These shots have been sitting on my SD card for nearly a decade. While the shots were sharp and the stacks were good, the robberfly had landed on a red pole that reflected red all over the insect. This threw a red color cast over the entire frame as well.
I finally stacked them this morning, and actually corrected the color quite nicely, but decided to convert to black and white as well... and I love the way these turned out. My B&W conversion here is a unique method, I created a layer and converted the background and foreground as default to keep the surfaces clean from noise, but then I went back and converted the fly itself through a blue filter to increase contrast, darkness, and sharpness. I do this with some of my canyon landscape shots as well, as the blue filter brings out the layers and sharpness while adding some depth to the shot - but adds too much noise to skies, or even macro OOF areas.
the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again
Tumbleweed needs everyone to know that I am his most cruel and heartless mother for decreasing the amount of food he gets due to him gaining a third again his body weight over the last year no that is not all fur Tumbleweed you are shaped like a pregnant sheep!
He has spent much of the day stomping from room to room while yelling his immense displeasure.
"Don't just throw ripped jeans away, you can repair them using these 10 cute Visible Mending techniques!!" unfortunately my friend the first point of failure for every single pair of jeans i have owned in my life has been the Crotch and Ass. Knees: fine, cuffs: fine; but 3 years in, and all that stands between the world and my astronaut-patterned taint is 0.5µm of denim worn so thin that every squat threatens to tear it to shreds like wet toilet paper. If the Tiktok craft community could figure out a way to resurrect jeans afflicted in such a way that doesn't involve adding a whole ass buttpatch like some sort of inverse assless chaps situation then that'd be great
deeply unlikeable and unpleasant female characters are actually so important for the ecosystem and also as a good litmus test over if a person is Weird about women or not