One of the locations I visited today was Whitchurch and it’s beautiful bridge. I took a number of photos for a project I’m embarking on this year and into next, to photograph every Thames bridge, of which there are over 160. My aim is to capture a number of regular photos and some that stretch my and the viewers imaginations equally.
When photographing a bridge, what do you do, where do you position yourself and your camera? Do you photograph the bridge from a distance or do you go for some concepts that need to be taken on the bridge or from it.
I took a walk across it and whilst looking down, spotted this opportunity for an image, the contrasting late summer light actually helped in this instance, the light details of the buffers protecting the pillars that hold up the structure versus the dark waters of the River Thames, with the swirling weeds sketching out the flow of the water flowing through.
It’s just so fascinating and makes for an unusual image, very abstract. I shall share the more traditional photos I took tomorrow or when I get time later in the week.
GN.
St Bartholomews Church, Lower Basildon, photographed today - Sony a7r3.
Built of flint and brick 700 years ago, close to the river Thames. Jethro Tull, the father of modern farming, has a memorial here but the whereabouts of his actual grave is unknown. There is a tragic statue of two brothers in swimming trunks who drowned in the river in 1886.
The church is a simple construction and was once a very prosperous parish in the fifteenth century, when parishioners grew rich from the local wool and corn trade.
In the photo you can see that part of the roof has been fitted with corrugated metal, in order to temporarily fix a falling roof.
I wonder if they accept bitcoin donations?
I shall be sharing some more photos from this outing in the days to come.
I’ve got some photos and video to edit for today’s photographic ramble. It all started at Whitchurch on the Thames, found this little spot. Nice.
A golden field of sunflowers taken with my insta360 last weekend and I’ve grabbed this still from the footage. The monopod extends out quite far, so that I can get drone-like angles. I’m going to be gathering more photos from around the area with this camera and other cameras that I own, including a drone.
Well done, that’s an incredible view. Thanks for being the first person to send me zaps since I joined Nostr by the way. Made my day!
Now this is interesting as I’ve been trying out their email tools for a little while
Yep it’s all still working. Fellow UK nostrich.
Fantastic stuff, I love this.
Walking along the River Kennet last night and came across this plant, which I think might be a Miscanthus of some sort, it’s got similarities to bamboo, albeit with much finer stems.
#bloomscrolling #photography #rivers #kennet #nature
Ah right, thanks, I’ll dig into that and see if I can get it working. Cheers.
https://firstmanphotography.com/blog/why-do-we-accept-bitcoin/ sharing here to read later.
#asknostr
nostr:note12eudyf7pm7n2sfq8vvjv2rcmfffpvdxu85dtlea0hqh2t30kjdys4d8fvq
I have started working on a video series about music making on the iPad using AUv3 plugins. In this one, I talk about chord progressions and how to build them using the Progressions app.
#music #ipad
Exploring the River Kennet this evening near the village of Woolhampton and came across this interesting old World War II pillbox on opposite bank.
A link to the details on Wikimedia- https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4902424
Testing out some different NOSTR apps that work well for iPhone and iPad. Interesting to note that I’m using a different app on the iPad to the one I use not the iPhone. Nostur is good for the larger screen as it makes full use of the space, two columns.
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Thanks, no answers yet, which is a pity.
Thanks that’s really useful because I’ve setup a Voltage account earlier last month and just need to get my head around it. The only thing that hasn’t worked so far is the free channel, that is still setting up many weeks later but when thinking about it this might be due to the size of data it needs to pull in from across the chain.
I’m treating Nostr as a sort of blog for all of the things I’m working on, photography, music and technology as a whole.
I managed to get a wallet on Primal.net today, which wasn’t available a month back.
Excuse the brain dump. I have been grappling with how to entice potential readers/customers on my website to try out Nostr. Nostr as in social media, because tht is how it is pitched (I hink wrongly, but hey, I justturned up!!) . My conclusion is that it is super easy to show someone to sign up to Amethyst say, but once signed up, what then? They look at a bunch of posts that may or may not make a good first impression.
And if I say, to find me on Nostr, to see a feed you might identify with, just copy and paste a (mental long wtf) npub key? Compared to @XYZ that's a massive first hurdle right there, to enthuse a normie FB user into grappling with a move onto Nostr social media. And we arent even at signing back in or event signers yet!
But like you, I had a light bulb moment. A trip through the apps on https://nostr.net/ is golden and inspired me to see Nostr in a new light, or as I suspect, the original light before the focus on social media clouded the overall (marketing) vision?
I set up a web page yesterday, my attempt to woo potential new customers (zero tech heads) to try out Nostr via the world of other Nostr apps. Apart from going to home pages, they don't need to do anything to get a good first impression of what's available. Signing up for a Pinterest-like experience is not necessary. Just to see that there is a Pinterest on Nostr is pretty cool in itself. Spin through a few more. Mrs Jones from FaceBook is much more likely, in my view to be open to scarier terms like npubs and event signers etc.
Im not dissing the Twitter-killer apps, at all, but think about it, social media is becoming poison because of how they do it on the other side. I did use to avoid social media like the plague. Nostr does social media right, honest, mate. I think that, really, but say it outloud to your mother, its not an easy sell. However saying that Nostr does Pinterest or form-filling right, thats more credible, no? Anyway, this is my pitch on my site.
"In the tech world Nostr is best known as a "Twitter-killer" or the social media app built by Bitcoiners. I used to avoid social media like the plague, but Nostr is far from the gruesome Wild West experience it is portrayed as. Sure, there are a lot of Bitcoin enthusiasts and developers, but there's great conversation to be had on all sorts. And once I started to use hashags: #olives, #gardening, #chickens #catsr, or #asknostr, well, horizons have really opened up.
(I show a nice pic of Amethyst for mobile, Satellite for desktop social media.)
But Nostr apps are the big surprise.
Nostr is actually a protocol that enables the construction of a new internet. An internet many say we sorely need.
Nostr developers are releasing Twitter-killer, everything-killer apps on Nostr, almost daily. It is still very early in terms of choice, but I am very happy to incorporate the examples listed below into my business work flow.
I follow with a quick spin through the apps that I am using or getting into.
Lumina as a photo gallery
Memester for fun inspiration
Pinstr for pins no surprise
Pollstr
Mapstr
Formstr
Habla.news for long form posts
I give the 1-2 how to sign into Nostr apps. And a link to a more expansive How To use Nostr and sign into apps secure and fast. Thats it.
Re-reading my pitches for Mrs Jones on FB to join Nostr social media from cold now sounds faintly ridiculous. But if she has been wooed by other apps, she is more likely to answer the call to install Amethyst or whatever, so I can at least DM her when her eggs are coming.
At the moment my website is on Ghost,which is pretty damn good. And I will need Whatsapp to send updates on delivery times. But if I can get my site onto Nostr with npub.pro bring it on. Because then I can really consolidate the business side of things. Customers will have the whole billing and zap payment option on the same page too.
This protocol has got my vote.
Apologies I was going to write more! Then got it interrupted!
Excuse the brain dump. I have been grappling with how to entice potential readers/customers on my website to try out Nostr. Nostr as in social media, because tht is how it is pitched (I hink wrongly, but hey, I justturned up!!) . My conclusion is that it is super easy to show someone to sign up to Amethyst say, but once signed up, what then? They look at a bunch of posts that may or may not make a good first impression.
And if I say, to find me on Nostr, to see a feed you might identify with, just copy and paste a (mental long wtf) npub key? Compared to @XYZ that's a massive first hurdle right there, to enthuse a normie FB user into grappling with a move onto Nostr social media. And we arent even at signing back in or event signers yet!
But like you, I had a light bulb moment. A trip through the apps on https://nostr.net/ is golden and inspired me to see Nostr in a new light, or as I suspect, the original light before the focus on social media clouded the overall (marketing) vision?
I set up a web page yesterday, my attempt to woo potential new customers (zero tech heads) to try out Nostr via the world of other Nostr apps. Apart from going to home pages, they don't need to do anything to get a good first impression of what's available. Signing up for a Pinterest-like experience is not necessary. Just to see that there is a Pinterest on Nostr is pretty cool in itself. Spin through a few more. Mrs Jones from FaceBook is much more likely, in my view to be open to scarier terms like npubs and event signers etc.
Im not dissing the Twitter-killer apps, at all, but think about it, social media is becoming poison because of how they do it on the other side. I did use to avoid social media like the plague. Nostr does social media right, honest, mate. I think that, really, but say it outloud to your mother, its not an easy sell. However saying that Nostr does Pinterest or form-filling right, thats more credible, no? Anyway, this is my pitch on my site.
"In the tech world Nostr is best known as a "Twitter-killer" or the social media app built by Bitcoiners. I used to avoid social media like the plague, but Nostr is far from the gruesome Wild West experience it is portrayed as. Sure, there are a lot of Bitcoin enthusiasts and developers, but there's great conversation to be had on all sorts. And once I started to use hashags: #olives, #gardening, #chickens #catsr, or #asknostr, well, horizons have really opened up.
(I show a nice pic of Amethyst for mobile, Satellite for desktop social media.)
But Nostr apps are the big surprise.
Nostr is actually a protocol that enables the construction of a new internet. An internet many say we sorely need.
Nostr developers are releasing Twitter-killer, everything-killer apps on Nostr, almost daily. It is still very early in terms of choice, but I am very happy to incorporate the examples listed below into my business work flow.
I follow with a quick spin through the apps that I am using or getting into.
Lumina as a photo gallery
Memester for fun inspiration
Pinstr for pins no surprise
Pollstr
Mapstr
Formstr
Habla.news for long form posts
I give the 1-2 how to sign into Nostr apps. And a link to a more expansive How To use Nostr and sign into apps secure and fast. Thats it.
Re-reading my pitches for Mrs Jones on FB to join Nostr social media from cold now sounds faintly ridiculous. But if she has been wooed by other apps, she is more likely to answer the call to install Amethyst or whatever, so I can at least DM her when her eggs are coming.
At the moment my website is on Ghost,which is pretty damn good. And I will need Whatsapp to send updates on delivery times. But if I can get my site onto Nostr with npub.pro bring it on. Because then I can really consolidate the business side of things. Customers will have the whole billing and zap payment option on the same page too.
This protocol has got my vote.
I’m pretty much in the same place right now and found your note really interesting