Stuck In Customs

Here we go again!

I think I’ve now used every model of Pixel and love them, so it was interesting to stumble across this podcast from The Verge where they interview Marc Levoy, former Google engineer. He led the team that developed computational photography technologies for the Pixel and I get a little mention just after the 24minute mark. A shortened text version is available here, the whole interview is super interesting though.

… it’s even better than that rather amazing cover photo. 😉 It’s a photo I took from my favorite yoga & meditation retreat called Aro Ha @Aroharetreats. The book, Plant to Plate, contains a bunch of pictures of high-functioning hippies pulling plants out of the ground and then immediately sitting down and putting them right on a plate before eating them. They don’t even use utensils. No need. The plates are made from hemp by a group of free-range bonobos.

The time has finally come to move on from my trusty Sony a7R3. It’s been an awesome body and while I’ve flirted with some others over the past few years none of them felt like a useful upgrade, so I always ended up back on the Mark 3. Amongst other things it’s been with me from New York to San Francisco and loads in-between in the US, all over Asia, through Africa including being AWOL in Madagascar for a few days, went from the Portuguese coast to Russia via 9 other cities and more countries. It even survived Burning Man more than once. My companion on a bunch of hikes, including the Camino de Santiago and all-around New Zealand it’s been a phenomenal device.

Its replacement? The a7CR. I’ve been playing with it for a couple of months now and knowing that the Mk.3 with its forever lost eye cup and extremely well worn body was reaching the end during my Scottish adventure last summer, I was looking for something more compact for the next few years which are shaping up to involve a lot of time on the road. This is a great balance of great specs and compact size. The question is… stick with my 24-105 G or go for something a little more compact (and a bit less worn!)?

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I met with my old friend Stephan Bollinger recently for a chat all things Trey. Want to know what I’ve been up to, and some future plans? Then click the vid below… it was a fun convo!

One more AI creation for now!

Here’s another AI generated image, maybe a little less intense than yesterdays! (See more over on my 2nd Insta account.)