Saturday, August 02, 2025

All the photo bloggers have gone "OT" or Off Topic!!!! I don't give a hoot about Electric Vehicles so I decided to write about my new shoes...

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  These are my new, Hoka Stinson 7, trail running shoes. In 1976 I bought my first pair of Nike Waffle Trainers. There were a revolutionary ...
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Friday, August 01, 2025

The blog is back and I'm back at work. "They keep pulling me back in...."

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  The best, and cheapest photo backpack I have ever acquired... From Bagsmart. Via Amazon.  Info here! By the first of July I'd pretty m...
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Hello again. If you are reading this we must have survived the page view nightmare of 2025. Welcome back.

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Observed while walking past the JW Marriott Hotel in Downtown Austin.  It's been a while. I've been chilling here in Austin waiting ...
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Thursday, July 31, 2025

I get asked all the time if the lens in the Leica Q2 is really sharp or not. Is it really 28mm or not. Are the files worth the high price of the camera?

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 Yes. Yes. And I have no idea if the value proposition of a five year old camera that's still selling new for roughly $6000 is worth it ...
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Wrote this in 2015. I mentioned, in detail, that consumer drones would eventually be weaponized and used for war or terrorism. I got lots of "Freedom" push back. Now? Drones are mainstream weapons of choice. Read it for yourself.

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  https://visualsciencelab.blogspot.com/2015/06/can-we-talk-about-drones-and.html
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My friend, James, is brilliant and has created a huge gallery of A.I. assisted images meant to be an "answer" to the idea and practice of social media influencers.

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 Go here:  https://jameswebb.smugmug.com/GenAI-Images Look at the work.  Laugh, cry.  But look at the skill with which James conceives and t...
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Sunday, July 20, 2025

VSL Blog will be non-responsive for the rest of July. No new posts. Be sure to check back on August 1st! More info? Here's why... (Added: July30: Light at the end of the tunnel. The page view nightmare seems to be winding down...). KT

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The page view mystery is out of control. We're getting over 100,000 page views per day.  That would be great if they were coming from al...
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