Photography around churchyards is incredibly interesting and for some reason gets my black and white eyes engaged. Stonework is very textural and therefore loaded with tones. Hence black and white is good.
The Oxeye Daisies amused me, my dark sense of humour reminded me of the phrase “pushing up the daisies”. Is there a connection between that, old English perhaps and their presence in such places?
I’ve often seen the letters JHR on graves, thinking it said LHR which would either mean Left-hand side or London Heathrow. No, none of those! It’s Latin, “Jesus Hominum” something else. I believe it represents Jesus our saviour. If anyone knows, I’d be interested to know!
Nature claiming back the old gravestones live there’s no tomorrow! I love seeing stuff like this, is photographic wonder.
Another one from my archive I really loved which I think was Goring-on-Thames
That’s an absolute beauty! Thanks for sharing, have a great evening!
I quite fancied the orange special edition and it was on a discount at Juno. Fancied one for ages!
These glorious blue doors belong to the church of St James, Finchampstead. I recall a photographer or two producing coffee table books dedicated to random doors around the world.
I think there’s more room for books like that.
A photo of my mates homemade Theremin synth that someone sent to him as a thank you for something he helped them with. It came as a kit and he has had masses of fun with it that’s for sure.
What a glorious tree! I came across this ancient Yew in the graveyard of a church in Aldermaston, Berkshire as part of my church photography project which incidentally is going to be posted here too, as an ongoing series.
Will resume my bridges of the River Thames project too.
Might have fixed it though….
Uploading photos in primal isn’t working for me at the moment and it’s a tad annoying!
Me jamming with a couple of other artists, I’m wearing the rusty coloured fleece over on the right hand side. My synth is the second photo. The other two musicians were playing a Buchla (middle) and a Polyend synth (right) - the Moog Matriarch/Grandmother not sure which of the two it was in this case, can’t remember as it didn’t play a part in the jam.
Did I record it? Sadly not! Someone else might have done.
Right let’s do some more Nostring this week as I’ve neglected it recently. Naughty, I know!
Hope you are all doing ok?
And 2-3% fees into bitcoin and 2-3% out when spending on the card. 🫠
I did see a Lightspark partnership announcement today, which probably means Revolut will be integrating Lightning natively (you'll need nostr:nprofile1qqsra2ey033mkdwl5w8q0jss9ak69zafh82xsuvhwsaauw3trkq2amgpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgcwaehxw309anxjmr5v4ezumn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tck28qzu for that!) and UMA for better fiat tx rails.
That would be impressive if they did introduce lightning payments
Sorry the example didn’t post
The revolut cards are spending fiat though (from your bitcoin account); you won't need nostr:nprofile1qqsra2ey033mkdwl5w8q0jss9ak69zafh82xsuvhwsaauw3trkq2amgpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgcwaehxw309anxjmr5v4ezumn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tck28qzu for that!
Oh! I see! I misread that then!
Have been testing the latest version of Loopy Pro for the iPad recently. It’s a beta version due for release quite soon. Here’s an example.
nostr:nprofile1qqsvlqevtgtern2ywumz5k76c8yhc43atyrupf5thhxmnntpul5ehxcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd3skueqgneuks it’s now possible to spend with your crypto balance as a Revolut customer!
They say:
Spend straight from your crypto balance, wherever you are — with zero exchange fees.
Fair usage fees may apply.
I’m going to try this out somehow. You can now add crypto based virtual cards to your Revolut app and to your phones digital wallet.
I’ll see where I can test this out in the future nostr:nprofile1qqsra2ey033mkdwl5w8q0jss9ak69zafh82xsuvhwsaauw3trkq2amgprpmhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tc7g996k will be the place to look. I believe there’s a pub not far from us that accepts payments via bitcoin.
Let’s see what happens with this new experiment of mine, to sell sample packs online, this is just a little one but I’m working on some beefier selections that I will be selling as Koala projects and as a bundle of zipped up files.
This one features a collection of sounds recorded around my kitchen, that could be used in percussive ways and there are a couple of drone loops in here that were recorded from our fridge.
All you need to do is download the pack from here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-JuYlEYDs1lxKxW0cPdcGOZtWZZs68ef
Please zap in order to pay for the pack, it’s kind of like donationware.
I’m sure there are other ways of selling digital products here, let me know of your favourites and I will try those out in the future.
https://www.gemini.com/blog/gemini-live-in-the-uk so you can use Gemini in the UK, I hadn’t realised that and had a little more time today to have a Quick Look. I’m not signed up with them, as Revolut will do me just fine for now.
Alongside my main bank account Monzo, I also have a Revolut account and I’ve used it to buy bitcoin to transfer to my Strike account and vice versa. When I’ve sold crypto to exchange for GBP, I’ve done it with Revolut. You do need to run through a compliance survey, to ensure you’re not investing more than you can afford etc.
I top up Revolut and have thought about making it my main account but over time I’m going to transfer more fund there and their interest rates are good on savings, well as best as they can be these days but a great source for doing some DCA investing. I have set up a weekly bitcoin purchasing thingy.
I need to work on it a bit more to be honest!
Oh yes of course, Revolut!
Gemini, don’t think so