John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻
@johnbeardsworth.bsky.social
Taking photos, writing about photos, brewing strong beer, making perfect tortelloni, knowing everything (yeah?) about Lightroom and Photoshop, following United, drinking Vimto, missing Thorntons
Photographer Sally Mann on Desert Island Discs www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... "Stop calling me controversial".
Also see www.npr.org/2025/09/24/n...
Also see www.npr.org/2025/09/24/n...
Desert Island Discs - Sally Mann, photographer and writer - BBC Sounds
Sally Mann, photographer and writer, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Photographer Sally Mann on Desert Island Discs www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... "Stop calling me controversial".
Also see www.npr.org/2025/09/24/n...
Also see www.npr.org/2025/09/24/n...
At the London Leica gallery, it's the last few days of Joel Meyerowitz's London pics with their EV1 - ends on the 6th.
November 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
At the London Leica gallery, it's the last few days of Joel Meyerowitz's London pics with their EV1 - ends on the 6th.
@rogerprotz.bsky.social Reading your Camra article on Jennings's revival, you mention they originated in Lorton. Well, the old brewery was split into the pink cottages here - Corner, Nutshell and Yan Yak (one oak in Cumbrian, I think). A little local detail to mull over with a Snecklifter!
November 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
@rogerprotz.bsky.social Reading your Camra article on Jennings's revival, you mention they originated in Lorton. Well, the old brewery was split into the pink cottages here - Corner, Nutshell and Yan Yak (one oak in Cumbrian, I think). A little local detail to mull over with a Snecklifter!
In Photoshop beta - using Generative Fill which can now call Google's "Nano Banana" AI model.
All I did was select the pic and type "Make this look like a sunny day and add deep blue skies and fluffy clouds".
The blue isn't great, but after 33 years using Photoshop, I can fix that the old way...
All I did was select the pic and type "Make this look like a sunny day and add deep blue skies and fluffy clouds".
The blue isn't great, but after 33 years using Photoshop, I can fix that the old way...
October 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
In Photoshop beta - using Generative Fill which can now call Google's "Nano Banana" AI model.
All I did was select the pic and type "Make this look like a sunny day and add deep blue skies and fluffy clouds".
The blue isn't great, but after 33 years using Photoshop, I can fix that the old way...
All I did was select the pic and type "Make this look like a sunny day and add deep blue skies and fluffy clouds".
The blue isn't great, but after 33 years using Photoshop, I can fix that the old way...
The origins of Photoshop are rather sweet www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqf6...
Russell Preston Brown, John & Thomas Knoll: Inside the Photoshop Origin Story | Adobe Photoshop
YouTube video by Adobe Photoshop
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September 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The origins of Photoshop are rather sweet www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqf6...
August 16, 2025 at 9:07 AM
@bakerpictures.bsky.social Red Rebel Brigade, which is what I think I said
August 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
@bakerpictures.bsky.social Red Rebel Brigade, which is what I think I said
Not wanting to wait till the road's cleared, it's a quick walk to a junction and a different bus. 100m later a Tesla whacks into the side (probably not vice versa).
Walked the rest of the way.
2/2
Walked the rest of the way.
2/2
July 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Not wanting to wait till the road's cleared, it's a quick walk to a junction and a different bus. 100m later a Tesla whacks into the side (probably not vice versa).
Walked the rest of the way.
2/2
Walked the rest of the way.
2/2
So after the taxi hit the Lime bike (or vice versa) this morning....
The bus home is due in a minute, until a car is let through a line of traffic to turn right and there's a big clunk as it collides with a motorcyclist (or vice versa).
1/2
The bus home is due in a minute, until a car is let through a line of traffic to turn right and there's a big clunk as it collides with a motorcyclist (or vice versa).
1/2
July 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
So after the taxi hit the Lime bike (or vice versa) this morning....
The bus home is due in a minute, until a car is let through a line of traffic to turn right and there's a big clunk as it collides with a motorcyclist (or vice versa).
1/2
The bus home is due in a minute, until a car is let through a line of traffic to turn right and there's a big clunk as it collides with a motorcyclist (or vice versa).
1/2
“I wasn’t looking”
Says me, who heard a noise ahead and looked u to see the Lime biker rider falling to the ground.
“You weren’t looking”
Says the Lime bike rider to the taxi driver who’d just turned left.
