Technology opinions and digital photography
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My best photographs
Here, on my blog, I run a continuous stream of many of my newest photographs, as soon as they are available. But if I also try to group all the pictures I am most proud of. Let’s meet on: Wild Focus This is the web site of my portfolios. There, you will see the subjects…
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Brazil 2023 – Birds of prey
A few weeks in Brazil brought back images of a symbolic and often admirable family of birds: birds of prey. We found all kinds of talons and beaks, sometimes rare, often spectacular, always attractive to the observer and photographer. Brazil, August 2023.
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Saffron finch, all in white
Saffron finch, Sicale bouton d’or (Sicalis flaveola)Brazil, August 2023. While working on some pictures taken last year in Brazil, I stopped on this nice little saffron finch I caught in a tree along a nice little river. It reminded me that I had not mentioned my portfolio, “Blanc, c’est blanc” (White is all), for a…
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Ancient Mediterranean alphabets
I have always been slightly fascinated by the way a language can move from oral tradition to a written system. Ancient civilizations developed some quite interesting alphabets (because we partially recognize or understand them). One of them appears to be well understood even today: The Greek alphabet evolved with technology around the Mediterranean sea. However,…
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Amazonian frogs
Ecuador, February 2024.
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Spectacled bear
Not all American bears are big bulky grizzlies. In South America, you would find small bears (said to be “spectacled” because of the white drawings on their faces) who weigh only a bit more than 100 kg and eat mostly fruit (they love figs and avocados) while avoiding human beings as much as possible. Spectacled…
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Brazil 2023 – Toucans
What bird could be more emblematic of South America than the toucan. Madly colored, with a beak you’d believe prohibits flight, you can’t miss this family of birds. Brazil, August 2023.
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Designing and comparing alphabets
Thanks to the very interesting (and very simple) website of Paul Hsieh GeekPress, I want to share two little gems about English scripture with you today. He found two ways to compare some alphabets. One is about grouping them (a bit like in a Venn diagram): The second is a more hierarchical walk between alphabets.…
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Make noise with AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) succeeded at generating a lot of (marketing and media) noise about itself. We all heard about its ability to produce credible/readable text and realistic (or not) pictures. But there is less publicity to the fact that it can produce… noise or sound. Of course, it can generate music and musical tracks. I…
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