All you need is one NewTumbl user to undo management goodwill
This is a comment (with my reply, in reverse chronology) from a NewTumbl user, Thewonderfulo, who often posts about the site’s rating system. I’ve no idea if it’s official, but it certainly passes...
View ArticleLucire at 25: how things have changed
The below was originally posted in Lucire. We have made it to 25 years of age there, and rather than reinvent the wheel, this little piece—as well as the one I uploaded yesterday hours after we turned...
View ArticleIt’s got a picture of the Queen in it
To the best of my recollection, this is the only photograph of HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH the Duke of Edinburgh that I shot and own. You’ll have to look closely. In fact, you might not even see...
View ArticleFacebook exploits COVID-19 for profit, and viral thoughts
A lot of the world’s population has come together in the fight against COVID-19. Except Facebook, of course, who is exploiting the virus for profit. Facebook has done well in the first quarter of 2020...
View ArticleThe first world problems of the cellphone (lockdown edition)
This Pukerua Bay Tardis was the last thing I shot before the cellphone’s camera and gallery failed First world problems: the cellphone. Right now my partner and I have half a phone each, so between...
View ArticleJanuary 2023 gallery
Here are January 2023’s images—aides-mémoires, photos of interest, and miscellaneous items. I append to this gallery through the month. .all-images { padding-top: 10px !important; padding-bottom:...
View ArticleMarking galleries private today
Along came Copytrack again yesterday, identifying an image that they allege we stole and put on Lucire’s website. And once again I had to go back through old emails—only 11 years this time, not 13 like...
View ArticleGoogle can’t deal with YouTube code; and a farewell to Smugmug after 13 years
Once again, Google is full of bollocks. Its latest email to me says there’s a video on the Lucire website that’s ‘too tall’. Here’s a screenshot of the offending video on the page it identified....
View ArticleI have business for the photo bots, but they don’t want it
We received a few more automated notices from Copytrack last month, and as usual we were able to show them the licences. However, this one involved one of our editors, and I had to waste her time...
View ArticleFirst customer copy off the press
They’re out there in the wild now. Stewart Sims was our first Autocade Yearbook customer and he’s just posted photos of his copy on Mastodon. Thank you, Stewart! PS.: Flâneur over at that other...
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