Friday, May 24, 2024

 May 23, 2024, a thought for today. Those who train themselves in wisdom cultivate true courage. Hebrew Proverb



One of the photo a day uploads for yesterday was “opposites”. It is one of my fading poinsettia cuttings along with some geranium leaves beginning to root. The opposites are new and old, colors, and shapes. 



The next upload for the 22nd was “money”. This is one of my collections of changes that I need to get to the bank.


The third and last upload for yesterday was “lines”. I see lines in trees and in the length and shape of the street in the back ground. There are also lines in the shapes on the house in a portion of the image.


Life today. This is another one of those days where the to-do list was thrown out the window. However, I did get the “top of the Thursday list done”, the bulletin and newsletter printed. 

5:00am May 23.....the refrigerator growled. I got up three times to try to adjust the ice maker....that didn’t do it. While I was at church I called to see if Andy and Tami could come over to help me figure out what it could be. I needed a ‘second opinion(s)’

When I got home from church, they came over. Wouldn’t you know, the frig didn’t make a sound. They did help me find the refrigerator filter so I could get the name so that I could replace it.....I remember in the “olden days” me, and my mom all my growing life, got by with a frig that didn’t need a filter. Tami also helped me find where I could return the gate I bought and didn’t use. 

My first upload for today is “nostalgia” . This is my mom and dad from about sixty years ago. My two boys both have many of his features. He had two daughters, myself and my sister. He was able to “meet” and hold Bob, his first grandson, a few months before he died. 

Sue took her car for some repairs and needed a pick up so I put the computer chores on the back burner go pick her up.....we will have a return trip later. 

In trying to think of a birthday present for Lowell I found a photo I will print and frame for him. I can’t think of something he would need. I usually give my family gift certificates. It didn’t seem like the thing to do in this case all things considered. 

I was trying to get by without the AC until I went to out to get Sue. As soon as we got home I turned it back on.

I received one of the four plants that I want to add to my hydroponic house plant garden in the mail today. I hope to get it prepared for its new home in a mason jar this afternoon. 


My second upload for today is “glass”. This is a “wall of glass” . It is one of the buildings in downtown Columbus reflecting some more “downtown/uptown” including a US flag in the reflected background. 

The word today is fail.  Where words fail, music speaks. Hans Christian Andersen.  I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating. Sophocles. Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. Emily Dickinson.  Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. Robert Louis Stevenson.  When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. Epictetus.  A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. Michelangelo.  Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. Jean de la Bruyere.  People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. Martin Luther.  Try and fail, but don't fail to try. John Quincy Adams.  Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never. Theodore Parker.  It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult). Aristotle.  God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails. Charles Spurgeon.  Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. Gautama Buddha. If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail. Horace Mann.

The last upload for photo a day today is “flower”. This is one of my Hollyhocks when I still had a chain  link fence instead of the “privacy” fence in the backyard. 

Article: I thought this sounded interesting especially since it involves photography, like most of us with cell phones in this time in history. The title is “Phone cameras can take in more light than the human eye”. The first paragraph stated something like photography using computer related processes as Smartphones do along with AI “allow these devices to capture stunning images that can surpass what we see with the naked eye”. The professor who wrote the article stated that smartphone features “overcome the limitations of human vision”. Human eyes see with clearness of “footprints in a sun-soaked desert and pilot vehicles at high speeds” but are less impressive in low light conditions. Due to the make up of the eyes meaning the “rods and  cones”, night vision is not reliable in humans and may miss much of the color.  In low light humans the eye tends to focus more on motion and shape. The author says that “these compact devices (smartphones) use multiple cameras and advanced sensors to gather more light than the human eye can, even in low-light conditions”. Along with other ways the smartphones develop photography in the use of digital techniques and algorithms they use stabilization and exposure settings to “optimize the amount of light the camera captures”. There is a setting on the smartphone called night mode that can balance colors in low light. Then AI comes into the picture, this allows the cameras to “optimizing the settings, applying bursts of light........to get really fine detail”.  Though smartphones have come a long way in advancing photography, standard cameras “have larger sensors and superior optics, providing more control over the images you take”. The major photo manufacturers “avoid tampering with the image, instead letting the photographer take creative control”. You can shoot in “raw format” and then use creative editing to produce higher quality images. There are “AI” features within the standard camera also such as night mode, and portrait mode. Photoshop also allows for the use of AI features. Editors comment: a photograph no matter how generated captures moments in time. They are also products of a creative spirit not to mention their historic presence and message.

I still haven’t had the potato soup so maybe that will be on the menu for tonight. 

Joy

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