#silhouettes — Public Fediverse posts
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One of my favourite things to do while I was staying in Lovina, Bali was to sit down by the water at sunset, enjoy a cold Bintang and take a few photos. Here's a few from one of the best sunsets I experienced while I was there
#sunset #sunsetphotography #silhouettes #lovinabali #sonya7ii #tamron2875mmf28g2
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One of my favourite things to do while I was staying in Lovina, Bali was to sit down by the water at sunset, enjoy a cold Bintang and take a few photos. Here's a few from one of the best sunsets I experienced while I was there
#sunset #sunsetphotography #silhouettes #lovinabali #sonya7ii #tamron2875mmf28g2
#landscapephotography #travelphotography #beer -
boston area, massachusetts
august 1958"airborne tumult"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/268833387
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/51837649477/part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com#photography #film #bw #blackandwhite #mediumformat #boston #massachusetts #sky #clouds #trees #hilltop #landscape #horizon #silhouettes #1950s
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boston area, massachusetts
august 1958"airborne tumult"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/268833387
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/51837649477/part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com#photography #film #bw #blackandwhite #mediumformat #boston #massachusetts #sky #clouds #trees #hilltop #landscape #horizon #silhouettes #1950s
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boston area, massachusetts
august 1958"airborne tumult"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/268833387
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/51837649477/part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com#photography #film #bw #blackandwhite #mediumformat #boston #massachusetts #sky #clouds #trees #hilltop #landscape #horizon #silhouettes #1950s
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boston area, massachusetts
august 1958"airborne tumult"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/268833387
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/51837649477/part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com#photography #film #bw #blackandwhite #mediumformat #boston #massachusetts #sky #clouds #trees #hilltop #landscape #horizon #silhouettes #1950s
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#carriage is more opposed to #silhouettes than to #iphoneI.
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#carriage is more opposed to #silhouettes than to #iphoneI.
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#digitalphotography #photomanipulation #Nightglow #doubleexposure #nightphotography #photopainting #surreal #abstract #vegetation #hanging #leaves #lowlight #silhouettes #hangingleaves #minimalist #snake #serpent #acrossthestreet #minimalist #stjohns #portland #nogenerativeai
Midnight in the Garden of Eden
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#digitalphotography #photomanipulation #Nightglow #doubleexposure #nightphotography #photopainting #surreal #abstract #vegetation #hanging #leaves #lowlight #silhouettes #hangingleaves #minimalist #snake #serpent #acrossthestreet #minimalist #stjohns #portland #nogenerativeai
Midnight in the Garden of Eden
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Alberta legislature grounds by George Stastny. Photographer.
https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxjVXa4Leq00
#street #streetphotography #streets #shadows #silhouettes #streetphoto #sunset #streetphotographer #shadow #silhouette #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw #bw #canada #canpubphoto #candid #edmonton #alberta #leica #leicaq2m #leicaq2monochrom #flickr #thingsdavidlikes
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Alberta legislature grounds by George Stastny. Photographer.
https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxjVXa4Leq00
#street #streetphotography #streets #shadows #silhouettes #streetphoto #sunset #streetphotographer #shadow #silhouette #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw #bw #canada #canpubphoto #candid #edmonton #alberta #leica #leicaq2m #leicaq2monochrom #flickr #thingsdavidlikes
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Good morning. 🦆🪿🦢
5 June 2026
I’m sleepy — just being honest. I could go right back to bed. I keep closing my eyes mid‑sentence. When I was working, there were times I’d nod off while typing and wake up to a long string of random characters on the screen. That’s exactly how I feel right now. Probably time to swallow a good gulp of coffee.
Hmm… “Gulp of Coffee.” I wonder if that would work as a new name for the Gulf of Mexico. Coffee cultivation is mostly south of the gulf, so maybe it fits. I can almost hear someone saying, “The fleet sails on the Gulp of Coffee.” I’m just throwing it out there — imaginary names for the Gulf of Mexico seem to be all the rage these days.
My first cup of coffee is almost gone now, and I’m finally starting to become alert. It reminds me of some of the truly horrid, stupid, silly jokes I heard in the Army — the kind that, for reasons still unknown to me, actually got a laugh. Jokes like, “What is a lert? Is it a small furry animal?” Ridiculous, I know. It doesn’t even come close to being a logical, well‑crafted joke. More like something a kid would come up with. It all came from “alerts” being those big periodic events where units get recalled.
And here’s another one: “What kind of animal is a Nauga?” You know — the creature that supposedly provides “nauga hide.” It was a play on Naugahyde, that vinyl‑coated artificial leather that was popular in the 20th century. Like I said, a lot of our jokes were painfully lame, but somehow we still found them hilarious.
