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That said, my movements weren’t perfect because of brain damage, and I was certainly out of shape, but I had a really good time.

A lady walks home alone at night. I hope she’ll be okay.

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A friend of mine had let me up to her 16th floor balcony, and she had a fantastic view of the city.

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This fine lady was just standing there. Close enough for me to get about fifty frames off, and well-lit enough for me to do it with a handheld telephoto lens.

I hope I did her justice.

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There's actually about ten images in this set, but Lemmy will only let me pick one, so I hope I got the best one of the set!

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(And if you wanted to see the others in the set, it's all over at https://pixelfed.social/tanisnikana)

My first time capturing fireworks. I made some mistakes, and I think the biggest mistake I made was being married to 100 ISO, and bringing a tripod. Fortunately for me, I was sitting right at the position directly in front of the barge, so I was able to get good shots of lovely centered fireworks. In order to get my ideas right, I shot a bit underexposed, about -1.5EV, but I think it worked out, made it harder to edit though.

My opinions and beliefs about the state of the country and my status with in it as a minority aside, I saw an opportunity for photography practice, and growth in the field, and I took it.

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Somehow I had been stuck on Darktable 3.8 for a while, so I finally uninstalled the system package of it, and bumped up to the 5.2 flatpak, and it's amazing! A bit of adjustment, and there we go! King says hi. I hope eventually rhinos can multiply and be less critically endangered.

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I wanted to capture the most glaring bits of modern suburbia, of modern infrastructure, in a crunchy and appealing frame and contrast. I was also hassled by a cop while I took this.

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I’ve been seeing these signs pop up everywhere, sometimes in the most unexpected places.

They help.

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When I set out to completely scrap my default Cinnamon-on-Linux-Mint experience, I decided I wanted something that felt like a fictional OS from a video game, like you'd sit down at someone's computer and see some BS operating system that you'd kind of understand but it definitely doesn't resemble much of what's real.

So:

Linux Mint 21.3, running Cinnamon. The dock on the left is Plank Reloaded, and the top panel is just a Cinnamon panel, with left-formatted date cause I haven't seen a major OS put stuff like that up in the corner. Both dock and panel intelligently autohide and are a dream to use. The little turtle emoji pops a somewhat custom applications menu, accessible with the Super key, both on dock and panel.

The system font across all elements is Inter, the most beautiful display font I've ever seen: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inter, and it just brings a certain elegance that the stock Ubuntu font is sorely lacking.

The theme is Semabe Grey Glassy, with the transparency tuned quite a bit for my personal taste, the mouse is Future-Cyan-Cursors, the dock icons are Mint-Y-Dark-Pink but with a modification for the turtle emoji, and the Linux Mint boot logo has been swapped out for you-know-exactly-what. The wallpaper is a moderately edited asset rip from Life is Strange: Double Exposure, and that blep turtle I fell in love with was as a mural on a wall in a bar, and since there's no clean photo mode, I could prolly just go find it (and I did!).

I hope you enjoyed looking at and hearing about my semi-fictitious TurtleOS!

Despite how a lady at the bookstore “struggled with” my pronouns and bounced off “he” several times before settling on “they” cause apparently she couldn’t bring herself to say “she.”

Shit’s hard out there.