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November 2023 : Wednesday
Nov 2023 : Wednesday
Another Chunk of Laucala
Daily Photo – Another Chunk of Laucala
One of the amazing bits of accommodation on Laucala Island in Fiji.
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September 2023 : Sunday
Sep 2023 : Sunday
Edinburgh of the South
Daily Photo – Edinburgh of the South
Been down in Dunedin for some eye stuff and it reminded me of this shot from the coast down there… and that this is another one of those links between Scotland and NZ. The name Dunedin comes from Dùn Èideann, the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh…
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September 2023 : Friday
Sep 2023 : Friday
Stopping in Fiji
Daily Photo – Stopping in Fiji
Next up on the trip back home, a whopping 3hrs in Fiji! Here’s a favorite from a previous trip. I expect this stopover to be a little less scenic.
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July 2023 : Friday
Jul 2023 : Friday
Oh, Bard…
Daily Photo – Oh, Bard…
I love playing around with new AI stuff. Some of it is great (Midjourney/ChatGPT) some of it is terrible and sometimes it’s really hit and miss. Regardless of the result it’s always fun to experiment. Recently Google added image uploads to Bard, their AI chat, and you can have it do things like describe the contents of the image.
Now knowing Bard had a tendency, even with normal chat, to invent nonsense facts I was curious to see how it would do with some of my images. To be fair, it started off promising, but then… well… it all got a bit “imaginative”. So, here’s one example:
“The image you sent me shows an aerial view of a city with tall buildings and a yacht in the middle. The city is located on a peninsula, and the water on the left side of the image is a bay. The buildings in the city are mostly tall skyscrapers, and there are a few smaller buildings as well. The yacht in the middle of the image is white, and it has a blue stripe on the side. There are a few people on the yacht, and they are standing on the deck.
The sky in the image is blue, and there are a few clouds. The sun is shining, and the light is reflecting off of the water in the bay. The overall impression of the image is one of a modern city with a beautiful skyline.
Here are some additional details about the image:
The image was taken during the day, in the afternoon.
The weather is clear and sunny.
The water in the bay is a light blue color.
The sky is a clear blue color.
The city is surrounded by mountains.
I hope this description is helpful.”
So the question is… is Bard “imagining” what is outside the image or is it picking up this being Hong Kong and therefore it’s describing aspects of that location, even though they are not in the frame… hmm…
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June 2023 : Sunday
Jun 2023 : Sunday
As the Season Changed
Daily Photo – As the Season Changed
This was taken on the last day of summer a few years ago. I love it when things start to get properly moody in NZ weather wise. Autumn is a great time, not only for the colors but it starts to get back into aurora time darkness wise and the sunsets tend to go a bit wilder with the extra moisture coming into the air. Here you can see things starting to get a bit more mixed weather wise!
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January 2022 : Thursday
Jan 2022 : Thursday
A Lesson in Standing Out from the Crowd
Daily Photo – A Lesson in Standing Out from the Crowd
The architect of this building in Macau really can’t be accused of holding back!
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January 2022 : Thursday
Jan 2022 : Thursday
Fiordland National Park from Above
Daily Photo – Fiordland National Park from Above
I’ve driven up and down this road quite a few times over the years and always found it to be stunning. From the ground the options are fantastic but I got a whole new appreciation for the area when I started chucking the quadcopter up to explore further.
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September 2021 : Tuesday
Sep 2021 : Tuesday
Nature and the Wall
Daily Photo – Nature and the Wall
This is most of what the Great Wall of China looks like as nature reclaims itself. I took this with a drone while we slept in one of the old guard towers.
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August 2021 : Thursday
Aug 2021 : Thursday
Mini-Island in Wanaka
Daily Photo – Mini-Island in Wanaka
I flew my drone out as far as I could to get this image. I think you can go camping out here at night… that sounds incredibly fun and romantic. I’d love to give it a try. That reminds me I need to get all new camping gear because the stuff I have kinda sucks.
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August 2021 : Saturday
Aug 2021 : Saturday
Tane in the Pool
Daily Photo – Tane in the Pool
While we were in Langkawi, each of us had our own pool for our rooms. How cool is that? We would always have arguments… like he said, why don’t you come to my pool. And I was like no way man. I’m not getting in your filthy pool. Get your skinny ass over to my pool and get it all dirty with your dirty dirty body and then Tane was like, okay.
