To get this shot I had to park illegally, run out in the pouring rain. Then walk almost a mile only to realize I forgot my memory card, buy a memory card, go back to this spot, back to wallgreens because the friggen memory card was bad, then back here to fight with an incredibly fogged up lens for another half hour. I was absolutely drenched.

I'm not sure what kind of bird this is, but he kind of started me when I looked over. I was totally expecting him to take off before I could get my camera pointed over that we but he didn't seem bothered by me. Then Ryder 🐾 seen him and tried going swimming.

A military expert says ALPR systems like Flock and Axon are the same as military systems they used against foreign enemies. Pattern-of-life analysis was how they targeted and killed the enemy. And now they are pointing these killing systems at we the people. "I swore an oath to the Constitution of the United States. That oath did not end just because I took off my uniform. That is why I traveled to these chambers -because I have used a comparable system against American enemies and I know what it's capable of, and I can see the danger of pointing the system at the American people."

I thought that I was going to scout this lighthouse for blue hour for when the lighthouse light is illuminated. It turned out that I liked this photo so much that I got to move on to other locations. Which indirectly led to last night. I'm so stoked to go through the photos of last night!

I missed the first day of fall because I was out taking photos of the first day of fall. Happy second day of fall :).

A bunch of unelected, unaccountable, inbred econ cultists who pulled a magic 2% inflation-model target out of their butts while impoverishing 340M Americans & protecting global billionaire bankers in order to eventually get rewarded at Pimco, giving speeches for $400k a pop.

I was blessed to see the best sunset of the year and one of the best that I've seen. It was just at a run of the mill flat lake, so I was incessantly looking for intersecting lines and a pleasurable composition. What I was seeing was the way the orange light was bouncing off and enhancing the shoreline. Hopefully you like it.

Sorry I've been slow to get back to everyone, I'm in northern Michigan with no reception at the same time the tree canopies have the final say whether my Starlink works, and they said no. Anyway here's a photo of an icy morning with a whole bunch of fog and flowers which are kind of rare to see all together.

Truest statement I’ve read all day.

Stillness...

Subcommittee members @tedcruz, @amyklobuchar, @SenatorDurbin, @SenKatieBritt, @MarshaBlackburn, and @JohnCornyn, all support CORCA—a bill to expand federal funding for Flock cameras and centralize the data at a new national surveillance center under DHS. congress.gov/bill/119th-cong…

When the sun cuts through the leaves and branches on a day with lots of humidity, dust, or pollen you can get an effect like Godrays at sunset. In this case I was waiting for like an hour for another truck to come down this dusty road after I seen the effect it was giving. The lighting was just incredible.

This little pond inside of Crater Lake somehow steals the show. The blues of this place are absolutely incredible.

Here's two different worlds in one photograph. My lens was halfway in the water which was quite nerve wracking.

I hope you're not tired of seeing rocks yet because I love rocks, even though I know little about them. This might sound a bit odd to you, but sometimes I try not to learn about some places that I photograph to keep my logical mind out of the equation when I'm photographing a location. For example if I'm thinking about what kind of rocks and how they formed, then my mind isn't focused on the light.

The cactus looks like it is intently watching over it's land. I honestly didn't know they could grow at that type of elevation 🤷

Laguna Beach isn't the first place that comes to mind when you think of cattle like structures but here we are. I accidentally stumbled upon this location, which I enjoy more than finding a spot on maps then navigating there.

If Sen. Josh Hawley actually cares about stopping Flock cameras, he can propose an amendment to the Senate version of the $580 billion, five-year reauthorization of federal surface transportation programs, which has yet to be written. The amendment is: "A recipient of assistance under Title 23, United States Code, may not use automated license plate readers for any purpose other than tolling." Simply put, this amendment would withhold about $ 1 billion in annual Federal funding for roads in that state if it used ALPR cameras for anything other than toll roads. Most likely, zero states would turn down $1 billion a year to keep Flock or ALPR cameras, so this would effectively ban them. @HawleyMO, will you take this action?

Hackers ripped a Flock camera off a pole, dumped what was stored on it, and handed the files to WIRED and 404 Media. One camera. 21 days. ~50,000 vehicles. 1.6 million images. About 3,300 cars a day. Peak day: 4,454. Flock sold this as “license plate readers” with on-device encryption. The software on that box wasn’t just reading plates. It was tagging vehicles, bikes, and people. Dozens of shots of a single car. Bumper stickers. Even an American flag patch on a motorcycle bag. They put the encryption key on the camera. Then acted shocked when somebody opened it.

We live on the best planet!

Is anyone else a huge fan ofsand dunes? There's something about when the light hits them right and illuminates the one side and brings out all of the textures.