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James
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Interest include: #Quest #Oculus #VR #VirtualReality #SideQuest #GameDev #IndieGame #Unity #Unity3D #DronePhotography #Photography #Apple2 #Lego #StableDiffusion #AI #Brazil #Brasil #Minnesota #SanFrancisco #SaoPaulo #StPaul #StreetPhotography #Geology
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My son recently launched a #WeatherBalloon with a camera and some instruments. This #photo is from about 30km up just before the #balloon burst. It's really cool that you can begin to see the curvature of the #Earth from this height and see the darkness of #space.

#photography #weather #Minnesota
View of the earth from very high up.
March 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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#Photo of a #sunset in #StPaul #Minnesota vs. sunset in #SaoPaulo #Brazil, a few days apart.

#photography #DronePhotography #Brasil
Sunset with a lake in the foreground Sunset with a city in the foreground
March 28, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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#HDR #DronePhotography of #lake #ice breaking up in #StPaul #Minnesota I took today. #Spring is coming. The #weather was super warm.

#photo #photography #winter
View of a lake from above with cracks forming in the ice.
March 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Big #hail #storm today in #SaoPaulo #Brazil

#brasil #photo #landscape #sky
A icy hail stone in the palm of a hand Ominous storm clouds above with hills in the distance
February 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Another #beach #photo this time near #ubatuba #Brazil today, there was a big storm in #SaoPaulo today.

#brasil #photography #sunset
Sunset on the beach
January 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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#Photo from today that I took of #colorful #umbrellas on Praia Canto do Forte a #beach near #SaoPaulo and #Santos #Brasil

#DronePhotography
#photography
Many beach umbrellas from above
January 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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#Baking King Gustaf's pepparkakar #cookies in #brasil with my wife, could not find dark karo syrup, and had to substitute with yellow karo syrup and some dark sugar cane extract. Color is good but it's missing the snap.

#cooking #brazil
Cookies on a stove
December 23, 2024 at 11:27 PM
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You can still get the #McDonalds fried #ApplePie in #Brasil, I recall a lot of people miss them back in the United States.

#fastfood #food #retro #Brazil
McDonald's bag and apple pie in a shopping mall McDonald's bag and apple pie in a shopping mall McDonald's bag and apple pie in a shopping mall
December 14, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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Went for a walk in #Jaragua #park this morning in #SoaPaulo #Brasil, saw a #monkey and some #butterflies

#hdrphotograpghy #bugs #photography #brazil #nature
Dirt walking path in a tropical forest Monkey on a green tree Butterfly on the ground
December 12, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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I shot this #portrait in #Cancun of a shaman solving my son's #Rubik's cube on the #pirate ship #JollyRoger during the dinner portion of the show. He was able to solve it but not the larger cube my son had brought with him

www.pirateshowcancun.com/pirate-ship-...

#photography #pirates #rubikscube
Pirate shaman solving a Rubik's cube
December 4, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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Crescent Bay #Beach in #California photographed from the park above.

#photography
photo of a beach from the cliffs above
December 2, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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#Photo I took from #Sugarloaf (Pão de Açúcar) towards #Botafogo and #Flamingo in #RiodeJaneiro more than 25 years ago, just before the digital #photography age. Shot on a pocket camera in #panorama mode. It has faded a bit, but I still like it.

#brasil #brazil #Rio #sunset #cablecar
sunset over the city of Rio with a cable car in the forground
November 30, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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Cool #rock #store in #SaoPaulo #Brazil. Many beautiful #rocks you find for sale around the world come from here.

LP MINERAIS do BRASIL

www.lpminerais.com.br
goo.gl/maps/9gf4y1D...

#photography #crystals #geology #brasil
Giant pyrite (fools gold) rock specimen Large clear smelt red quartz sphere Giant amethyst crystal cluster rock in a store Many amethyst crystal cluster rocks in a store
November 29, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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Inside my #Mom's cozy #greenhouse with lot's of #plants

#photography
Greenhouse filled with green plants with little snow outside
November 28, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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A pretty #flower from my wife's collection of #gesneriad plants

#photography #plant
Closeup of a red and white polka dot flower
November 28, 2024 at 1:57 AM
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#Photo of my #mom walking in a #park near her home, she will be 93 years old in a few days.

#photography #nature #fall #minnesota #stpaul
Small pond with a hint of ice forming on the surface, sun shining through the bare fall trees, wispy white clouds above in a bright blue sky
November 26, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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Something warm and sunny to contrast the coming cold weather, a #photo of my wife and I on the #beach in #Natal, #Brazil

#photography #brasil #dronephotography
drone photo of a beach with two people standing near the waves
November 24, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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#Photo I took in November 2022 of the Central Avenue bridge under #construction just north of the Stone Arch #Bridge in #Minneapolis on the #Mississippi #River

#photography #minnesota
Bridge under construction over a river
November 23, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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Some boats docked in the city of Natal Brasil.

#photography #brasil #brazil #natal #boat #boats
Colorful boats docked near a small bridge on a lush river in Brasil
November 22, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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Created an #AI image of #Frankenstein, then used AI to create a depth map and then I put it on my #3D display. Looks really cool.

lookingglassfactory.com
github.com/thygate/stab...
github.com/AUTOMATIC111...

Original image
photos.app.goo.gl/FEUYbAwD1c4a...

#stablediffusion #aiart #lookingglass
November 21, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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Drone photo from a visit to the Stoney Brook Farms World's Largest Corn Maze. It was really quite large.

www.stoneybrookfarms.com

#photography #drone #minnesota #corn #maze #stoneybrookfarms
Arial photo of a large corn maze
November 20, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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My old digital camera projects from 1999. They were pretty cool at the time and garnered quite a bit of interest. Some people didn't even believe it was real. How much technology has progressed in just a short time.

plaidpants.github.io/mamed/

#retrogaming #photography #doom #mame #emulation
Kodak DC265 camera running the classic arcade game Doom
November 18, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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#photography #drone #minnesota
Arial photo of a lake beginning to freeze, sections of ice and open water are different dark colors and white lines in a mosaic on the surface of the lake, ice is mirror-like in places and reflects the clouds and blue sky above.
November 15, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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I published a space invaders VR game a couple years ago. Check it out if you are interested.

www.meta.com/experiences/...

sidequestvr.com/app/6341/whe...

Source code available

github.com/plaidpants/W...

#quest #VR #virtualreality #sidequest #invaders #spaceinvaders #gamedev #indiegame #unity
November 14, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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I'm going to begin reposting stuff here from my mastodon account.

#photography #drone #minnesota

sfba.social/@LostGuppy/1...
above a frozen lake looking towards a small walking bridge with the sun in the background shining through some trees
November 13, 2024 at 3:52 PM