For today's #ThickTrunkTuesday, I have a very special tree.

This is an ancient hornbeam tree that is about 700 yrs old.

It looks like two trees, but it's actually a single tree that has begun to compartmentalise in the latter part of its life. I explain more about this below.

I'd love to go back to shoot this again in the fog. Here's hoping things align the next time I have an opportunity to get up to this remarkable forest.

#woodland #trees #forest #landscapephotography #art #nature

Smart.
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Hello, I am a friendly person who enjoys coffee, photography, and cat pictures a lot. I am obsessed with stationery items, especially with fountain pens. I am also an assistant professor of computing science but I am planning to share more of personal stuff here (and occasionally a bit of work updates perhaps) when I have time. This is my belated #introduction

Reply guys who mention something irrelevant to your post should be called “Scope creeps”

I went out in the backyard to watch and photograph the full moon rising on February 5, 2023. I used various settings to get different light and color...this was one of my favorites. A tad bit spooky but beautiful at the same time.

https://debra-martz.pixels.com/featured/full-moon-rising-number-3-debra-martz.html

#FullMoon #Moon #NightSky #Lunar #astronomy #photography #NightPhotography #PhotographyIsArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #art #BuyIntoArt #artBooster #GiftThemArt

With translucent, jewel-colored ears, Glass Gem Corn was developed by Carl Barnes, a part-Cherokee farmer and breeder from Oklahoma. Barnes crossed several traditional corn varieties and saved seed from the most vivid, translucent kernels. It was gifted to Native Seeds Search by Bill McDorman, who acquired it from Barnes' student Greg Schoen following Barnes' death.

A flint variety, it is used for making flour or as a popping corn.

#plants

https://www.nativeseeds.org/blogs/blog-news/the-story-of-glass-gem-corn-beauty-history-and-hope

Photo: Sherwood Seeds

Hello Mastodon!

I'm Cemre, I'm 24 years old. I work as a software engineer at Amazon. I live in West London.

Academically I am interested in #MachineLearning and I recently published a paper at #ECCV with my colleagues .

In my free time I'm usually either studying languages, studying #linguistics, or working on hobby dev projects apps for fun or for facilitating language-learning

I really like reading about indie game projects, retro tech, new technological trends

#introduction

Watercolour Lake

2023-01-10 day 211 of doing art every day for a year (mostly - I took sick days off).

I'm a bit behind in posting, so don't be surprised at a whole bunch of posts showing up in the next few days. 🤣

This is a Tatyworks watercolour tutorial. I learn a lot about Procreate and how I can use it with her tutorials. I've tried watercolours without her, and they were a mess. 🤣

#ArtMatters #AYearForArt #Procreate #ProcreateArt #DigitalArt #WomensArt #WomenArtists #ArtistsOnMastodon

https://youtu.be/NmzEVkvJCWA
Digital painting in watercolour…

Sunflowers

2023-01-09 day 210 of doing art every day for a year (mostly - I took sick days off).

This is an experiment. I got a thick paint brush and wanted to take it for a spin, and this is the result.

#ArtMatters #AYearForArt #Procreate #ProcreateArt #DigitalArt #WomensArt #WomenArtists #ArtistsOnMastodon
Yellow sunflowers painted digit…

Some pretty sweet icicle action going on with the trees today. They’re remnants of an ice-storm that came through a couple of days ago. #trees

This makes sense.
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“Shed no tear
O, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more
O, weep no more!
Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.” - from Fairy’s Song (Shed No Tear!) by John Keats.
Photo of Roseberry Topping Hill in the North Yorkshire Moors by John Patr.
#Literature
#Keats

James Forten was born a free man in 1766 in Philadelphia. During the Revolutionary War he was a powder boy on a sailing ship, only to be captured and then released by the British. He resumed employment as a sailmaker, going on to own the business and employ 38 people. He invented a new type of sail and made a fortune. He funded #abolitionist causes, purchased freedom for enslaved people, opened his home as an Underground Railroad depot & started a school for #Black children.

#BlackHistoryMonth

i want what they have

Warm enough to walk outside! And nice skies in #MiddleTennessee #SeenOnMyWalk

Having recently acquired a macro lens, I believe I'm contractually obliged to try and shoot some #mosstodon imagery. Here's my first candidate.

#ThickTrunkTuesday
#Photography
Olive tree, Mérida, #Spain

Industrious children planting vegetables in a post-apocalyptic city
Midjourney 4 AI Art
#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney

The last butterfly
Midjourney 4 AI Art
#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney

And that’s all for another day of paper reading — 7 papers boosted (out of a total of 91 today) in the cs.CV category on arXiv.org.

It feels as if I spent way more time on the 7 papers than I do on like 15 papers on other days, but that’s how it goes …

#AI #CV #NewPapers #DeepLearning #MachineLearning