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
@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...
August 16, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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.
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. ;)
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...
At some point I saw 35 against your version
March 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
At some point I saw 35 against your version
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
Someone somewhere set up a knitting machine to produce this!
#slavaukraini
#slavaukraini
March 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Someone somewhere set up a knitting machine to produce this!
#slavaukraini
#slavaukraini
Wanker, opposite Downing Street
March 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Wanker, opposite Downing Street
March 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
If anyone's wondering what I'm on about (or if anyone's reading). 5 minutes of poking around, sucking his fingers and wiping his hand on desk. Nowt wrong with the kid, kids do things - just don't bring them to work.
February 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
If anyone's wondering what I'm on about (or if anyone's reading). 5 minutes of poking around, sucking his fingers and wiping his hand on desk. Nowt wrong with the kid, kids do things - just don't bring them to work.
Threw a recent picture at Adobe Firefly's AI video generation and said "make white horse jump out of frame"....
While I do like or am amused by the result, can you ever get more creative buzz from typing a few carefully-chosen words into an AI prompt than from typing a search term into Google?
While I do like or am amused by the result, can you ever get more creative buzz from typing a few carefully-chosen words into an AI prompt than from typing a search term into Google?
January 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Threw a recent picture at Adobe Firefly's AI video generation and said "make white horse jump out of frame"....
While I do like or am amused by the result, can you ever get more creative buzz from typing a few carefully-chosen words into an AI prompt than from typing a search term into Google?
While I do like or am amused by the result, can you ever get more creative buzz from typing a few carefully-chosen words into an AI prompt than from typing a search term into Google?
Someone in these Waterloo streets likes their old Citroens (3 more parked in the street) and Morris Minors (counted 2 more).
January 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Someone in these Waterloo streets likes their old Citroens (3 more parked in the street) and Morris Minors (counted 2 more).
Happy #RedSquirrelAppreciationDay !
January 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Happy #RedSquirrelAppreciationDay !
Please make a Lightroom preset to make my photos look like Don McCullin's....
On the bright side, I guess it means folk won't ask such silly questions in person or in forums.
On the bright side, I guess it means folk won't ask such silly questions in person or in forums.
January 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Please make a Lightroom preset to make my photos look like Don McCullin's....
On the bright side, I guess it means folk won't ask such silly questions in person or in forums.
On the bright side, I guess it means folk won't ask such silly questions in person or in forums.
Do we disagree with ChatGPT?
January 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Do we disagree with ChatGPT?
Why, you may well ask, does Napoleon crossing the Alps get to be so prominently displayed in this west London pub? It's all because it's in an elegant square designed in the 19th century by a Frenchman and, being French he was - falsely or profitably - rumoured to be related to the Emperor.
January 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Why, you may well ask, does Napoleon crossing the Alps get to be so prominently displayed in this west London pub? It's all because it's in an elegant square designed in the 19th century by a Frenchman and, being French he was - falsely or profitably - rumoured to be related to the Emperor.
My top 10 favourite ales of 2024, in no particular order
Harveys Christmas
Fullers Vintage 2024
Hopback Summer Lightning
Tripel Alliance
Harveys Tom Paine
Fullers ESB
BrewDog KingCrush Milkshake IPA
The Kernel London Brick
Gravity Well sour (can’t recall)
Tiny Rebel Chocolate Porter
and...
Harveys Christmas
Fullers Vintage 2024
Hopback Summer Lightning
Tripel Alliance
Harveys Tom Paine
Fullers ESB
BrewDog KingCrush Milkshake IPA
The Kernel London Brick
Gravity Well sour (can’t recall)
Tiny Rebel Chocolate Porter
and...
December 28, 2024 at 11:50 PM
My top 10 favourite ales of 2024, in no particular order
Harveys Christmas
Fullers Vintage 2024
Hopback Summer Lightning
Tripel Alliance
Harveys Tom Paine
Fullers ESB
BrewDog KingCrush Milkshake IPA
The Kernel London Brick
Gravity Well sour (can’t recall)
Tiny Rebel Chocolate Porter
and...
Harveys Christmas
Fullers Vintage 2024
Hopback Summer Lightning
Tripel Alliance
Harveys Tom Paine
Fullers ESB
BrewDog KingCrush Milkshake IPA
The Kernel London Brick
Gravity Well sour (can’t recall)
Tiny Rebel Chocolate Porter
and...
It's the leading and kerning, isn't it?
December 11, 2024 at 11:18 PM
It's the leading and kerning, isn't it?
More equal than others?
December 9, 2024 at 1:57 PM
More equal than others?