“The Barn”

Olympus E-M10 IV with Mieke 25mm f/1.8 lens @ f/2.8, 1/3200s, ISO 200. Shot at Mount Pisgah. I wandered around today using the camera’s built-in “gentle sepia” art setting. This is one of the images that I think worked pretty well.

black & white image of a barn

“Recovery”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 60mm f/2.8 macro lens @ f/6.3, 1/1600s, ISO 250. One of the first pine seedlings after the 2022 Cedar Creek fire. Shot along the Jim Weaver Loop Trail.

pine seedling

“Crossing the Desert Sands”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 60mm f/2.8 macro lens @ f/6.3, 1/1600s, ISO 640. Shot in the burned area along the Jim Weaver Loop Trail.

a beetle in the sand

“Pollinator”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 60mm f/2.8 macro lens @ f/5.6, 1/1000s, ISO 100. Bee in bear grass along the Wahanna Trail.

close-up of bee and flower

“Hiker’s Rest Stop”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 18mm, f/11, 1/200s, ISO 500. Taylor Burn USFS cabin.

cabin in the woods with beargrass out front

“Serene”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 14mm, f/11, 1/100s, ISO 200. Williams Lake.

“Plunge”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 14mm, f/22, 1/2.5s, ISO 250. Unnamed waterfall between Middle and Lower Erma Bell lakes seen from above.

a waterfall in the woods

“Stark”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 14mm, f/11, 1/200s, ISO 200. Hiking the Wahanna Trail after the Cedar Creek Fire.

#mbjune Day 30: solitude 📷

“Resting”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 42mm, f/11, 1/125s, ISO 100. Next to Middle Erma Bell Lake.

dragonfly on a rock

“Searching”

Olympus TG-6 @ 5.4mm, f/3.2, 1/160s, ISO 100. Tendrils of Oregon Manroot looking for something to wind around at Mount Pisgah.

#mbjune Day 29: winding 📷

“Ozymandias”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 35mm, f/11, 1/400s, ISO 640. Along the Rigdon Lakes Trail.

old insulator in the dirt

“Trails for Miles”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 14mm, f/11, 1/400s, ISO 400. Climbing up from Lake Kiwa on the Rigdon Lakes Trail.

lakeside trail with mountains

“A Little Breeze”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 14mm, f/11, 1/200s, ISO 200. Lower Rigdon Lake.

mountain reflected in a lake

The World Is Producing More Food than Ever—but Not for Long

Based on a study published in Nature, Wired reports

For every degree Celsius of warming, global food production is likely to decline by 120 calories per person per day.

Soylent green, anyone?

The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger

An overview of the arguments against the current AI industry. I suspect, though, that those who want to make money from AI will continue to be ascendant whatever the pushback.

“Fleeting"

Olympus E-M10 IV with 60mm f/2.8 macro lens @ f/4.5, 1/150s, ISO 1000. Shot on Amanda’s Trail.

#mbjune Day 28: ephemeral 📷

spiderweb in front of fungus

The Box

Right now this is satire. But it’s not all that far off from what some of the tech bro idiots would like to sell.

Finished: The Fourth Protocol, by Frederick Forsyth 📚. Forsyth died this month, so I tossed this one on the stack to reread. I’m glad I did. Although he was accused of basically rewriting the same book over and over, it’s a pretty good book - in this case, a story of spies, suitcase nukes, and the British establishment. I’ll miss not having new books from him.

Trump signals full steam ahead after momentous Supreme Court decision

No surprise there. Meanwhile I expect a whole lot of class action suits are about to be filed to replace the nationwide injunctions.

“Keep Up!”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 42mm, f/10, 1/800s, ISO 1000. Snowy plovers out for a collective run along the surf at John Dellenbeck Junes.

#mbjune Day 27: collective 📷

Birds on the beach