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Maks Ksenjak

@caliwinter.bsky.social

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Just a cat with a camera and ❤️ for photography Lviv 🇺🇦 to 🇺🇸 Pasadena. Library troubleshooter. Father, husband, cat herder. Fantasy/sci-fi/gamer. https://www.flickr.com/caliwinter

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Maks Ksenjak @caliwinter.bsky.social · Jan 9

Altadena 💔

Aftermath of Eaton Canyon fire. Altadena, CA. January 8, 2025

Photos taken by me

Aftermath of Eaton Canyon fire. Altadena, CA. January 8, 2025

Aftermath of Eaton Canyon fire. Altadena, CA. January 8, 2025

Aftermath of Eaton Canyon fire. Altadena, CA. January 8, 2025

Aftermath of Eaton Canyon fire. Altadena, CA. January 8, 2025

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Martini Shot 🎬🍸 @martini-shot.bsky.social · 1d

Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day today. I grew up in northern NM near several beautiful pueblos. Some photos I took in 2011 at Taos Pueblo. #photography #WestCoastKin

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Cyberpunk Librarian @cyberpunklibrarian.bsky.social · 8d

Baker & Taylor appears to be shutting down. A post on the r/libraries subreddit from an employee of B&T breaks the news and there appear to be other employees in the comments confirming the situation.

From the Libraries community on Reddit

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Maks Ksenjak @caliwinter.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah, I have bulk of it on external drives (trying to limit what I have on my laptop to projects I am working on). Also avoiding adding exported jpegs to the catalog.

Need to probably start trimming them down too. I am bit of a shutter click happy guy

Maks Ksenjak @caliwinter.bsky.social · 11d

How big is yours? I had accumulated over 60000 raw files and tiff film scans in over 10 years 🤦🏻‍♂️

Maks Ksenjak @caliwinter.bsky.social · 12d

They are much faster (C1 feels much faster too). Haven’t encountered any errors yet either.

Maks Ksenjak @caliwinter.bsky.social · 12d

So I did start working on smaller catalogs - making annual ones for miscellaneous work, started off with oldest (reasoned I did process them already, and if I feel inclined to mess with old raw files, it would be to perhaps try new processing styles), and ended up liking small catalogs a lot!

Maks Ksenjak @caliwinter.bsky.social · 14d

True. Planned to toy with virtualization for CaptureOne there as well. Bring best of both worlds together.

Maks Ksenjak @caliwinter.bsky.social · 14d

Yeah, I love that for C1: I dropped some older raws from Fuji X100T into it and it felt like it C1 really made resulting jpegs really shined as opposed to Lr. There is some magic in how it “cooks” the images.

That new retouching module is amazing as well. Made my job so much easier.

Maks Ksenjak @caliwinter.bsky.social · 14d

Perhaps, I can feed some less crucial/silly projects into it, instead of CaptureOne, and see what develops

Maks Ksenjak @caliwinter.bsky.social · 14d

… for this situation. Feel like smaller catalogs would make better sense.

Been playing w Linux again a lot recently as well, and really, really like CachyOS. Darktable on that side of things seems to be a phenomenally powerful piece of software, and I was curious to try it out too.

Maks Ksenjak @caliwinter.bsky.social · 14d

Appreciate it. To be honest - I am toying with using this as an opportunity to reevaluate my workflow and how I use the app/catalog system.

My whole “single catalog” workflow came from years of using Lightroom in similar configuration, so I carried same system as I migrated & kinda set myself up …

Maks Ksenjak @caliwinter.bsky.social · 14d

Yeah. Went through different options with them, making sure that permissions and access are okay (they are), that catalog is not stored on external drive (it is not)

Latest suggestion was that I create a new catalog, then import my old one into the new one in order to force re-indexing and rebuild.

Maks Ksenjak @caliwinter.bsky.social · 14d

I suspect that overall, the size of the catalog and me moving operating systems (Mac to Windows) contributed to the problem.

I think I should perhaps sticking to creating smaller ones (catalog per project, or a model I work with constantly, for miscellaneous shots - per year), keep them manageable

Maks Ksenjak @caliwinter.bsky.social · 14d

Did have backups, restored them - ran into another issue: old backups would point to locations of photos that are no longer correct, so I would correct them and locate the files, however that change would only stick until I close the app. Start it again, and I am back w the web of old missing paths

Maks Ksenjak @caliwinter.bsky.social · 14d

Toying w idea of perhaps taking this opportunity to take a deeper dive into Darktable (and also explore various other open source options)? Been booting into Windows just for CaptureOne pretty much 🤔

Maks Ksenjak @caliwinter.bsky.social · 14d

Dealing with corrupted CaptureOne catalog is not the business.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 16d

Ukrainian Fashion Week returned to Kyiv, showcasing an inclusive and resilient new fashion scene.

🧵 1/6 ⬇️

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Damien Walter @damiengwalter.com · Sep 12

The determination of rich famous Americans to create a society of bitter resentful people armed with weapons that can kill from long distance is

stunningly dumb

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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · Sep 11

3yrs ago, Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated Izyum and found mass graves of 447 people. Most of the murdered were civilians — 215 women, 194 men and 5 children. 22 were servicemen, 11 bodies couldn't be identified.

Many bodies had signs of violent death.

The occupation lasted less than half a year.

Maks Ksenjak @caliwinter.bsky.social · Sep 7

Indeed - my very first Leica (I mean, I've used a Leica Lux app for my phone, but that's a different story). Traded w a buddy of mine for some photo books.

Maks Ksenjak @caliwinter.bsky.social · Sep 7

Needs some tune up, cla and (looks like) a new light seal.

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Видавництво «Астролябія» @astrolabebooks.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Художник Grant Snider

Maks Ksenjak @caliwinter.bsky.social · Sep 7

Would you look at this beauty?
🐈‍⬛ 🐈 experts looked it over and concluded that it is not edible tho

Maks Ksenjak @caliwinter.bsky.social · Sep 7

You know, I frankly don't mind free transit access, and for that matter free access to resources/places/etc available to public. We all deserve better, but that said - I think it will require a baseline of stable and safe society to function successfully. Otherwise, its just patients running asylum.

Maks Ksenjak @caliwinter.bsky.social · Sep 7

Had seen enough die in the streets while actively refusing help, just because that's how illness rewired their minds.