As does the taxi driver to the Lime bike rider.
Me, I’d happily blame both.
Says me, who heard a noise ahead and looked u to see the Lime biker rider falling to the ground.
“You weren’t looking”
Says the Lime bike rider to the taxi driver who’d just turned left.
As does the taxi driver to the Lime bike rider.
Me, I’d happily blame both.
July 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
“I wasn’t looking”
Says me, who heard a noise ahead and looked u to see the Lime biker rider falling to the ground.
“You weren’t looking”
Says the Lime bike rider to the taxi driver who’d just turned left.
As does the taxi driver to the Lime bike rider.
Me, I’d happily blame both.
Says me, who heard a noise ahead and looked u to see the Lime biker rider falling to the ground.
“You weren’t looking”
Says the Lime bike rider to the taxi driver who’d just turned left.
As does the taxi driver to the Lime bike rider.
Me, I’d happily blame both.
ChatGPT: Make this photo look like a Vorticist painting by CRW Nevinson.
July 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
ChatGPT: Make this photo look like a Vorticist painting by CRW Nevinson.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/... A few times on my bus home yesterday, I noticed what must be this train stopped in an odd spot. But aren't folk ingenious?
Watch: Delivery rider throws water to trapped train passengers
A delivery rider came to the aid of trapped train passengers by accurately throwing water bottles.
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June 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/... A few times on my bus home yesterday, I noticed what must be this train stopped in an odd spot. But aren't folk ingenious?
McCullin, cheerful as ever open.spotify.com/episode/1IPn...
Palmyra: Syria's past, present and future
The Story · Episode
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June 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
McCullin, cheerful as ever open.spotify.com/episode/1IPn...
Hm, Freedom Pass Passion…
May 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Hm, Freedom Pass Passion…
A glass of a good red while leafing through his Amazonia to mark the passing of Salgado.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
May 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
A glass of a good red while leafing through his Amazonia to mark the passing of Salgado.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
I was wondering why no Spitfires were in Monday's flypast, but one landed along Farringdon Road over the weekend and was hidden in the Deloittes car park before being wheeled up Ludgate Hill before dawn. ;)
May 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I was wondering why no Spitfires were in Monday's flypast, but one landed along Farringdon Road over the weekend and was hidden in the Deloittes car park before being wheeled up Ludgate Hill before dawn. ;)
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If you know, you know
April 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
If you know, you know
First time I tune into Moose TV (sat at from-Ikea desk on from-Ikea seat) and two not-from_Ikea moose are posing for me www.svtplay.se/video/8PBnMx...
April 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
First time I tune into Moose TV (sat at from-Ikea desk on from-Ikea seat) and two not-from_Ikea moose are posing for me www.svtplay.se/video/8PBnMx...
I was hooked simply by the idea of a soap opera scriptwriter who got paid by the kilo, in Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. RIP Mario Vargas Llosa.
April 14, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I was hooked simply by the idea of a soap opera scriptwriter who got paid by the kilo, in Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. RIP Mario Vargas Llosa.
A cappuccino in Bar Italia accompanied by the sound of Louis Prima, per favore!
March 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
A cappuccino in Bar Italia accompanied by the sound of Louis Prima, per favore!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yep, was a bit surprised I needed the asthma inhaler a bit last night. Canary in a coalmine?
Yep, was a bit surprised I needed the asthma inhaler a bit last night. Canary in a coalmine?
High pollution alert issued for London
Londoners are asked to switch off vehicle engines when idling and to refrain from burning garden waste.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yep, was a bit surprised I needed the asthma inhaler a bit last night. Canary in a coalmine?
Yep, was a bit surprised I needed the asthma inhaler a bit last night. Canary in a coalmine?
Of all the days to pop by to see again the great @joelmeyerowitz.bsky.social show at Tate Modern
March 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Of all the days to pop by to see again the great @joelmeyerowitz.bsky.social show at Tate Modern
£24 for the show today? I'm sure the site said £18 yesterday. Really don't like being treated like that + that £6 is almost as much as the thing I had in mind to buy!
March 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
£24 for the show today? I'm sure the site said £18 yesterday. Really don't like being treated like that + that £6 is almost as much as the thing I had in mind to buy!
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Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog).
This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)
While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…
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March 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog).
This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...