Nothing but blue skies from now on
Good morning, welcome to the 2nd edition of my 2025 photo journal. I’m moving away from Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsUp. Apparently Zuckerberg is anxious to have his platform emulate that of Musk. One of Musk is one too many. This website will be my Instagram and Blue Sky will be my Facebook. Look for me there at https://bsky.app/profile/poltrack.net
During the second week of January I spent some time experimenting with focus stacking. It is technique used in macro and regular photography to capture everything in focus. A number of photos are taken and they are aligned and combined so the resultant image shows only the elements that are in focus. The unfocused elements are masked out. The process can be done with photoshop, but I downloaded a trial version of Zerene Stacker which makes the process much easier. I’ve included a few examples in my photo collection
It was cold and when I noticed the birds pecking at the frozen birdbath. I set out some fresh water. The birds flocked to it. It became tiresome to replace the water so I finally set up a defroster. Give them water and they will come. Here are the photos.
Photo Gallery – Week 2 (2025)
Daily Picture Themes
I’ve been keeping up with the Daily Picture Themes posted on the social media site Spoutible and posting them on my Improves with Age substack. Here is the summary from the first week of 2025.
“There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.”
— Mark Twain
In Search of Sanity
“[I’m trying to] accept with [grace] the things that cannot be changed, [maintain the drive] to change the things that [might and] should be changed, and [gain] the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.” – Doug Waitt version, which is more apropos to our current situation
I’m on Bluesky
I left Twitter after Elon Musk took over. I signed up for several social media sites including Bluesky. However most of the news organizations and journalist remained on the Twitter platform…. until now. Suddenly there was an exodus to Bluesky. Welcome, look for me,
Can we talk?
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