Being polite?
I will not comment bad things because every body is different in tastes.
I despise over vivid photos but others love them as you do so who am I to say it is wrong?
I am sure the vivid think my photos are too bland and flat.
We all love taking photos to our tastes and that is what is important.
Only when pleasing a paying client you shoot what they like and want and likely you were chosen because of your style.
So keep shooting that vivid.

Just Five More Minutes

So it’s Father’s Day weekend it means so many different things to each of us. I thought I would share my thoughts today because mine are of my own greed I am ashamed to say. Most of you that will read this do not know me at all, but I am going to share a bit of my story. I will be 62 this year and for the past 8 years I have been battling health issues galore. Culminating in the last 2 years while we have all dealt with COVID, I have received diagnosis of fibromyalgia, ruptured L4, in need of knee and possibly hip replacements, peripheral neuropathy(look that one up it’s a doozy) and tongue cancer of which the supposed cure almost killed me and I still got to keep the cancer.

Why did I share all this, it’s not for pity, it’s not for your prayers, it’s because there has not been a single day in the last year that sometime in that 24 hour period I have not wanted to end my life. Then for some reason just out of the blue, it dawned on me today that i have been greedy, It’s Father’s Day weekend I knew it was coming, my dad will have been gone 30 years next year just around this time. Not a single day in those 30 years have I not wished for just five more minutes, five minutes fishing at the lake, five minutes handing sticks of cured tobacco out of the kiln, Just Five More Minutes. Then I wondered, will my daughter want five more minutes when I’m gone?

You will all have your own thoughts this weekend and your own visits with your dad or grand dad. if they are still around. If you’re the son, daughter or grandchild with fathers out there make sure you give them an extra special hug this weekend because those moments aren’t there forever. Me well I’ve spent a year being greedy, have I done enough as a father to be worthy of those five minutes? At that moment I realized my greed when I thought of ending it, have I done all that I could to be worthy of her five more minutes. I am not sure I have and the worst part is, I will not know because I will be gone.

Nobody

The first week of May showed SpaceX Corporation launching another of the Falcon 9 rockets from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This image was taken from Veterans Memorial Park in Titusville, Fl 12 miles due west The bright white clouds are actually a part of the lunar nebula only seen when the second stage of the rocket reaches 85000-95000 feet and the lunar rays are coming over the curvature of the earth to illuminate the exhaust gasses. At this time the rockets speed is around 14,000 mph.
Nikon D850, 24-70mm F/2.8 @ 24mm F20, ISO 100 8 minute exposure

I have Yellow Sorrel that just grows around my yard, Purple Sorrel in pots and the flower bed from plants I dug out of the yard of the house before this one and tiny little ground hugging yellow and purple things I don't know the name of around the yard at times. A variety of others I have planted or in pots (including milkweed) plus Ice Plant along one fence and of course Dandelions and Sow Thistle (they are the same family and their flowers look alike + puff balls).
These were growing in the shade of my west side fence next to a rose bush that just died.
I processed for the veins and details so the colors and saturation went off. But I got the details.
5DIV, Tamron 180macro, 1/1000 @ f/16, ISO-4000
hand held with the less than 1" flowers moving in a slight breeze

I'm wondering if I should rewire this whole computer desk mess. It's working, so maybe I should I leave well enough alone. The problem is that if I want to plug something in to 120v, I have to unplug something else. It's similar with USB.

I have thirteen devices that need power from the wall, and I have a UPS and a bunch of plug-in strips. I also have quite a few USB hubs. I started making a diagram, so I'll see how far I get. I have labels on most of the wires, and that helps a lot.

I see pictures and videos online of people who have beautiful work areas: clean table, monitor, keyboard. How can anyone do any real work with so little? No printers, no scanner, no USB hubs, no backup drives. It's like pictures I see of ideal garage storage. Those garages are cleaner and neater than my house. This will probably be a long-term project, so don't expect to see pictures any time soon.

A perfect example is todays post by artesdecobo on "Brown pelican launch sequence". A series of stunning images, any one of which would be very impressive - exquisitely sharp in detail - you can feel the effort and energy of the bird as it lifts itself into the air. Some Hoggers post these series, others will post one or several images which are probably from a similar series of images. I always have to ask myself: am I looking at a photograph (I guess as I would define a photograph) or an outtake from a video. And when you shoot at 30fps, 20 fps, or even 10 fps you are actually shooting a video... I am torn, though. While it seems advantageous to find one good image out of a series of 30, on the other hand, whether hand-held or using a tripod with a good ballhead, getting such a good series requires its own set of skills.