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This bird is just too entertaining to photograph!! Just when I think I have seen every cool thing he can do, he goes on and surprises me. Here’s one from a few weeks ago that I just saw in my camera roll.
#nyc #bk #bayridge #usa #birding #burding #urbanbirding #cardinals #featheredfriends #featheredfriend #natgeoyourshot #canon #eosr #canoneosr #canonphotography #birdphotography #birdlovers #birdfreaks #avianphotography
These photos were made with a Soligor 650mm f/8.5 manual focus mirror lens I recently bought for around $90. This particular lens was manufactured in 1983 according to its serial number.
Challenging myself to show detail in an active subject with a manual focus lens made me immediately appreciate the research & development of AutoFocus technology in all of my other lenses. I hope you enjoy these images of the local cardinal pair in the tree outside my window.
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#nyc #streetphotography #streets #citysidewalks #city #citystroll #cities #citiesoftheworld #cityphotography #lamps #lampandlight
I did my best to bring out the full range of detail in the clouds. I like how the tree in the center feels like the upcoming waypoint in a video game, as if a cutscene might play out upon arriving at the base where its roots meet the soil.
Nowhere in the neighborhood seems to print photos anymore!!
Here’s a Great Blue Heron from Prospect Park as compensation for my complaint. #nyc #prospect #park #prospectpark #birding
Acrobatic swooping through the #Brooklyn flurries.
#eosr #canon #urbanbirding #bayridge #snow #snowflakes #snowfall #cardinal #birds #birding #avian #birdstagram #winter #nyc
The cardinal was back again today! Very good conditions gave me some amazing opportunities to show off his gorgeous details. After about 40 minutes of playing with his reflection, his mate came and picked him up and took him off to better and more important things. I look forward to recording images of the two of them together. More to follow…
#canon #rflens #rf70200f28lisusm #bk #ny #nyc #Brooklyn #cardinals #cardinal #urbanbirding #birding #birds #birdsofinstagram #fiesty #red
Butters, yawning around a photographer is a dangerous game 🥱🙀😾
#canon #rf70200f28 #bk #ny #nyc #cats #cat #catsofinstagram #catyawn #yawn #sleepycat
Impressionist photography is FUN
#icm #icmphotography #impression_shots #eosr #rf70200f28lisusm #butterflies #paper #origami #origamiart #nyc #bk #brooklyn #madeinbrooklyn #canon #RFLens #rflenses #newyorkcity #paintingwithlight
One thing I noticed since adding puzzles to my product lineup on Etsy is how the puzzle world of that marketplace really is the wild west.
On Print-On-Demand platforms like Redbubble, Society6 and FineArtAmerica, there are at least some built-in checks (even if they are on the honor system) where uploaders must affirm they created the work they're uploading and that they are the intellectual owner of that work.
On Etsy, no such honor system checks exist, as flimsy as they may be as it is. Thousands and thousands of MidJourney, Dall-e and SD images clog the puzzle results, and I know some print providers even encourage uploaders to use "AI" art in their marketplaces.
Etsy is ubiquitous; even non tech-savvy people use it for gift buying this time of year. It brings in a demographic of folks who don't even know about "AI art" and its impact, or how it's created. People from that group can purchase art from machines and not even know it.
There are thousands of AI products out there, mass created and uploaded without a real human ever putting a hand to the work, just to fit a genre or aesthetic.
I've spent thousands of hours on my craft to create the handful of work on my puzzle listings. But they can't hold a candle to the multitude of AI generated listings a person can put up in a matter of hours, not the thousands I spent to make it *for real*.
Support human-powered art.
That is all.
Andrea Borden, Photographer