And bingo — just like that, I hit my character quota for the morning.
“Coffee first. Schemes later.” — Leanna Renee Hieber
“Reality is frequently inaccurate.” — Douglas Adams
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” — George Carlin
#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #morning #ducks #silhouettes #coffee #humor #sleepiness
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Good morning. 🦆🪿🦢
5 June 2026
I’m sleepy — just being honest. I could go right back to bed. I keep closing my eyes mid‑sentence. When I was working, there were times I’d nod off while typing and wake up to a long string of random characters on the screen. That’s exactly how I feel right now. Probably time to swallow a good gulp of coffee.
Hmm… “Gulp of Coffee.” I wonder if that would work as a new name for the Gulf of Mexico. Coffee cultivation is mostly south of the gulf, so maybe it fits. I can almost hear someone saying, “The fleet sails on the Gulp of Coffee.” I’m just throwing it out there — imaginary names for the Gulf of Mexico seem to be all the rage these days.
My first cup of coffee is almost gone now, and I’m finally starting to become alert. It reminds me of some of the truly horrid, stupid, silly jokes I heard in the Army — the kind that, for reasons still unknown to me, actually got a laugh. Jokes like, “What is a lert? Is it a small furry animal?” Ridiculous, I know. It doesn’t even come close to being a logical, well‑crafted joke. More like something a kid would come up with. It all came from “alerts” being those big periodic events where units get recalled.
And here’s another one: “What kind of animal is a Nauga?” You know — the creature that supposedly provides “nauga hide.” It was a play on Naugahyde, that vinyl‑coated artificial leather that was popular in the 20th century. Like I said, a lot of our jokes were painfully lame, but somehow we still found them hilarious.
And bingo — just like that, I hit my character quota for the morning.
“Coffee first. Schemes later.” — Leanna Renee Hieber
“Reality is frequently inaccurate.” — Douglas Adams
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” — George Carlin
#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #morning #ducks #silhouettes #coffee #humor #sleepiness
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Walking off into the sunset by V Photography and Art
https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxjLjI8ZCm00
#couple #silhouettes #cityscape #sunset #sunsetwatching #ferriswheel #flickr #thingsdavidlikes
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Walking off into the sunset by V Photography and Art
https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxjLjI8ZCm00
#couple #silhouettes #cityscape #sunset #sunsetwatching #ferriswheel #flickr #thingsdavidlikes
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Relax, Don’t Do It
Beach Scene
L’Almanarre, Hyères, French Riviera#summer #beach #sand #sea #Mediterraneansea #bathers #tourists #umbrella #feet #relax #water #quiet #silhouettes #sun
#photography #blackandwhitephotography #bnwphotography #monochrome #naturephotography #seascapephotography #landscapephotography
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Relax, Don’t Do It
Beach Scene
L’Almanarre, Hyères, French Riviera#summer #beach #sand #sea #Mediterraneansea #bathers #tourists #umbrella #feet #relax #water #quiet #silhouettes #sun
#photography #blackandwhitephotography #bnwphotography #monochrome #naturephotography #seascapephotography #landscapephotography
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Beach Scene
L’Aygade, Hyères, French Riviera#summer #beach #sand #sea #Mediterraneansea #bathers #tourists #umbrella #pebbles #water #chairs #quiet #silhouettes #sun
#photography #blackandwhitephotography #bnwphotography #monochrome #naturephotography #seascapephotography #landscapephotography
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The leaves on the trees in our park are a fair bit later to appear than those of trees further south, but it does allow for some quite nice silhouettes.
A stroll with the kids yesterday evening.
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Yesterday #morning, the #Predawn #sky on the #EasternHorizon was very colourful and so I took these #photographs, with prominent #Pink, #Orange and a bit of #Grey in front of the #Blue. The #silhouettes of #trees and #buildings adds some dark contrast to the #foreground.
#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Spring #Sunrise #East #Clouds
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Yesterday #morning, the #Predawn #sky on the #EasternHorizon was very colourful and so I took these #photographs, with prominent #Pink, #Orange and a bit of #Grey in front of the #Blue. The #silhouettes of #trees and #buildings adds some dark contrast to the #foreground.
#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Spring #Sunrise #East #Clouds
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Yesterday #morning, the #Predawn #sky on the #EasternHorizon was very colourful and so I took these #photographs, with prominent #Pink, #Orange and a bit of #Grey in front of the #Blue. The #silhouettes of #trees and #buildings adds some dark contrast to the #foreground.
#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Spring #Sunrise #East #Clouds
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Yesterday #morning, the #Predawn #sky on the #EasternHorizon was very colourful and so I took these #photographs, with prominent #Pink, #Orange and a bit of #Grey in front of the #Blue. The #silhouettes of #trees and #buildings adds some dark contrast to the #foreground.
