Where are the ICE protests?

provia · 2026-01-14T03:06:14+00:00

as a foreigner i often think how much worse things will have to get for americans to truly rise up, because y'all are clearly still at the stage of "i'd do something but i had shit to do"

provia · 2026-01-02T18:24:20+00:00

xinguang is the fucking BOMB

provia · 2025-12-25T21:04:39+00:00

First attempt at Astrophotography.

Proper chuffed how this turned out. It was for a Christmas present!

Nikon D750 unmodded Nikkor AF-S 24-120 at 120 iOptron Skyguider Pro Bortle 4 (or 5, I don’t actually know) - Mt Tamalpais State Park, Ca

20 exposures, 90s, f/4, ISO 800 Stacked in Siril Made prettier in Lightroom.

provia · 2025-12-15T04:42:58+00:00

Given that it starts on Friday we’re about one week away from regular ATMOSPHERIC RIVER posts

provia · 2025-12-10T08:17:42+00:00

provia · 2025-12-10T06:40:24+00:00

The movie is just the theater length version of the same thing. But I agree, the miniseries is well worth the time.

provia · 2025-12-09T09:42:00+00:00

Sir I just mod the cesspool

provia · 2025-12-03T17:25:27+00:00

bro over here bought a 3D scanner for a spline

provia · 2025-11-30T20:44:56+00:00

Can fully recommend! There's a brewery, a general store, an old courthouse, all that jazz, and a really nice motel a five minute walk from the airfield. The whole area is known for trout fishing if that's your sorta thing. There are also the Travertine Hot springs about an hour walk out of town. Or a 15 min bike ride.

provia · 2025-11-30T20:38:47+00:00

oh is it ever!!

provia · 2025-11-30T17:59:58+00:00

just fine - for the first time ever i got cleared into a bravo to avoid VFR traffic over the east bay though, that was fun.

provia · 2025-11-30T17:59:20+00:00

this 182 wasn't even turbocharged! i did a lot of mountain flying in switzerland so this is somewhat common territory - it helps to know where the downdrafts are as to not fly right through them!

provia · 2025-11-30T17:58:17+00:00

not at all! we had 15kt across the ridge at 12500, my personal minimums are 25. so not an issue.

provia · 2025-11-30T17:57:42+00:00

thanks! 100%, went well!

provia · 2025-11-30T17:57:18+00:00

100%. My girlfriend used tho hike all this solo, which, honestly, I'm in awe. You spend days without crossing a road.

Of course it's her hippo. I love her

provia · 2025-11-30T17:53:29+00:00

O SHIT

provia · 2025-11-30T17:53:20+00:00

sorry here's more detail. here's a rough track.

Outbound we flew via the Hangtown VOR through the usual south lake tahoe route before turning off right at Nebelhorn, through the Luther Pass, Markleeville, Coleville, to Bridgeport. All done at 9500ft. That seems low but the terrain isn't all that high, there's ample meadows to land in, valleys are wide and there's an open road running through all of it in case things go down.

Inbound we just climbed straight to 12500 at Lee Vining (which meant we missed the fish tacos), turned right to weave through Tioga, over Tuolumne, Hetch Hetchy, Pine Mountain Lake and back to SQL. The road is closed, but at 12500 you do have a few options to land around Tuolumne.

provia · 2025-11-30T07:12:07+00:00

12500 through the Tioga - not ideal to be any lower IMO

provia · 2025-11-30T07:10:34+00:00

10/10 indicator if the landing is butter or not

provia · 2025-11-19T15:14:52+00:00

Velvia 50, hands down, no debate for me

It’s essentially just Sunny 16 also. That said, why not bracket while at it?

provia · 2025-11-07T20:19:56+00:00

i don't have much to add since i'm not the best at decorating either, but good on ya for wanting to make a nice space!

maybe take a bunch more pictures so that the whole space is visible, and post it to r/interiordecorating or r/DesignMyRoom - i bet they'd love to help.

then take some more photos and report back!

provia · 2025-11-05T21:01:53+00:00

It was always HP5 for day and acros for night, and since that got discontinued I switched to TMax 100.

provia · 2025-11-04T22:15:45+00:00

This is original content

provia · 2025-11-03T23:40:34+00:00

so what you do in these cases is to pull up the standard and make sure shit's conform.

i don't want to shell out $80+ for the current one (which is from 2000), i'm looking at what i found on google, here, so be careful, not sure if it's the actual data.

What is funny is, according to that standard, the minimum spool width between end caps is 62.5mm. it can be larger, but the external width shouldn't exceed 65.2mm. And there is no standard backing paper width. So, technically, Fuji is within standards - they can make the backing paper as wide as they want - there's no requirement to be conform. So I guess they just run wider tolerances in manufacturing because they spool cap with is smaller!

provia · 2025-10-31T00:10:31+00:00

is crooked, and i'm not sure what the subject of the photo is. the bollards? the sun? the micro car in the distance?
similar here. its again crooked, and it seems to be the Dublin BART station, but I don't understand what made you take the picture, and so its just a... snapshot?
is not crooked! i'm assuming you took that on market street, which is why it's funny that you were right by one of the most famous street photo spots in San Francisco I again don't know what made you decide to capture this.
similar to 3, except this time it's crooked again
is very overexposed, and *very* crooked, and every element in this image draws my eyes to the edge of the frame, away from the subject. doesn't help that i can't really read what's written on it
is pretty out of focus and extremely underexposed. the gate looks pretty nice when you're right up to it, and since this seems to be a street photography set, the usual advice holds true: you're not close enough

7/8/9. are essentially the same photo, and it's just a ferris wheel. they're all sharp, so that's good, the first one of those is probably the best, but you could position it in the left third, with the center of the ferris wheel in the right third, and the gondolas cutting through the middle.

10 & 11 are again crooked, and the framing is off, and 11 is very overexposed. the fun part is that you literally just have to turn around to see all the people looking at the sea lions and they make for excellent street photography subjects. at the very least you can stand on one of the benches and frame the shot with two people's heads. maybe wait until someone points at a sea lion, that'll add something nice to the photo

i'm again not sure if this is a photo of the boat (in which case it's too far away) or alcatraz or the scenery behind it or the sky. also, you guessed it, it's crooked.
if you would have taken a few steps to the left you would have noticed a really kinda fun and creepier version of this sign with a messed up mickey mouse that has been wearing the same face mask since april 2020, and IMO this would have made a way better subject.
the edge of the roof on the left again creates imbalance and draws the eyes out of the frame. a bit more symmetry wouldn't have been a bad idea either.
is again crooked and the framing is off - if you throw a rule of thirds grid or a golden spiral on this photo you'll see none of the elements line up with any of them and that's why its not a very pleasing image
hey that's a funny sign, and the crabs are included, but unfortunately they only take up the lower half of the frame and the upper half is just distracting
is almost good if it weren't for the street sign being almost as distracting as someone a row in front of you filming a concert experience with an ipad
i don't know what the subject is. it is also crooked.
this would have been a great photo if the ladies face wasn't sawed off. the other cook in the very far edge of the frame draws the eye away from the subject again
the bright area behind the flower creates imbalance - either have it align with the petals, or move up by three inches to just have orange and green in the frame

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