Alt text included. It was a challenging exercise for me and at first I struggled. It was only after I spent time thinking about my photography and how it is an expression of something in me that I was able the articulate this text.
The photo isn’t a portrait of the bird but an expression of how I felt about it and the surrounding natural setting at that moment. The photo tries to convey something of the bird in the environment where it lives.
#wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #birds
Love this little gem of a Polaroid Lab print. It's from a 6x6 pinhole image taken with an Ondu 6x6 and Ilford XP2. My local test subject and the light is too die for
Radio Garden Lets You Instantly Tune into Radio Stations Across the Entire Globe
A pretty cool project. Pick a place on the globe. Any place. Then tune in and hear what's playing on the radio in that location. The service is called Radio Garden, and here's what it's essentially all about: By bringing distant voices close, radio connects people and places.
A plea to journalists covering the Fediverse:
If you want to pitch a story and the only people you can think of to talk to are Gargron and the Journa Host admin, please don't.
Instead, use the time you saved to learn more about how this network functions, who the people behind ActivityPub are (and what that even is), who the people keeping instances running are, who the people moderating instances are; you can even get your hands dirty by digging through the Mastodon GitHub issue queue and learning why exactly some design decisions ended up the way they did, it's all right there!
Mastodon is not off-brand Twitter. You do this entire community a massive disservice by painting it as such, and you do our profession a disservice by expressing a complete lack of curiosity about this community before you report on it.
Thank you.
10 Image #CaptionTips from a transcriptionist:
1. Any words are better than nothing.
2. You don't need to say it's "a picture of…" screen readers will already say it's an image.
3. Start with the framing or format (i.e. close up, landscape, meme, text).
4. Think about the reason you're posting the pic and describe that first, add background details if you have time.
5. Pretend you're talking to someone on the phone and want to tell them about this cool thing you're looking at.
6. Transcribe any and all text in the image, even if it's the only thing you do.
7. If you've described the image in your post, you don't need to copy and paste it again in the caption. But again, don't leave it blank, just put something like "as described."
8. You can add small subjective notes, but don't give too much interpretation of the image in your own opinion.
9. Caption jokes are fun, as long as they still describe the image objectively.
10. Use punctuation, and capitalize words properly. A lot of us have interacted with this tech when calling customer service or talking to Siri, so keep in mind that you're writing for a computer to read, and it needs all the help it can get.
U.S. Police kill more than 1100 civilians annually—unprecedented in the developed world.
A new app called TurnSignl, built by Black civil rights lawyers, deescalates police interactions with civilians & get everyone home safe.
Here's how it works.
1. Download the app
2. When pulled over by police, face time a lawyer on demand via voice activation. The call is also auto recorded
3. The lawyer guides the convo.
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