#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Spring #Sunrise #East #Clouds
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Yesterday #morning, the #Predawn #sky on the #EasternHorizon was very colourful and so I took these #photographs, with prominent #Pink, #Orange and a bit of #Grey in front of the #Blue. The #silhouettes of #trees and #buildings adds some dark contrast to the #foreground.
#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Spring #Sunrise #East #Clouds
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“You get what you measure”*…
Matt Stoller takes the occasion of Trump’s selection of Kevin Warsh to head the Fed (“an orthodox Wall Street GOP pick, though he is married to the billionaire heiress of the Estee Lauder fortune and was named in the Epstein files. He’s perceived not as a Trump loyalist but as an avatar of capital”) to ponder why public satisfaction with the economy is so low (“if you judge solely by consumer sentiment, Trump’s first term was the third best economy Americans experienced since 1960. Trump’s second term is not only worse than his first, it is the worst economic management ever recorded by this indicator”).
Stoller argues that we’re mesuring the wrong things (or, in some cases, the right things in the wrong ways)…
… the models underpinning how policymakers think about the economy just don’t reflect the realities of modern commerce. The fundamental dynamic is that those models were constructed in an era where America was one discrete economy, with Wall Street and the public tied together by the housing finance system. But today, Americans increasingly live in tiered bubbles that have less and less to do with one another. Warsh will essentially be looking at the wrong indicators, pushing buttons that are mislabeled.
While corporate America is experiencing good times, much of the country is experiencing recessionary conditions. Let’s contrast consumer sentiment indicators with statistics showing an economic boom. Last week, the government came out with stats on real gross domestic product increasing at a scorching 4.4% in the third quarter of last year. There’s higher consumer spending, corporate investment, government spending, and a better trade balance. Inflation, according to the Consumer Price Index, is low at 2.6.% over the past year. And while official numbers aren’t out for the final three months of the year, the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow forecast shows that it estimates growth at 4.2%. And there are other indicators showing prosperity, from low unemployment to high business formation, which was up about 8% last year, as well as record corporate profits…
… Behavioral economists and psychologists have all sorts of reasons to explain that people don’t really understand the economy particularly well. But in general, when the stats and the public mood conflict, I believe the public is usually correct. Often, there are some weird anomalies with the data used by policymakers. In 2023, I noticed that the consumer price index, the typical measure of inflation, didn’t account for borrowing costs, so the Fed hike cycle, which caused increases in credit card, mortgage, auto loan, payday loans, et al, just wasn’t incorporated. The public wasn’t mad at phantom inflation, they were mad at real inflation that the “experts” didn’t see.
I don’t think that’s the only miscalculation…
[Stoller goes on to explain the ways in which “consumer spending” doesn’t tell us much about consumers anymore, about the painful reality of “spending inequality,” and about the obscure(d) problem of monopoly-driven inflation. He concludes…]
… Finally, there’s a more philosophical point, which I don’t think explains the short-term frustrations people feel, but is directionally correct. Do people actually want what the economy is producing? For most of the 20th century, the answer was yes. When Simon Kuznets invented these measurement statistics in 1934, financial value and the value that Americans placed on products and services were similar. A bigger economy meant things like toilets and electricity spreading across rural America, and cars and food and washing machines.
Today? Well, that’s less clear. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the second fastest growing sector of the economy in terms of GDP growth from 2019-2024 was gambling. Philip Pilkington wrote a good essay last summer on the moral assumptions behind our growth statistics. There is no agreed upon notion of what makes up an economically valuable object or activity, so our stats are inherently subtle moral judgments. Classic moral philosophers like Adam Smith believed in the “use value” of an item, meaning how it could be used, whereas neoclassical economists believed in the “exchange value” of an item, making no judgments about use and are just counting up its market price.
Normal people subscribe on a moral level to use value. Most of us see someone spending money on a gambling addiction as doing something worse than providing Christmas presents for kids, but not because of price. However, our GDP models use the market value basis. Kuznets, presumably, was not amoral, he just thought that our laws would ban immoral activities like gambling, and so use value and market value wouldn’t diverge. But they have.
It’s not just things like gambling or pornography or speculation. A lot of previously unmeasured activity has been turned into data and monetized, which isn’t actually increasing real growth but measuring what already existed. Take the change from meeting someone at a party to using a dating app. One is part of GDP, the other isn’t. Both are real, but only one would show a bigger economy.
Beyond that much of our economy is now based on intangibles – the fastest growing sector was software publishing. Is Microsoft moving to a subscription fee model for Office truly some sort of groundbreaking new product? It’s hard to say, while corporate assets used to be hard things like factories, today much of it is intangibles like intellectual property.
