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“Why are people always so skeptical of tech’s contributions to culture?!”
This is why.
How a photographer captured his eclipse photo
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Which is only possible because people go out and take photographs like this. This is a bit like saying "Why do science, when you can subscribe to Ars Technica?"
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#13Gen AI: “I Made This.”
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#14What percentage of the population would you say has an interest in a craft at or above this level?
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#15Glad others were photographing it. I was just there for the ahhhhs. It's a kind of a religious experience for me and, though it was my second, I knew from the first one that I ought to just ignore the phone and just take in the experience. No regrets. I'm old enough that it's questionable I'll be around in 21 years for the next one in the U.S.. Only my middle daughter has not yet seen one (wife and the other two daug…
And around for Oumuamua, too
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#16As a pro photographer I’ve always been intrigued by serendipity and luck. For instance, the amateur who photographed Mt. St. Helens moment of “the big one” eruption with a spectacular landslide preceding the event has made money licensing those images every year since.
Yet this is an example of something that required foresight and planning- and just a bit of serendipity. It’s a great image.
I’ve had some trouble illustrating the difference between these two concepts for people not in the profession. Yet my professional success has been entirely based upon the latter. However even with all the planning and preproduction work, most of my success has relied on serendipity to a degree. Sometimes this results in failure because this last little ingredient never happened.
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#17What a horrible photo, really. Jesus on the cross.
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#18What percentage of the population would you say has an interest in a craft at or above this level?
You mean... like, an aircraft?
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#19As a pro photographer I’ve always been intrigued by serendipity and luck. For instance, the amateur who photographed Mt. St. Helens moment of “the big one” eruption with a spectacular landslide preceding the event has made money licensing those images every year since. Yet this is an example of something that required foresight and planning- and just a bit of serendipity. It’s a great image. I’ve had some trouble ill…
I remember a couple of pro photographers died in their cars in separate incidents after taking shelter from the eruption. I believe they were outside the restricted zone that was considered dangerous, but that didn't take a possible lateral eruption into account. One of the photographers laid across the backpack with his equipment and they recovered some of the film when they found him.
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So let's stop creating music, painting and writing fiction books because GenAI can do it. Also no cooking at home because restaurants do it. Also no point playing chess.