Generally, unless each thing being documented is dependent on the one before it, I am not in favor of video. A good example is the PCS competition website. Frequently when I need to figure out or remember how to do something, the only documentation is a video for which sometimes I have to view the entire video to find what I’m looking for as opposed to something that is searchable or at least viewable as a list where tapping it takes you to that documentation topic.
Give me a couple of documentation topics, and I will show you an example of how I would document it. Of course, when there are more topics, I will be able to organize it better by topical area. But the example will be a good illustration.
I’m not sure if you changed a setting, but on my iPhone, the posts are now in dark mode (even though the area for composing text is still black text on white).
however, that nice font used for quotes is now so dim against the black background, relative to the other text, that it is barely visible.
It’s probably not readily apparent, but since I could not manually make fonts larger in my post (or change fonts), I composed the topic in my email program and took screenshots of that. The behavior that you see when you hit the + & – is what you see happen to images. It becomes clearer if you try to select text – you can’t. When I viewed this topic on my big screen from 8 feet away, it was very easy to read.
For me, especially at night, it is a real strain on my eyes to read black text on white. I wonder what it would take to have the forum’s appearance match the dark mode/light mode settings.
if and when the font size changes for posting, I will edit and replace the images with text.
I need to hook up my desktop (I’m doing this on my iPhone) so that I can view the main forum page and review the font size change.
I couldn’t tell for certain: do you happen to know if there will be a Dawn Patrol, where several balloons launch a little before dawn? I captured a winning photo of this 7 or 8 years ago from a ridge on The Bishop’s Ranch (on Westside RD, due west of Windsor)?
I wonder if it wouldn’t be too difficult to add a slight motion blur to the train, but not to the stationary railing. Perhaps isolating the railing on a separate layer and compositing it over the speed-blurred image.
“Muenches get the question often: how do we pronounce our name? …As a non-speaker of German, I must improvise. My personal answer is, “Minch, rhymes with pinch!”
First given a 1904 Brownie box camera in 2nd grade (1962) by my maternal grandmother, and later doing darkroom processing for my junior-high & high school yearbooks, I also did the 16mm filming of my high-school football games, which really developed my eye as the camera had to track the ball no matter where the action went.
During my career as a self-educated, self-employed computer technical architect, I only did occasional photos & videos. It was Xmas 2008 when I got my first serious camera: a Canon 5D MkII with 5 lenses.
I am inspired and humbled by 3 photographic greats to whom I’m related: Josef Muench, his son David**, and David’s son Marc (different branch, same ancestral lineage), and endeavor to evolve my own unique style, while growing to achieve equivalent standards of excellence.
My SRPS history coming soon…
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**About David Muench and his photographic influence:
In describing David Muench’s photography, it has been said that David Muench is to color photography as Ansel Adams is to black & white…
“His first Arizona Highways cover was published in January 1955 at the age of 18,[3] and he has continued to work with the magazine since then.[4] In December 2015, to celebrate seven decades of collaboration, Arizona Highways dedicated an entire issue of the magazine to Muench, the first time they had done so for a single person.[5]
At the recommendation of Ansel Adams, more than 200 images by [David] Muench are archived in the collection of the Center for Creative Photography.[6]Â
Although he has done a few exhibits,[7] [David] Muench chose the coffee table book as the main vehicle for his photography.
 [David] Muench’s classic work consists mostly of wild landscapes photographed with a 4×5 film camera. His signature compositional technique is the near-far wide-angle view where a carefully selected foreground ties in with the background.[12][13] He also paid particular attention to the “timeless moments”, times of transition such as sunrise, sunsets, and the edge of storms.[14][15] Other innovations in landscape photography include the use of telephoto lenses, fill light and in-camera double exposures.[16]”
Discovered in the SRPS stuff at LBA&GC are several David Muench coffee table books. I am very thankful to be receiving them as we close out our history at LBA&GC.
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Mine are PNGs and they show up just fine in Safari, but not in Firefox or Brave. This is a conversion of that PNG screenshot to JPG. Its a screenshot of Safari showing that Safari shows a PNG just fine. Are other browsers still graphically deficient, or is it a matter of settings? Research needed.
And then I was able to see my PNG of Nancy’s Yakima train image in all 3 browsers…
Nancy, were you using Safari?
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