Fife has a unique landscape, formed by its vulcanic past combined with the erosion of the sea. Different types of lava have different resilience, which is partially responsible for those stunning rock formations. Great shot!

That law is definitely problematic. The phrasing was even back then critizised rightfully as too broad, too open to interpretation. It generates a bad precedent, as it could just as well be used against anti fascism activists once the AFD manages to grab power anywhere.

Now where does that come from? It stemmed from one of those actionism-phases in politics where someone said ‘oh there’s so much hate on the internet, it inspires hate on the streets, what should we do?’

The backdrop was a consistent uprising in really troubling hate speech on the internet, where people with their clear names called for lynching politicians and their families. The thing is, addressing this would not have required new laws. We would have been fine with someone actually persecuting the laws we already had.

Now the “new law” ofc makes it easier to persecute those criminal cases. But that prosecution still only happens if the police actually stand up to it. Arguments like “insufficient public interest” “insufficient staffing” “that could have been anyone writing this, how should we know that an account named Max Mustermann actually belongs to said Max Mustermann” still give the police in the more right wing states in Eastern Germany easy ways out. If they don’t want to prosecute a crime, they will always find a way around it.

With all that being said, I can only concur with observations that this law is only now being discussed in international news as right-wing governments with media ties try to make a bad mood against Germany and influence the upcoming elections. Otherwise the anti-protest laws in the UK that bring climate activists behind bars for peaceful non-violent protests would top those headlines every time.

Tl/DR; yes, that law is shit and good intentions don’t help. Police still only prosecute those they want.

This is the northern hemisphere, just a picture I took in the summer and found now while cleaning up my image folders

Found this image when cleaning up my SD card. It’s a small local flooded gravel pit. The color of the water is natural and comes from the limestone gravel that the Alps rivers and glaciers left here over the millenia.

Yeah, if you like playing with compositions they are a great tool :)

I use a DJI mini 3, changed the rotors to new ones that have a bit more lift and make less noise, added a polarization filter and thereby all in all upgraded it for 30 bucks compared to out of the factory configuration.

My thoughts: I absolutely love it. You see my complaints about the weird raw file format that is hard to process properly but apart from that it’s so very nice. It is small mobile, the controls work excellent and the only regret I have is not spending the extra money to get the pro version that would have had the nice follow modes for shooting video.

Mostly I use it for making outdoor videos when hiking, biking or paddling and it is bringing me lots of joy :) Have not found a good video service yet (tried the fediverse version but didn’t perform well, don’t like YouTube), otherwise there would be about as many nice outdoor video shots from me as there are photos ^^

Thank you :)

Hmm, I read a thread on darktable about it. The devs said the problem with that kind of Pixel-based correction is that it’s running counter to all their data processing and they’d basically have to rewrite their raw processor from scratch. I totally get it that that’s a lot to ask from an open source team, so no complaints there.

Already through most of the tips in this list,

• the dji drone provides DNG files
• tried affinity and rawtherapee, both without success, same problem

The x-rite color checker is something I’ve ever heard of before though, I’ll give it a shot, thanks!

just downloaded the software and gave it a try - same issue as most others. It doesn’t ingest the pixel-wise correction matrix and therefore gives an image that is blighted and has a red-shift in the middle, while getting some vignette in the corners…

https://gigamove.rwth-aachen.de/en/download/4991c0c25442db3d7fcc81146772f42b here you are. Sorry for the delay, I caught conjunctivitis and had to limit my screen time as much as possible.

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That’s awesome, thank you! I’ll do that but it will take a day or two as the easiest way to spot the difference is when shooting an even colored scene and seeing the red tint in the middle.

I’ll get back to you with a download link once it’s done

If you find one that’s not a subscription service and is able to read DNG’s weird color correction matrix tell me, I’ll be all ears. But so far I had no luck and not for lack of investing time in the search…

Also thank you so much for the inspiration with the regional contrast on the other image :) that was the motivation to try out here

In this case snapseed. It seems to be the only software apart from Adobe PS that can correctly read the .DNG raw files from my dji mini 3.

For more ambitious projects I preprocess in snapseed, export a high quality jpeg and push that through gimp afterwards

Thanks!

Mid December on a skiing trip in the Dolomites (Marmolada Glacier region). Shot from a drone though, so not a place you can reach on foot.

Sorry, was busy with work. Yes, shot again on the drone. Was the highest I’ve ever flown, above 3000m… It’s in a Ski-resort in the Dolomites.

This is the original for comparison