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Vis Major
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Hobbyist photographer and programmer.
I also like glitch art.
When I'm not outside I'm working on a glitch inspired image filters web app for desktop: https://vismga.com/VisGlitch/
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Fun fact when I initially started working on this project my first concept was a music visualizer. Now 10+ years later I'm finally working on the audio reactivity part.

Audio here from the Risk of Rain 2 soundtrack by Chris Christodoulou.

Some flashing lights warning.

#glitchart
July 4, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Work was exhausting this week and I didn't want to go outside today so I did more work on my app instead.
Tweaking shaders, adding more options.
#glitchart
A version of the quoted photo run through a glitch filter. The mountain is still recognizable from the shape of it, but it's made up of streaky horizontal lines of varying colors now.
June 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Split "cubic" controls into x and y axis so they can be controlled separately.
The flowers have been sliced vertically and groups of pixels are moved left and right.
June 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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I added a .webp compression option to the data corruption mode.
#glitchart
The top bit of flowers is still recognizable, but everthing else is a mess of rectangles in various colors.
June 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Been a while since I've updated this.
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#glitchart
Changelog in thread v
I've added an edge detect mode.
Edge detect shader makes neon flowers and surroundings.
June 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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I guess I'm collecting photos of other birds attacking bald eagles now. Here's an osprey I saw yesterday.
#photography
#birds
An osprey dives at a bald eagle perched at the top of a fir tree. The osprey has its talons reaching out in front, and the eagle has its wings spread and beak open.
June 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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I can barely tell anything beyond the shape and color here. Would you say it looked more like an insect eating beak than a seed eater? Any size estimate?
a blown up, very low fidelity image of the section of the above image with the bird in it.
June 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Sometimes something happens and you just have to hope your camera settings are good enough where they're already at. I had so little time to react to this, and the light and background changed as they flew across the lake.

Crazy way to see a peregrine falcon for the first time.
#photography
#birds
Peregrine falcon dive bombing a bald eagle. The bald eagle is carrying a bundle of sticks and looking up at the falcon with its beak open.
June 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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A touch of color at sunrise on a morning I wasn't already at work by this time of day.
#photography
#landscape
A lake view just before sunrise. The foreground is dark with grasses, irises, and a lake with lots of water plants in the foreground, a tree lined skyline, and wispy clouds with a touch of red from the sunrise.
June 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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There's some very low tides in the Salish Sea this week. Here's a gull doing some fishing in a tide pool. This move they do really amuses me.

#birds #pnw
A profile shot of a gull leaping out of the water. Wings spread, feet pushing off, creating a splash below it. The same gull at the peak of its leap. Its wings are spread, head and body are tilted down, and its feet are fully out of the water. The gull with its head in the water. Wings still spread, whole body tilted nearly vertically, feet tucked, and wings still spread.
May 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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I keep thinking about spooky mode so here's a bald eagle.
#birds
Bald eagle sitting in a douglas fir tree with its head cocked, beak open, and nictitating membrane closed.
May 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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One of my favorite birds is back flocking in the area. I love cedar waxwings. #birds #photography
A cedar waxwing sitting on a forked dead branch with greenery in the foreground and background.
May 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Not usually one to spend a lot of time taking pictures of flowers, but I sure saw a lot of flowers yesterday.
I think they're rhododendrons? Not a plant expert by any stretch.

#photography #flowers
A bunch of light pink flowers surrounded by leaves with more out of focus flowers and other leaves in the foreground and background.
May 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Just before the chase began. This angle shows just how big of a prize that fish was.
Learning more about editing.
#photography #wildlifephotography #birds
Female common merganser swims while holding a fish the size of her head in her beak.
May 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Messing around with recording video a bit. Here's a marsh wren singing on a branch. (featuring a background of many other birds).
I love the range of sounds they make.
#birds
May 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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A female common merganser protects her catch.
It's amazing how fast they can swim!
#photography
#birds
A female common merganser with a fish in her mouth swims rapidly away from a male chasing her. Both are kicking up splashes of water behind them.
April 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Glitch bloom dawn.
Got my development stuff transferred to a computer with a fully working keyboard so maybe I'll get back to updating my image manipulation program again.
#glitchart
A photo of flowers on a tree with color channels shifted in different directions. Quite an abstract piece.
April 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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The eagle departs.
#photography
#birds
Bald eagle in flight against a backdrop of Douglas fir tree.
April 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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The crow even made contact several times!
#birds
The crow has swooped down and made contact with the bald eagle's head.
April 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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I watched this crow pester the bald eagle for nearly half an hour. Eventually it was successful in driving the eagle away. Or possibly the eagle decided it had somewhere else to be.
#photography
#birds
A bald eagle lower right, perched in a Douglas fir tree, pestered by a crow flying less than a wingspan above and to the left.
April 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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A quiet morning on the lake.
#photography
#landscape
A partly cloudy morning on a lake with wisps of mist on the surface of the lake, and a dark coniferous treeline on the opposite shore.
April 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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I finally got some clear, close, and in focus shots of marsh wrens this week after trying for a couple of weeks.

Their song is one of the first I've learned to be able to identify because of its uniqueness.

I feel like I need birdsong flashcards.

#photography
#birds
A marsh wren (a small bird with a brown top of head and back and light lower body) with its mouth wide open and singing, perched on a large brown stem of some type of grass that runs at a diagonal from lower right to top left of the image. Background grasses are mostly green. A marsh wren (a small bird with a brown top of head and back and light lower body) with its mouth wide open and singing, perched on a stem of some type of grass that runs at a diagonal from lower right and ends in drooping leaves just above the bird. Background and foreground grasses are mostly green.
April 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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I was pleasantly surprised to see how the out of focus areas of this image of a kingfisher turned out. I'm almost more interested in the background than the subject here.
#photography
A profile shot of a belted kingfisher sitting on the tip of a large dead branch, its beak slightly open. The background has interesting out of focus patterns created by more bare branches in the light.
April 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Caught this marsh wren collecting cattail fluff yesterday morning.

The quest for a good clear picture of one of these little birds continues, but I really like this shot.

#birds
#photography
A small bird flies away from a fluffy cattail with a bundle of fluff in it's beak. Bits of cattail fluff are float in the air around the cattail.
April 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Waterbirds make me wish for a newer camera with a flippy screen. I laid down on the shore of the pond so I could see these ring necked ducks through my viewfinder at their eye level.
Luckily there was a dry patch.

#birds
#photography
A male and female ring necked duck swim in a pond in front of a tangle of brown reeds.
April 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM