82 is out! It bundles two monocular AI depth models in a trade-off between visual detail and CPU load: toggle one or the other by pressing key 'h' ("good model") or capital 'H' ("best model", higher CPU load) via the soft keyboard https://play.google.com/stor…

hmmm - Ob ich da mal hingehen will?
#photography

Heute vor 73 Jahren: Am 25. Mai 1953 wurde im Rahmen der Upshot-Knothole-Testserie die #Atomkanone M65, auch bekannt als Atomic Annie, auf dem Nevada Testgelände erfolgreich getestet. Dieses US Artilleriegeschütz feuerte als erstes und einziges eine nukleare Granate ab.

Famous Robot R2-D2 at ITHACON today which was such a fun show of which I have many more shots to develop
#photo #photography #ithacon

congrats to this dude for making a quick buck

#Bloomscrolling #flowers #naturephotography
A yellow salsify blooming. May 2026

Translucent Cells
A month ago the dry beech leaves from last year were still hanging on, the backlight revealing their fine details... (Should have used a macro, but only had the 400mm with me)
#NaturePhotography #MacroPhotography

#FotoDerWoche mit dem pünktlich zu Frühlingsbeginn blühendem Pflaumenbaum.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/03/photo-of-the-week-plum-flower-i/

Photo of the week: Plum flower I
Ein paar Tage März, und schon blüht alles. Passend zur gestrigen Tagundnachtgleiche (und damit dem eigentlichen Frühlingsanfang) hat sich auch der Pflaumenbaum im Garten in Schale geworfen. Birne und Kirsche sehen so aus, als wollten sie in ein paar Tagen folgen. Und ehrlich gesagt: das wurde auch Z

meow meow meow :3

We are about to start #BeforeRuins at Ruhr-University Bochum #RUB. Imagine a very excited team! And some Easter eggs. @…
All the key programme info, including the …

The little device I just bought for the office network firewall. I'll probably use pfSense since I'm already very familiar with it... Although I'm tempted to switch to OPNSense.

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
This is likely Earth's most common metazoan (animal). Meet Oithona similis, a small predatory, cyclopoid copepod. It is highly tolerant of temperature and salinity ranges, having a cosmopolitan distribution within every ocean, from poles to tropics, and is common in the epi to mesopelagic zones. Densities range from hundreds to several thousand per m³ of wat…

10 years #Prince

Class Practices Dance Moves from 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑣𝑒! at ITHACON today: I'll head back tomorrow and soon have more normal shots taken with the 70-200mm I took day
#photo #photography #cosplay

Maintenant, je les vois partout. 😶‍🌫️
#AngineDePoitrine #Photography

I would get up, but I have a dog on me. #greatdane

Urban Demons VII 👻
城市鬼魂 VII 👻
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 Plus, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite

#caturday

Abstract Ancient Oaks
(spotted during yesterday's evening hike, hoping to turn this into a series...)
#NaturePhotography #Tree #Abstract

Exploring the area before HARRIS with a bunch of cool folks.
Not every day you get to look *down* on a tower crane after climbing a ridiculous number of stairs.

☥️

I feel like I am missing my SLA to turn around portraits so it is a guilty pleasure to share a #sliceoflife of which I will say two things: (1) I told the clerk at the 7-11 that "I didn't know she was still around" and (2) the photo is above the dignity of the object because I took it with a huge lens

Feuersalamanderkinder ...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tillwe/55292671308/in/photostream/
(Photo zeigt drei Feuersalamanderlarven in einem Tümpel)

My Nakamichi tape deck died, and so I got a replacement belt and idler wheel tire for it. That didn't fix it. Internet searches suggested that corrosion in the cam motor was the most likely culprit.
Today I took it apart, opened up the cam motor, used a wire brush Dremel attachment and some Deoxit, and got it cleaned up. Put it all back together and it actually works! It was a frustrating process, with lots of tiny little parts, but gosh it's nice to have a functioning ta…

The strangest thing for me about going to a comic book convention or a maid cafe is explaining that I would like exactly the same if you meet me on an ordinary day #summerphaseresearchanddevelopment
#photo

I don’t do #TikTok but I endorse this.
#Scientology

Nvidia unveils DLSS 5, which uses a real-time neural rendering model to add photorealistic lighting to game frames, arriving this fall to RTX 50-series GPUs (Richard Leadbetter/Digital Foundry)
https://www.digitalfoundry.net/features/nv

Nvidia's new DLSS 5 Brings Photo-Realistic Lighting To RTX 50-Series
A massive technological leap for graphics - and we've been hands-on with four games.

#FotoDerWoche mit einem frühlingshaften Weihnachtskaktus.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/04/photo-of-the-week-pink-flower-ii/

Photo of the week: Pink flower - II
Aus Gründen, die mit Koa- beginnen und nichts mit in Australien lebenden, Eukalyptus fressenden Beutelbären zu tun haben, war die letzte Woche samt Wochenende bei mir sehr arbeitsintensiv. Drückt die Daumen, dass sich der Einsatz lohnt und am Schluss ein gutes Ergebnis herauskommt. Jedenfalls: deswe

Preparing the digital negative & letting it dry before tonight's printing session...
(Already inverted the photo to better see the inverted image...)
#AltProcess #DigitalNegative #Kallitype

I missed the chance this year because I was busy with other stuff.
But next year I need to post a photo on 4/20 of me with some dandelions, some blackberry brambles, and maybe a sprig of scotch broom.

