RR📷

A dark silhouette of a raptor flying across the glowing disk of the rising sun. The bird’s wings are spread wide as it crosses the sun, creating an eclipse-like moment against a deep orange sunrise sky. The lower part of the frame fades into darker reddish tones, emphasizing the minimalist scene and the powerful contrast between the bird and the sun.

Solar Sovereign.
A raptor’s transit across a burning star.

📍Keoladeo National Park, Rajasthan.

#lensonwildlife #nature #photography #ThePhotoHour #birds #silhouette #raptors

Thank you, Tom! 🙏🏽

A majestic Grey Heron stands tall in a shallow pond, looking towards the right of the viewer, with blurred foliage all around.

King of the pond, king of the fishers
Grey Heron
📷 #Birds #Nature #Wildlife #Photography

A tiny bird with a white underbelly, a brown upper body, yellow eyes and legs, and a distinct dark ring around its neck, walks on wet clay, water reflecting the bird beneath it.

Little Ringed Plover
📷 🌿 🪶 #Nature #Birds #WildLife #Photography

Like we didn't have enough of these loonies in India.. and India Today lost its relevance a long time ago.

LPG shortage: Power supply to Bengaluru might be hit by natural gas priority list issued by Centre Bengaluru's power generation faces disruption due to the Centre's gas supply prioritization amid ongoing natural gas shortages.

Well..
www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...

Curious.. is there a an #AtProto community in #India ?

‘Why we work and live in Kerala’: Migrant labourers speak YouTube video by The News Minute

News minute survey of some daily wage laborers in Kerala

Mockingbird song from last weekend
#SongBirds #BirdoftheDay
#birds

One of the key tenets of usability is User Control - If the user feels like they are not in control, all the AI slops you push to the users won't get used. Build features that users need - they will come to you.

Microsoft screwed MS Office. Especially, Teams - horribly slow, constantly asks users to use Copilot even when they haven’t shown any interest. Like a spammy website with pop-ups asking you to buy viagra, it keeps appearing everywhere and interferes with your work.

Put this in the bin along with Recall and bury it with the nuclear waste at yucca mountain

Photograph of ice encased grass stem with the sunrise shining through from behind. There is one tiny bead of ice hanging from the grass and the sunrise can be seen refracted through it.

Sunrise after the ice storm...
#Nikon #Ice #Art #MotherNature #Manitoulin #Nature #Sunrise

A juvenile Haliastur Indus kite is about to land on a grassy patch, its wings spread wide, its legs and talons extended, blurred, dried grass in the background, mud and soil in the foreground.

Haliastur Indus
📷 🌿 🪶 #Nature #WildLife #Birds #BirdInFlight #Photography

I am thinking of buying a bigger induction cooktop. The electricity bill was already significantly higher this month due to AC usage. Now, with the cooking gas shortage, people will switch to electric alternatives, which then results in power outages. We're F-ed.

"El mar no tiene ni sentido ni piedad" — Anton Chekhov. La brutalidad del impacto contra el karst asturiano exige precisión; no buscamos sedas, sino la violencia del agua congelada. El blanco de la espuma estalla contra la piedra, creando un juego de contrastes que define la lucha eterna de los elementos en este paisaje protegido de nuestra costa. Observar la silueta humana ante la magnitud de la ola es un recordatorio de nuestra escala. La foto no captura solo el paisaje, sino la vulnerabilidad del espectador. En ese equilibrio entre la fuerza ciega y la presencia estática reside la verdadera tensión narrativa del blanco y negro.

📌 El Rugido del Cantábrico | The Roar of the Cantabrian

"The sea has neither meaning nor pity." — Anton Chekhov

#FotoDeFer #Asturias #Seascape #Bufones #BlackAndWhite #ImageAndVerse

Anna’s hummingbird portrait next to cherry blossom and b branches

Mr. Sakura 🌸

Anna’s Hummingbird 📷🌿🪶

test

Screenshot of a group creation form from PhotoSky

Screenshot of an ATProto client showing latest feed in masonry / grid style

Screenshot of an ATProto client showing the feed as large images

#PhotoSkyBuildLog
Features added:
1. BlueSky feed generation for Groups
2. Inviting is limited to only mutual connections
3. Notification system - In addition to BlueSky notifications, added group activity notifications (photo invite, comments, pin)
4. Carousel for multi-photo posts

Screenshot of an ATProto client showing notifications.

Upload screeen showing self declaration of photograph and exif display preference

An upload screen showing self declaration of AI edits of a photo.

Big Progress:
- Groups are working - Adding, removing photos to groups, inviting people and photos to the group
- Notifications - Bluesky notifications, PhotoSky notifications (group activities)
- A better photo upload flow - Using Exif and self-declaration to keep the feed free of AI Slop
(1/2)

Two Glossy Ibises confront each other mid-air above a misty wetland in Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur. The ibis on the right lifts one wing high while facing the other bird, which turns slightly away, showing iridescent green and bronze tones on its back and wings. Their long curved bills point toward one another as their legs dangle during the aerial interaction. Below them, a tightly packed group of Eurasian Coots sits together on a small muddy patch surrounded by shallow water, appearing calm beneath the dramatic moment above.

Quiet below. Riot above.

A mid-air clash between two Glossy Ibises above a flock of resting Eurasian Coots.

📍Keoladeo National Park, Rajasthan

#lensonwildlife #birdoftheday #nature #photography #ThePhotoHour #birds #BirdsSeenIn2026

BlueSky comparison

test

Comparing compression

The Indian government assures us everything is fine, which means we should already have been rationing after the first attacks.

Gorillaz - The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God YouTube video by Gorillaz

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucRu...

I am building an AtProto Client focused on photography and community. I would love to ask the #photography community about your preferences and current experiences with various platforms. Will appreciate it if you could give me 4 minutes and fill out this survey ❤️

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The Future of Photo Sharing - Survey Help me design a better user experience for photo sharing on Open Social-Media. This is an anonymous survey. No personal information is collected

Thanks for this - it was a settings issues - please try this and thanks in advance for your response :) - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Oh.. I think it can be turned off in settings. Let me see.

Screenshot of an AtProto client

Screenshot of an AtProto client

Screenshot of an AtProto client

The UI is looking clean so far :) The right sidebar is just dummy content - I am yet to build out the features for badges and contests.

A fisherman in the sea, balancing with two bamboo poles

Teach a man to fish, and he will do acrobatics.
📷 #Beach #People #Documentary #Photography