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Lucire 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...
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It’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...
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January 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...
View ArticleBaidu’s “AI” image enhancement tested: clever, but like a hallucination
Baidu has been offering “AI” enhancement of its images for a while, and yesterday I bit the bullet, created an account, and trialled it. It was a press image that I had in high-res, but Baidu’s image...
View ArticleWhat they can tell from a single photo
Again via Ben Daubney’s blog, which I found yesterday, a site called They See Your Photos, which uses Google’s Vision API to infer information about you. If you feed in a photo, the site provides...
View ArticleHow we chose this year’s Autocade Year of Cars cover
We had compiled a press list this year for Autocade Year of Cars—but I still wound up sending personal emails, some from my private address, some from a work one. What I didn’t do this year was give...
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