🔥 Current year posting percentage: 100%

Days posted this year: 29 / 365

Current streak: 73 days in a row

Longest streak: 73 days

Total photos on site: 351

Total posts on site: 334

Flower Power (291/365)

Auto-generated description: Bright yellow flowers with delicate petals and intricate stamen formations are closely clustered together.

Departure (290/365)

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Good Coffee & Beautiful Sunrise (289/365)

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Ah, You Gonna Fill This Thing Up? (288/365)

Auto-generated description: A small hummingbird with vibrant orange and green plumage is perched on a thin, curved branch against a blurred background.

Natures Shade (287/365)

Auto-generated description: Golden brown leaves fill the scene, with sunlight filtering through the branches.

Urban Landscape (286/365)

Auto-generated description: A hazy urban landscape features several construction cranes and buildings under a reddish sky.

Got today’s picture done early. Urban Landscape as a new day dawns. Ugh, get me back to nature…

Engineering (285/365)

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Line Up and Wait (284/365)

A plane is on the tarmac near another plane's engine at an airport.

Ornament Selfie (283/365)

Auto-generated description: Various sizes of Christmas ornaments arranged with pine branches and lights create a festive and reflective display.

Portal to the Void (282/365)

Auto-generated description: An aerial view through an airplane window shows mountainous terrain and a winding river below.

Gas -N- Go (281/365)

A Boeing 737 plane is parked at a gate with ground service vehicles surrounding it at an airport.

After the Rains, Desert Glory (280/365)

Auto-generated description: A sunlit desert landscape features cacti in the foreground with mountains and a clear blue sky in the background.

Today, after 10 hours of work, I now have a status block on the Home Page showing Current Year Posting Percentage, Current Streak, Longest Streak, Total photos on site, and Total Posts on site, and under each post. Hopefully, that inspires me not to break my streak. Inspiration comes from Florian’s superb photo blog, the best I’ve ever seen, kind of blog. If you haven’t seen it, please go gawk. 😍

Next goal will be to make a dedicated Stats Page with all sorts of data on it, should be fun!

Note: I’m not competent enough or skilled enough to do something like this on my own. Working with Hugo is way outside my comfort zone. All coding smarts to ChatGPT. I know, I know, there are a lot of LLM haters out there… I’m sorry, but this is what (for me) LLMs are for: helping me code, making my websites better. They don’t write any of my posts; that’s all me.

Test Post (279x2/365)

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365Pixels was down for a few hours, just a test post after deactivating a plugin. A second post for today, thats daily photo blog sacrilege! 😂

Road Life (279/365)

Auto-generated description: A treadmill with a digital display faces large windows overlooking a sunny outdoor area with trees and lounge chairs.

The older I get, the more I loathe hotel gyms. Glad I got them, but ugh, they can be depressing. Sometimes there just isn’t a good place to walk or hike. Come to think of it, I need to start packing a jump rope.

Life Within The Rocks (278/365)

Quick desert walk today and found these flowers among the rocks.

In The Glass (277/365)

Auto-generated description: A nighttime cityscape is seen through a window, reflecting an interior with framed pictures and a T-Mobile Arena sign illuminated in pink.

Sometimes you get happy accidents.

Moon Shot (276/365)

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Well, we’re back on the moon. After that afternoon’s handheld shot of the moon, I wanted to do more. Got the tripod out last night for this night shot. 400mm lens, 1.25x TC, MFT OM-1.

Rust (275/365)

Auto-generated description: A rusted metal bridge railing with large bolts is set against a mountainous landscape in the background.

Sun Kissed (274/365)

A backlit cactus with spiky branches glows in the sunlight in a desert landscape.

Here is the same shot in color.

Sunlight illuminates a cluster of spiky cacti in a desert landscape.

Which do you prefer?

Blue Moon (273/365)

Auto-generated description: A bright half-moon appears vividly against a clear blue sky.

Just for an experiment, I put a 300mm lens on my Olympus OM-1 with a 1.4x teleconverter, walked outside, and hand-held a shot of the moon. Just crazy how well it turned out. The stabilization inside these cameras never ceases to amaze me.

A 300mm lens with a 1.4x converter is 420mm. On the Micro Four Thirds camera, the crop factor is 2x, so the 35mm-equivalent field of view is 840mm.