A boomcession, where the rich and corporate America experience a boom while working people feel a recession, is a very unhealthy dynamic. It’s certainly possible to create metrics to measure it, and to help policymakers understand real income growth among different subgroups. You could start looking at real income after non-discretionary consumer spending, or find ways of adjusting for price discrimination.
But I think a better approach is to try to knit us into one society again. The kinds of policymakers who could try to create metrics to understand the different experiences of classes, and ameliorate them, don’t have power. Instead, the people in charge still use models which presume one economy and one relatively uniform set of prices, where “consumer spending” means stuff consumers want.
I once noted a speech in 2016 by then-Fed Chair Janet Yellen in which she expressed surprise that powerful rich firms and small weak ones had different borrowing rates, which affected the “monetary transmission channel” the Fed relied on. Sure it was obvious in the real world, but she preferred theory.
Or they don’t use models at all; Kevin Warsh is not an economist, he’s a lawyer and political operative, and is uninterested in academic theory. He cares about corporate profits and capital formation. That probably won’t work out well either.
At any rate, we have to start measuring what matters again. If we don’t, then we’ll continue to be baffled that normal people hate the economy that looks fine on our charts…
The models used by policymakers to understand wages, economic growth, and consumer spending are misleading. That’s why corporate America is having a party, and everyone else is mad. Eminently worth reading in full: “The Boomcession: Why Americans Hate What Looks Like an Economic Boom,” from @matthewstoller.bsky.social (or @mattstoller.skystack.xyz).
* Richard Hamming (and also to the article above, see “Goodhart’s law“)
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As we ponder the pecuniary, we might recall that it was on this date in 1958 that Benelux Economic Union was founded, creating the seed from the European Economic Community, then the European Union grew.
On that same day, Philadelphia doo wop group The Silhouettes started five weeks at the top of the Billboard R&B chart with their first single, “Get A Job.”
https://youtu.be/ysKhbaLyIFw?si=obKAiTS4gb6n4cQB
#Benelux #BeneluxEconomicUnion #business #consumerConfidence #consumerPriceIndex #culture #economicPolicy #economics #EuropeanEconomicCommunity #EuropeanUnion #FederalReserve #GetAJob #history #inflation #measurement #monetaryPolicy #music #politics #RAndB #silhouettes #statistics #TheSilhouettes -
Geese In Flight North Dakota @DebraMartz
The large oval-shaped structure is visible from I-94, standing 110 feet tall and 150 feet wide.
https://debra-martz.pixels.com/featured/geese-in-flight-north-dakota-debra-martz.html#sculpture #enchantedHighway #NorthDakota #metalart #geese #silhouettes #photography #buyintoart #giftideas #touristy
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Arches and people in 📍 Bergamo, Italy
#streetPhotography #street #photography #urban #urbanPhotography #city #visualStorytelling #streetStories #people #silhouette #silhouettes #shadows #lightAndShadow #travel #travelPhotography #travelLovers #travelStories
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This is the sunset of the same day. This time there is a pink area above the horizon on the left and the yellow and orange on the right. with #ALText: #inclusion is #fairness :) #BlueskyKin #sunset #treePeople #silhouettes #landscape #naturelovers
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GM fam, have a fulfilling day! Just before today's #Sunrise in the #backyard. This time the #silhouettes of other parts of the large #birch #tree and distant #trees can be seen. See #ALText for more, please: #inclusion is #fairness :) #BlueskyKin #treePeople #landscape #naturelovers
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Painting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#kunst #contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #analogArt #painting #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanRights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #chainsaw #workers #labourers #decapitation #screamingLoud #screamingHeads #screamingMen #shadows #silhouettes -
Sunset Fishing at Ballycotton Pier
A series of photos showing men fishing off the pier at Ballycotton, Co Cork a couple of weeks ago. It was a beautiful evening. Lovely time to be there.
Apertureƒ/8CameraILCE-7RM5Focal length24mmISO100Shutter speed1/320s#2025 #anglers #Ballycotton #BallycottonPier #BlarneyPhotographyClub #coastalFishing #Cork #CountyCork #dramaticSky #EastCork #eveningFishing #fishing #goldenHour #harbourCrane #Ireland #IrishCoast #Photo #Photography #pierFishing #silhouettes #SonyA7RV #stormClouds #sunset
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Four by Mattiii photo
https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxhxjBtvyu00
#s #street #streetphoto #streetphotography #streetphotographer #streetshot #streets #streetitalia #streetph #streetshots #streetphotograph #streetparma #streetlife #streetimage #streephotographer #streetminimal #strada #streethsot #streetpassioneadwards #shadow #shadows #shadowshunter #shot #silhouette #silohuette #silhouettes #four #parma #italia #italy
