Svalbard, Norway is where this amazingly beautiful photo was taken by photographer Marsel van Oosten WOW!! 💗

Zion National Park is another great place in the US Southwest to explore. This shot was taken on the hike up to Angel's Landing. Unfortunately, I didn't get all the way up, because my brother was waiting at the bottom... I had told him that I'd just hike up for 10 minutes and see what I see, but then an hour went by and I figured I should probably turn back.

#AYearForArt #ZionNationalPark #Nature #NaturePhotography #Mountains #Southwest #UnitedStates

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This immature #AmericanGoldfinch perched for some time on the clothes line and was looking quite aristocratic and regal. The juvenile Goldfinches are quite beautiful in the subtle colors of buff and brownish black plumage. I find that the fact that the #Goldfinch is one of the strictest #vegetarians in the bird world quite interesting.
Available here https://debbie-oppermann.pixels.com/featured/aristocratic-goldfinch-debbie-oppermann.html
#birds #BirdLover #BirdArt #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #avian #AYearForArt #LoveArt #BirdsOfMastodon #wildlife

Looking forward to the upcoming Milky Way season! This was taken last year in Avalon, NJ. Shooting the Milky Way at the Jersey shore is always best early in the season before the crowds come back and the light pollution increases.

#AYearForArt #MilkyWay #stars #nightsky #nightphotography #buyartnotcandy #GiftThemArt #NewJersey #JerseyShore

Prints available here!
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Rothkoesque facade of an abandoned house near Silves in the #Algarve. 2018
#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #photography #portugal

#SilentSunday

I confessed to my daughter that I was bragging about being her mom.
I told her how proud I was of her DahliaAddict.com project.
Sometimes, I forget to tell the person that matters the most.
I asked for some pictures of her garden.
Her pictures are better than mine.
#Dahlia #DahliaAddict.com

Winter sunrise.
Lake. Boat.
Venhonen, Finland 🇫🇮

Photographer: Jarno Miettinen
Inst: @jarnohanmie.photography

#finland #jarnomiettinen #WinterWatch #FridayFeeling #winteronfriday #boat #sunrise #suomi #discovery #photography

When someone tells you that you are not good enough, that you can't do something, it is because in their heart they fear you can. Use this knowledge, and prove their fears correct!

Hi friends, I was laid off from Google last week and I'm looking for new opportunities. I'd like to find a role where I'm directly working with people to address their infrastructure needs.

A few of the types of problems I'd love to work on:

- building internal platforms
- on-prem/hybrid cloud
- cost optimization
- ops/infra tooling

But I'm also open to many other areas of focus. If you're looking for a senior engineer with an ops/infra focus, please get in touch.

Tahoma (Mt Rainier) casts a shadow across the early morning sky, as seen from Bonney Lake, Washington:

#Photography #MtRainier #WashingtonState

I think my new hobby is finding photogenic spots for my motorcycle like this old vintage Texaco sign just outside of old town Acworth.

#CafeRacer #motorcycle #motorcycles
#Acworth #GA

There is nothing new under the sun. But there are new suns.

/ octavia butler

Most folks know about da VInci's Vitruvian Man. But not as many know about Buckminster Fuller's Cheetodesic Dome.

*Full credit to artist Sam Keller
https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/sam-keller-art-020322

„The morning bird gets the worm“
Do not listen to that bullshit. Worms are gross.
Sleep. I saw some birds eating stuff at 4pm.
Don‘t get fooled by Big Worm™️

I keep hearing that #Mastodon is not likely to replace #Twitter. To that I say: so what?
I've been contributing to the #Linux desktop for the last 15 years not because it's likely to replace #Windows, but because providing people with free desktop is the right thing to do.
I use and support Mastodon not because it's likely to replace Twitter, but because it's a social network done right.

I'm a former historian, researcher / author who switched careers about a year ago to become a software engineer (currently an ML engineer @ ZenML working on #MLOps).

I'm retraining myself to think and work in technical domains. Software is my day job, but around the edges I'm studying #machinelearning (mainly via #fastai), mathematics (via Open University's #Q31 #mathematics degree) and also the 'Basic Program' at Chicago University.

#introduction

Comet ZTF over Mount Etna

Image Credit & Copyright: Dario Giannobile

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230128.html #APOD

Peach quince flower on creme #Love #Liebe #ValentinesDay #Romance #Romantic #2023AYearForArt #QuinceFlower #BuyArtNotCandy #ValentinesDay2023 #AYearForArt #Pink #JanuaryJoy #Art #Artist #LoveArt #IrisRichardsonArtist #ArtCollector #ArtMatters #mastoart #FediGiftShop https://iris-richardson.pixels.com/featured/peach-quince-flowers-iris-richardson.html

Day 27 #JanuaryJoy

Hellebores in my garden #aTinyGardenInNorthEastWales
I took this photo last March while having a wander in my back garden. At the time I had Covid and was looking for something to cheer myself up. The Hellebore flowers provided that cheer. Although I did manage to slice my finger open while cutting the flowers 🤦‍♀️
#flowers #plants #gardens
#Wales
#florespondence
#FloralDisplay