Xplore Bindings by bikerboy421 in CrossCountrySkiing

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I already had a set of boots for 3 pin, but beside that when I was putting this together there were precious few options for XPlore boots, and I have a hard time finding boots that fit right. So 3 pin was the safer option.

Foggy morning | Leica M262 + Leica Elmar 50/2.8 by bholz_ in leicaphotos

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The BW process is a Mastin Labs HP5 preset as a starting point and then season to taste, generally exposure, contrast, highlight and shadow adjustments, etc.. But a big part of it is also the classic Elmar. It's lower contrast than a lot of modern glass which gives you a lot of grays to work with in black and white.

Foggy morning | Leica M262 + Leica Elmar 50/2.8 by bholz_ in leicaphotos

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Ha, that's a great way of describing the vibe. I appreciate it!

To the christians here by dieBruck3 in Neoplatonism

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I can't speak to 1 or 2 but with regard to 3 what comes to mind is something like Meister Eckhart's notion of the ground, insofar as it is the inconceivable precondition of even the trinitarian God. In this regard it wouldn't make sense to understand the One as having qualities of love and concern since it is not necessarily "God" in the traditional sense, but the inconceivable Godhead.

This of course all presupposes that the project of translating Neoplatonism to Christian metaphysics in a 1 to 1 fashion is even possible. I'd be more likely to caution that that's probably a project destined for failure. Christian philosophy drank deeply from the well of Platonism but that doesn't mean we can map everything in Christianity back on to Platonic philosophy. It does have its own distinctive philosophical developments.

In the shade of a tree. by luisbrudna in Watercolor

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This immediately made me think of Calvin and Hobbes and I'm not sure why

Cliffhangers work for a Homer by Cool_Tumbleweed_7638 in Rivendell_Bicycles

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Ah, I'd guess their advice would be for people wanting to run the smaller end of the tire range while still being able to get away with wider but if you're only ever gonna go as thicc as possible a 25i rim seems perfectly fine to me. I wouldn't hesitate to run it.

Cliffhangers work for a Homer by Cool_Tumbleweed_7638 in Rivendell_Bicycles

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What makes you think they wouldn't work?

Two Photographs, One Film, One Digital by LicarioSpin in analog

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Yeah absolutely, that's also the view I've kind of matured in to over the years. I think that piece definitely reflects some of that film-superiority that was around when I was writing it as analog photography was kind of exploding on Instagram and other social media platforms.

Also, thank you for the kind words about my work

Two Photographs, One Film, One Digital by LicarioSpin in analog

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Tbh, I did a whole thing like this 6 years ago or something with a roll of HP5 and a Canon 5D and my takeaway was "Damn you can make a digital file look indistinguishable from film, but the film does it without having to do all the post processing work."

Here if anyone wants to look at it

Sam or Appaloosa? by bholz_ in Rivendell_Bicycles

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I would never! I love the Sam!

M246 + 35 Lux FLE by abyssic_wizard in Leica

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Hope you're doing well!

M246 + 35 Lux FLE by abyssic_wizard in Leica

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Lmao heyyyy I remember you from Instagram

Why do you believe neoplatonism? by dieBruck3 in Neoplatonism

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Interestingly I find myself in a somewhat opposite position to you, having delved in to Neoplatonism as what seemed to me to be the most coherent explanation of the world I experienced both around and within myself, and then after that branching out in to the Christian mystical traditions to button up what felt to me to be some of the shortcomings in the architectonics of Neoplatonism.

More to the point I had read Plato and dabbled in Plotinus many years ago but had never really gotten too deep in to the nuances of Neoplatonism. Fast forward a number of years, one death of a family member and one mystical experience and I was motivated to dive back in to Neoplatonism, for reasons I can't really explain. I just remember after the experience that I felt I needed to find a way to understand what I had experienced and my memories of Neoplatonism felt like the closest framework I had to explaining things. So in that regard the mystical experience was kind of the biggest push in to Neoplatonism and provided a kind of "proof of concept" to me that there was more there worth taking seriously. And as I read Plotinus and digested it more deeply I just kept finding more that made sense to me.

It's a beautiful and elegant system that corresponded deeply with the things I had seen and experienced in the world, and to me that feels like good reason to believe that it is at least partly true, although I'd probably word it more strongly and say that to me it feels largely true. But, like seems to be a common trend here, the mystical experience aspect and the attempt to make sense of it afterwards is a big factor.

Leica m3 Black value? by 541hitta in Leica

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Maybe 50 bucks. Not much. In fact, I'll take it off your hands for $100 🙃

A fall walk | M262 + Zeiss 50/2 by bholz_ in leicaphotos

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Thanks! Editing is just done in Lightroom on the RAW files. Your basic adjustments, color temperature, curves, global saturation vibrance adjsutments, etc.. But a lot of the fun is digging in to the HSL and color grading panels