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AfricanObserver

Grant Hillebrand
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Artist // Hobbyist // Photography
  • Jan 6
  • South Africa
  • Deviant for 15 years
  • He / Him
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teacher, geek, Christ follower
attention span of a grasshopper

Drinker of copious quantities of tea.

More video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/GrantHillebr…

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A7sII/ 24-240 + various bits of vintage glass & GIMP, Sony a57/ 18-250
Being essentially analytical by nature, I like to know "why" I like a picture. There are various "rules" and guidelines around composition that can help, but why do they work, and why are they not absolute? I think, in part, it has to do with the way the image engages the eye and the mind. Pictures that make you think, that make the eye work a little in exploring what's going on, that make you discover something a little more in the image. These are from my "To Think About More" favourites. Most require full screen view to engage my eye properly. If you find them interesting, go and leave a comment as to why. My "whys" can generally be found
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I have just come across this site, and it seems useful - https://haveibeentrained.com/ It identifies images or tags that are in the sources for various AI data training sets. Whilst it's not complete, perfect or enforceable, I think this indicates a way forward. Currently, dA images need to be opted out 1 by 1 - I don't know why the whole deviantArt.com/AfricanObserver URL can't be entered. My work is either standard copyright where other's likenesses are involved, or CC-BY-NC - free to use non-commercially, but if you (intend to) make money from my work, please get in contact. So it being in these data sets is ethically and legal questionable. This is what searching for "AfricanObserver" delivers - a selection of images from this site, some CC-BY-NC, some fully copyrighted. (I suspect the name is a play on the excellent https://haveibeenpwned/ site which checks if your details have been leaked to the internet)
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"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced." Gehm's corollary to Clarke's Third Law Like many people, COVID lockdowns taught me how to livestream. I have always loved tech, and the challenge of streaming was fun. In the last 18 months, I have streamed more lessons that I can recall, somewhere around 150 church services and about 10 larger scale events, including live music, with a 4 piece band. The overarching lesson has to be that "content is king" - the tech is totally secondary. This well known, albeit a little sad for a techie like me. If you ever notice the tech, it has failed. The goal of eventing tech is to create a platform for the content, and to be effectively invisible. People noticing eventing tech can be regarded as failure. So one spends a whole lot of time (and money) on making it as transparent as possible - to achieve the magic of transporting people somewhere else, without noticing. Really, a standard PC or phone webcam and microphone
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Welcome wonderful watcher!

Thank you for the wishes, and the feature.

We can hope 2024 may be better.

My pleasure and yes, we can hope and I hope is not in vain.:heart:

Thanks. It was a little quieter than your graphic, but good none-the-less.

Happy birthday :)