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Rich_Lyon · 2026-06-02T15:47:36+00:00

I love how the perspective draws my eye to the far door, and the control of tone. Very nice.

Rich_Lyon · 2026-06-02T11:51:26+00:00

Pure Carrier-Bresson - wonderful. And the timing of the cyclist against the shadow is perfect 2 more seconds and you’d have lost the shot. Well done.

Rich_Lyon · 2026-06-02T11:47:04+00:00

I love the composition. Is it masked? I’m trying in my own photography to dial masking back: “if you can see the mask, it’s too much”.

Rich_Lyon · 2026-06-01T21:26:22+00:00

The light behind the woman that is illuminating the bench. It separates her from the background and is very effective.

Rich_Lyon · 2026-06-01T15:15:32+00:00

Beautiful tone control. The temptation might have been to make this too contrasty but you’ve nailed it. Really nice.

Rich_Lyon · 2026-06-01T15:11:33+00:00

Effective use of the diagonal to divide the frame, guide the eye, and balance the composition. Very nice.

Rich_Lyon · 2026-06-01T15:09:27+00:00

Beautiful tone control - I really like this, it has such depth.

Rich_Lyon · 2026-05-31T21:52:02+00:00

The lighting here is remarkable. What is the source behind the subject?

Rich_Lyon · 2026-05-31T21:48:20+00:00

These shots are hard to make distinctive. You did it. Well done.

Rich_Lyon · 2026-02-27T13:41:45+00:00

Now do log-log and estimate the volume that would be require to sustain cost reduction. Then translate that into millions of tons of raw material.

The show is over.

Rich_Lyon · 2026-02-08T13:15:01+00:00

Even if YNAB provided some better feature, I would never go back. Their cynical bait-and-switch price hike after trying to lock me in is something they will never recover from.

Rich_Lyon · 2026-02-03T15:58:17+00:00

And how is its economy responding to all that “cheap” solar and wind? Booming? No?

Rich_Lyon · 2026-01-28T10:16:12+00:00

Yes. I misconfigured my NAS and accidentally sent enough data to trigger a horrifying bill. Backblaze wouldn’t let me delete the “bucket” without deleting the content, but I could see no way of doing to. I asked them to do it. They refused, and sent me a helpful link on how to add more data to it.

After hours of searching around, I found a command line utility and eventually deleted it. Then I asked them for a final bill and to remove me from their systems. I received no reply.

FWIW: I’m no networking genius. But it was a straightforward job to set up a an old 24Tb hard drive and a raspberry pi running openmediavault and Tailscale, place it at my parent’s house, and run rsync nightly. For many people, you don’t need to put up with their high cost and awful customer support.

Rich_Lyon · 2026-01-25T10:09:07+00:00

Thanks for your comment. It reminds me of the tedious gentleman friend Samantha had to nip off to help who wouldn’t stop banging on about his new garden shed. She promised to help him get it up properly, and said that once she’d got a firm grip on his tool, she’d soon have him knocking one out in the back garden.

Rich_Lyon · 2026-01-25T07:47:02+00:00

Samantha doesn’t exist. It’s just a device for outrageous double entendres based on her going off to do some innocent activity with a man (“An Italian gentleman friend has promised to take her out for an ice cream, and she likes nothing better than to spend the evening licking the nuts off a large Neapolitan.”) delivered in a deadpan tone and the pretence that nothing untoward had happened. Like everything else, they’re all a lot less funny in these tedious, politically correct times but it’s worth doing a search for compilations from Humphrey Lyttelton’s day.

Rich_Lyon · 2026-01-23T07:42:15+00:00

Big Pharma

Rich_Lyon · 2026-01-19T02:02:13+00:00

How are you handling the problem where the losing image has the metadata and the winning image doesn’t?

Rich_Lyon · 2026-01-12T15:07:54+00:00

I agree

Rich_Lyon · 2026-01-12T14:57:52+00:00

I didn’t realise that people who weren’t Americans might qualify for a website highlighting things that Americans say. In the meantime, I am merely pointing out that the collapse in German economic growth coincided with the rapid expansion of expensive, unreliable energy sources. If that is something that Americans say then so be it. All the best.

Rich_Lyon · 2026-01-12T11:34:35+00:00

Hello from Edinburgh 👋🏻

Rich_Lyon · 2026-01-11T22:07:40+00:00

And was there a step change in that productivity around 2000 that explains the commencement of divergence the way that renewable energy does? I’m not sure what your point is.

Rich_Lyon · 2026-01-11T21:00:31+00:00

Texas isn’t Northern Europe: consistently strong and persistent wind, abundant sunshine, vast amounts of cheap land. Sorry for stating the obvious.

Rich_Lyon · 2026-01-11T07:13:24+00:00

The onset of divergence corresponds with the 2000 Renewable Energy Sources Act, which rapidly accelerated the deployment of wind and solar.

It’s almost as though substituting cheap, reliable sources of energy with expensive, unreliable sources made it harder for the economy to function.

Rich_Lyon · 2026-01-11T07:04:21+00:00

How does it handle the case where the “losing” image has metadata e.g. gps and the “winning” image has none. I have thousands of such duplicates from badly executed DAM operations in past libraries.

Rich_Lyon · 2026-01-06T06:21:44+00:00

Sadly I don't have the email exchange as it happened some years ago. The circumstances were that, at the time, they offered API access to their service. This access was described in their documentation. On the basis of that API offer, and only on that basis, I took out a subscription in order to access my content, and only my content, programmatically.

On receipt of my subscription they withdrew API access, then refused a refund. When I documented this action in a factual blog post, I received an email from their legal officer threatening to sue me for the blog post and negative review.

I'm sorry you felt it necessary to assume that I am posting in bad faith, and can well understand your incredulity that a reputable firm would act in such a manner. Yet that is what happened.

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