#3 would be titled “TikTok counter way below expectations”
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Or it’s a still from the Black Mirror episode Nosedive - social credit rating has plummeted…
…which was then introduced by the Chinese government.
When satire goes bad.
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It reminds me that I shot a funny quick video around the corner from where this was taken in the British Museum of someone making a tik-tok video outside the Japanese-themed “Usagi Maid” cafe:
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Excellent image, Kurt, but the subject is a bit disturbing. I guess it’s just nature being natural.
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Thank you and - I didn’t want to offend anyone. In German there is a word for it: Liebesrad - wheel of love. And this is what they do, you can see it everywhere where dragonflies live these days. Why is it disturbing?
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That makes it worse, tbh 
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o tempora, o mores! 
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Although a nice attitude to have in general, I don’t think anyone should have to worry about causing offence from posting nature shots, surely?
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You certainly didn’t! It’s a great shot
Out last night with my local camera club to Knockhill Racing Circuit for the stock car racing!
Although I had to shoot JPG rather than RAW so that my Canon EOS 750D had reasonable fast burst shooting mode.
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I’m laid up after prostate surgery, but not before son and I did our Father’s day boondock camping trip. Right after arrival, it was Matt who spotted this light on the clouds:
Next morning presented wonderfully variegated light, here’s the best of the captures:
The tonality is exaggerated a bit, conveys the mood I saw in the scene.
Finally, a bit of an experiment:
This shot was taken through a Tiffen #25 red filter, specifically destined to be grayscaled. I was looking to duplicate the sky-cloud contrast I used to get using such a filter with Pan-X black-n-white film; what I found out is that if I paid homage to the non-linear response of the film in the tone curve, I could get close to this simply with a grayscaled full-color capture. Still, I like the idea of the unconventional approach… 
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These are lovely
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I’ve missed the red 25a + circular polarizer technique on b/w film, it can be replicated in camera with an RGB array… It needs a monochrome camera it seems.
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Hope you recover well.
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Thanks! We’ve been going to camp at the same site since 2018, and whenever I think I’ve exhausted the photo possibilities, someting else comes up.
That would be the ultimate emulation, #25 filter onto a monochrome camera.
Two days past, so far so good. Thanks for the sentiment.
The UrDoc did it with a robot, a rather scary-looking 5-armed beast in front of a cowl console. They wouldn’t let me take my camera into the operating theater… 
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Prostate surgery… ouch. I’ve not had it but from what I’ve heard I want to stay away from that stuff. Hope you recover quickly and well.
That first shot especially is nice!
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