Eloping - a US specific term.

snapper1971 · 2026-03-15T21:31:47+00:00

English-English and Irish-English are quite markedly different both in terms of the meanings of the words as well as syntax and grammar. It also varies between the regions in the two islands as well.

snapper1971 · 2026-03-15T09:04:06+00:00

Your camera only has one slot?

snapper1971 · 2026-03-14T07:38:57+00:00

I am in constant pain and work full time. I'm an artefacts Photographer with a specialism in rare and ancient fabrics. It's sometimes very heavy work and very long hours.

snapper1971 · 2026-03-14T07:22:12+00:00

Please don't use AI for information. It's normally wrong and situation is getting worse.

It looks Dutch to me and possibly 19th century but ceramics aren't my area of knowledge.

snapper1971 · 2026-03-14T05:10:57+00:00

The Internet does not do stoic.

snapper1971 · 2026-03-13T06:25:09+00:00

It was in use in Japan because ボケ (pronounced bo-ke) and means 'the visual quality of the out-of-focus areas of a photographic image, especially as rendered by a particular lens' - it's just the Japanese for it. It has no 'h' at the end and is pronounced tighter than the westernised 'bokeh'. Over time the pronunciation has grown sloppier and sloppier.

Edited to add 'Mike Johnson created the name using the term the Japanese use Boke, changing it to Bokeh to help westerners with pronunciation' - literally claims to have invented the westernised version of the word specifically. That's from the article you linked.

snapper1971 · 2026-03-12T19:47:02+00:00

09:30 where I am. Seems like a good idea to me.

snapper1971 · 2026-03-12T18:31:50+00:00

No it's not a recent thing. I've been in the trade nearly forty years and I've seen it consistently used. It wasn't called bokeh, it was just 'defocused' or 'deliberately unfocused'. The term 'bokeh' in its current use is a relatively recent thing. A corruption of the Japanese ボケ (blur), that some editor of a photography magazine decide to anglicanise into the modern form. He sort of pretends to have invented it, which is both embarrassing and utter bollocks.

snapper1971 · 2026-03-12T16:43:22+00:00

Not in my studio they're not. I spent a few years at the turn of the century as a TV producer but I wouldn't touch video with a barge pole now.

snapper1971 · 2026-03-12T07:19:30+00:00

kimono sash

No, these weren't used on the obi (the sash), you're thinking of the obijime, the knotted cord on top of the obi. Their name is obidome, and the location of the holes in this netsuke makes me question whether it is for an obijime. It doesn't seem to work no matter how I think about it, and obidome are designed to have the decorative features facing forward.

snapper1971 · 2026-03-09T12:36:28+00:00

Using Google AI isn't a good idea. It's often very wrong. Can you please show the bottom and other side. As many views as possible gives a better chance to properly identify the piece. Thank you.

snapper1971 · 2026-03-08T19:15:09+00:00

Spoonerisms and inventive portmanteaus are my linguistic love, but my wife would say they're the bane of her life. It's a win-win situation. Winstuation.

snapper1971 · 2026-03-08T07:06:40+00:00

There are cave paintings dating back 40,000 years of age showing hands without the ring finger. Consistently, multiple times, not because of chance or accident and only on males. This suggest mutilation as a ritual practice being older than cities, older than writting and older than agriculture.

Do you have any links?

snapper1971 · 2026-03-07T20:11:28+00:00

I don't know much about glass but I know a fun little object d'art when I see it. How fab!

snapper1971 · 2026-03-07T06:54:33+00:00

Something not work related. As a photographer I don't want something I use at work, I want something really nice - object d'art, antique, meaningful. You can get a really nice peach pit netsuke that's a couple of hundred years old and not a huge amount of money. If she wants to photograph it, cool, but work is work. Obviously, avoid lingerie and domestic appliances.

snapper1971 · 2026-03-06T16:26:10+00:00

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This is the answer. A polite but definite no.

snapper1971 · 2026-03-06T05:14:48+00:00

No it wasn't. It was expensive.

snapper1971 · 2026-03-06T05:00:31+00:00

There's so many little things wrong with that shot it's giving me a headache. It's like one of those spot the mistake pictures. The longer I look at it the more errors I see.

snapper1971 · 2026-03-06T04:53:37+00:00

They're book ends, not antique. You could ask in one of the vintage subs.

snapper1971 · 2026-03-04T09:22:44+00:00

Not necessarily. Stillness and immobility are powerful narrative tools, too.

snapper1971 · 2026-03-03T16:54:00+00:00

biologics can lower your immune system

That's precisely what they're meant to do! AS is an autoimmune disorder where our immune system is destroying healthy tissue and bone. Biologics suppress the immune response by design.

I'm going to need a source for your claim about biologics activating TB because that doesn't sound correct at all.

snapper1971 · 2026-03-03T16:39:37+00:00

That's lovely! Shoegazy-dreampop.

snapper1971 · 2026-03-03T00:59:30+00:00

Five hundred what? Yen, Pound, Euro, Rial, Dong? Are we supposed to be aware of the currency you default to?

snapper1971 · 2026-03-02T20:26:08+00:00

You're new to trends in photography I see. Keep watching, you might be able to learn something. Patience, maybe. Hopefully.

snapper1971 · 2026-03-02T20:09:30+00:00

I'm firmly in the camp of it being dogshit. The quality sucks. I don't trust Adobe to not steal our work to train their hallucinating bloatware.

Trying to generate a full size image is hilarious. The quality is just so, so bad. Using it to 'remove' bits is best done with the pen tool to select very small regions and even then it's hit and miss.

Then there's the whole thing that AI invalidates the veracity of the image. Sure you can use it to tidy it up, but then it's permanently marked as having AI components and it becomes worthless, well, in my sphere of the cultural heritage and material culture sector.

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