Whatever eagerly awaited #Kreutz #comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) is up to - see also https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/118409957 and https://nitter.net/JAtanackov/status/2035718257060036738 and https://scicomm.xyz/@qicheng@cometary.org/116262858373488354 - less than two weeks from perihelion, it has developed a long plasma tail now: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=25816609931372735 (Rhemann & Jäger yesterday with a 12 inch telescope; full and detail).

You've already eaten, kitty!

:angery:

For #MountainMonday I share a #photo from a hike a while ago. It was one of those situations: I didn't expect a good shot - but after all, I like this one pretty much
#Winter

#maudlinMaunderings of a doddering fool. Caveat lector.
Hey, it’s been a while. Thanks for stopping by.
Here’s a mundane thing I discovered about my body tonight. Totally SFW. PG. I’m old and arthritic. I’m used to all the various aches and pains that are either constant or intermittent. IIWIS… (1/7)

Pair dressed for much worse weather than we got last Saturday at the Fairy Fest
#photo #photography #fairyfestival

Behold, The Imposing Frieder (2053m).
(Picture from yesterday, confirming that spring is not quite evenly distributed just yet...)
#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography #Alps

I sooo often don't have photos of the summit cross when I go to the #mountains . Don't ask me why. Maybe because I usually have people in the photo?
It was the same that day: I almost left without that photo when I stepped over the flowers and thought that they might be a cool foreground for the summit. And by focusing on the flowers and blurring the people, I also don't hav…

#throwbackThursday
My family in 1955.

#FotoDerWoche mit Stuttgarter 3D-Architektur.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/05/photo-of-the-week-pariser-platz-stuttgart/

Photo of the week: Pariser Platz, Stuttgart
Ein Nebeneffekt der Koalitionsverhandlungen (die in der Sparkassenakademie am Pariser Platz stattfanden): ich konnte den einen oder anderen Blick auf das "Europaviertel" hinter dem Stuttgarter Hauptbahnhof werfen - sonst komme ich da nicht so oft vorbei. Viel moderne Architektur, viel verbaute Fläch

Master of disguise

'Wolken' #FotoVorschlag 'Clouds'
I chose this one becasue without clouds, this photo wouldn't have been possible.
The photo came totally unplanned. I just walked a mountain in winter with my photo-backpack. I was looking for a completely different spot when I turned around and saw that scene in the distance. -- Knowing it wouldn't last for long, I suddenl…

Woman in Sunflower hat inside Dewitt mall at Ithaca Fairy Festival last Saturday
#photo #photography #portrait

#FotoDerWoche mit schwarzer Katze.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/03/photo-of-the-week-nox-thru-the-window/

Photo of the week: Nox thru the window
Unsere Katze Nox bringt - wie wohl alle Katzen - einige Eigenheiten mit. Eine davon ist die, dass sie ihre höchstprivate Katzenklappe nur im Notfall verwenden mag, um das Haus zu verlassen, und eigentlich nie, um das Haus zu betreten. Statt dessen wartet sie mehr oder weniger geduldig (und zunehmend

Man with mushroom hat indoors in Dewitt Mall for yesterday's Ithaca Fairy Festival
#photo #photography #portrait

Three visitors to last Saturday's Fairy Fest stand in front of what used to be the Masonic Temple
#photo #photography #cosplay

I took a break from posting photos to get ready for the Fairy Festival last Saturday where i saw my first crocuses of the year in a planter by the public library
#photo #photography #flowers

Woman with short white hair and iridescent wings is looking away from me and towards a woman with blonde hair wearing a headband and blue jacket with three thin white lines on the sleeve
#photo #photography #portrait

Face painting at the 2026 Fairy Fest -- more photos from this event can be found on my Behance album #photo

Runner in the Thom B Trail Races wears a shirt from the last race I photographed
#photo #photography #sports #forestfriday

Blue 1 trail descends through thicket towards the parking area in Shindagin Hollow State Forest
#photo #photography #forestfriday

Chronologically the last Sakura portrait of the year: I hopped off the bus at the Vet school and hiked towards Rhodes and caught these two
#photo #photography #ithaca

For the Earth Day festival on the Ithaca Commons I got groups out from behind their tables for group portraits like this group promoting EVs
#photo #photography #groupportrait

Men working the Sierra Club and Cooperative Extension Booths this Saturday for #earthday
#photo #photography

Last Wednesday I got a shot of the 𝐿𝑒𝑡'𝑠 𝑀𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 group led by Dr. Rajesh Bhaskaran of the Engineering school under the cherry trees outside Anabel Taylor Hall
#photo #photography #cornell

Usually I say things like "I play a character to do street photography" but my foxes were whispering to me this week and I found myself saying things like "I learned to disguise myself as a human 2.5 years ago" and "I'm here to save y'all from yourselves" -- this lady holds one of my tokens!
#photo

I was feeling caffeine deprived but not foxy when this snow squall hit but I figured "other people will believe in me if even if I don't" (like my hero Peter Parker!) and sure enough I ran into these two between the Rhodes Hall loading dock and the 7-11; maybe the last time this year I went out in my winter phase
#photo

A break from portraits for the kind of #bloomscrolling Y'all seem to like. A #9mm view of a daffodil bed by Barnes Hall
#photo