where I found out my camera’s sensor is OMG-peppered with some sort of dirt. Been meaning to write a spot tool for rawproc, and that is exactly what I did during evenings in the hotel room. A simple clone tool, collects a list of spot centers and corresponding patches to cover them. The above image has 16 such corrections. Yes, will investigate sensor cleaning next week…
I’m in southwest Texas at the moment, here to do some landscape photography during the “wet” season. Well, apparently the weather didn’t get the “wet” memo this year and it’s been clear blue skies all day, except for a little bit of weather on the first evening. But I think I have a few shots. I’ll post some once I’m home and they’re processed.
I find this encouraging.
I was brought up in Yorkshire, and lived for a time in Huddersfield, and worked in Bradford. Both of these towns had large Asian populations. However, you never saw them in the Yorkshire Dales, or in the Lake District.
So, here is a group of Asians (admittedly, all men), obviously on holiday, taking part in an outdoor activity in Scotland.
As eight asian tourists and one cheerful local from Scotland paddled their small boat through the exhilarating rapids, they couldn’t help but feel the adrenaline rush.
One of the tourists turned to the Scottish local and asked, “Do you have any advice for navigating these wild waters?”
The local Scot replied with a wink, “Aye, of course! In Scotland, we have a saying: ‘When in doubt, just let the river take you where it pleases!’”
The tourists looked puzzled and asked, “But won’t that be dangerous?”
The Scot burst into laughter and said, “Nah, I’m just kidding! Just follow my lead, and we’ll navigate these rapids like seasoned pros!”
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Sorry, could not resist to feed this into ChatGPT I had to cheat a little, because it wouldn’t make fun of asians … fair enough!
This was my prompt: Tell me a funny joke about 8 people with 1 local in scotland paddling in a small boat in the rapids.
A small assumption there - we have just about finished having our sadly neglected house renovated. Our builder was from Northern Ireland, one of the electricians was Polish, our decorator was Hungarian.
We occasionally go to the Fonab Castle hotel (the red building in the picture), not often though, the prices are eye-watering. Their “whisky ambassador” is Portugese…
boat in 
- that has to be the start of some kind of joke
… fair enough!
