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Green_Knight
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Freelance editor/copyeditor, SFF reader/writer, classical dressage nerd, landscape historian, Swift developer.
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'Nah dran' #FotoVorschlag

Ganz nah dran am Boden, der Nebel heute.

Wenn man mitten in der Stadt wohnt, nimmt man halt, was man kriegt. Jedes bisschen Natur zählt.
Urban scene at sunrise: an old oak attempting to hide a high rise building (low by local standards). The row of houses in the middle ground are just ordinary family homes. Behind the building a crane suggests there’s more to come. The foreground is short green grass. Above it floats a thin layer of cotton wool.
December 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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'Texturen' #FotoVorschlag

Wahrscheinlich kein Öl, nicht bunt genug.

Schlieren im Kanalwasser.
A whitish film, in places resembling foam, in places turbulent, on otherwise dead calm water. This is the Regents Canal, and nearby was a working barge (lock replacement), so I would suspect spillage of some sort.
November 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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''*' (Joker, Freispiel)' #FotoVorschlag

Neulich, am Stausee, am frühen Nachmittag #ohneFilter
Some grasses/rushes in the foreground, a lake with two one-man sailboats in the middle, a moderate high-rise of maybe seven storeys and other buildings in the background. This is the Welsh Harp reservoir which feeds the Grand Union canal. The Welsh Harp is on a flat piece of ground. It’s next to the North Circular, which is a flat road. You’d never know how hilly this part of London is by looking at it. This picture was taken at half past two in the afternoon, in November, and there’s a decidedly sunsetty feel about it with the sky yellowing. Winter is coming!
November 12, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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'Dinge die mit "D" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag

Dinghy. Auch Dingi, aber kein Schlauchboot.

Ein kleines Vergnügungsboot im Regents Canal umgeben von Narrowboats (Weite von vielen Kanälen) und einer ‘Dutch Barge’ (Doppelbreite). Zur Linken wird doppelt geparkt.

Genug Ds?
A white dinghy, somewhat dingy and with a worrying amount of water in the centre of the foreground. Two narrowboats on the left, the nose of a Dutch barge on the right, a row of well-kept narrowboats on the far side of the canal with an apartment block in the background. Not pictured: the Canada Geese too lazy to fly south (it’s November, I don’t think they will) and the person who went for a swim in the canal basin round the corner. Apparently the water quality is quite good these days.
November 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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'Gespiegelt' #FotoVorschlag

Auch trübe Tage sind gutes Foto-Wetter. Der große Teich in Kew und jede Menge Bäume im Herbstkleid.
A few green spikes and a lot of fallen leaves in the foreground, a reddish tree on the left, and a scene of autumn trees, reflected in the pond, taking up the rest of the picture. No identifiable birds, though there were plenty still around. (Mid-October)
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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'Bäume' #FotoVorschlag

Kirschen und Kirsch-chen.

Ideale Bedingungen für Wildkirschen – hier wird nicht gemäht, und Rehe gibt’s auch keine.

Friedhof/Park mitten in der Stadt; leider mit viel Müll. Willesden in London – erstmals ein Pilgerziel – heute ziemlich vergessen.
A row of native wild cherries that have already lost their leaves in the background and young cherries in the foreground, still bearing leaves, making a first stab at autumn colours but mostly stuck on green and yellow. Most of the ground is bare – no competition – but the cherries are thriving. It’s a cherry shrubbery.
October 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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'Um die Ecke' #FotoVorschlag

Eine Ecke von Georges Seurat, ‘Chahut’ = Can-Can). Ganz groß. Um die Ecke geht’s zur Ausstellung Radical Harmony: Neo-Impressionists in der National Gallery in London.
In the bottom left corner a guy with an impressive moustache looks up. He looked either dreamy or drunk. Not pictured: a line of can–can dancers, male and female, throwing their legs up in the air.
October 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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'Schräg (Dutch Angle)' #FotoVorschlag

Hic!

Tempel in Kew Gardens mit mediterranem Beet davor. Hier wird experimentiert: was wächst? Was nicht? Was kann das neue Klima-Normal vertragen?
A very skewed picture of one of the follies in Kew, a pseudo-Greek temple in light brown stone. A large yellow shrub dominates the foreground; most of the fore- and middle ground is gravel, with scattered plants in a faded light green dotted about. Some of the trees in the background are decidedly autumnal, though reds and oranges are entirely missing.
October 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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'Rote Blumen oder Blätter' #FotoVorschlag

Dafür muß ich nicht mal überlegen. Deswegen war ich gestern in Kew, Herbstblätter, trotz des trüben Wetters.

Mußte unbedingt die Macro Funktion ausprobieren.

Zuckerahorn mal anders.
Sugar maple so close up you can only guess it’s a leaf. Red and green patches flowing into each other. The strong central vein, running diagonally gives it away. A few holes hint at the sky; a couple of black splotches betray the Acer-ness of the leaf.
October 17, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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'Perspektivwechsel' #FotoVorschlag

Brückengeländer einmal anders: Brücke über den See, Kew Gardens.

Aka ‘Sackler Crossing’. davisla.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/k...

Normalerweise bin ich nicht unbedingt ein Freund von moderner Architektur, aber der geschwungene Lauf hat sich gut angepaßt.
Railing – well, the rectangular bronze posts that make up the boundaries – of the Sackler Crossing across the big lake in Kew. You can see a bit of water to the left, the shiny bronze railing, polished by many hands, and the even planks of the bridge itself. Can’t use this to support yourself, but you can run a stick along it and make a lot of noise. Please don’t.
October 17, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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'Metall' #FotoVorschlag

Öffentliche Kunst (mal nicht am Bau)

Metalscheibe in London, etwas versteckt und ein klein wenig rostig. Keine Plakette = keine Ahnung
Pokémon to the rescue: Das ist ein Gym namens ‘sun disk’ und so have ich mehr Info gefunden:

wembleymatters.blogspot.com/2020/12/publ...
The ‘sun disk’ sculpture in London, a large metal disk, apparently with local scenes (here photographed from the back so you can see how it’s propped up at 45 degrees) on a slightly crumbling pedestal.
October 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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'Dinge die mit "H" beginnen ...' #FotoVorschlag

Hinterhof.

Sozialer Wohnungsbau (längst privatisiert) neben der Britisch Library, als Beweis das auch arme Leute vernünftig leben können.

Könnten sie, wenn die Reichen nicht so gierig wären.
The back of oirmer social housing near the British Library. A bright and airy backyard of a light-coloured 6-storey half-round housing block, including trees, beds, and a bike storage shed. As dense urban housing goes, not bad.
October 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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'Zahlen: Fünf' #FotoVorschlag

Fünf Säulen stützen… hier eine Brücke über den Regents Canal, London, jede mit ihrem eigenen Graffiti versehen.
The towpath cuts through the bottom left corner, followed by the green water of the Regent’s Canal, and the wooded far shore. From left to right across two arches of a road bridge cut across, propped up by handsome Greek-inspired columns (adorned with graffiti in the same light brown as the bridge itself) and topped by a lattice balustrade. Steel and stone, both functional and elegant. They don’t make em like that anymore.
September 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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'Sandige Angelegenheit' #FotoVorschlag

Meer oder Berge? Beides!

Und Kultur gibt’s, wenn nicht gratis, dazu.

Endloser Strand bei Portmeirion, North Wales. Jede Menge Warnungen, die Flutzeiten zu beachten, inklusive.
Beware the tide. Some scrubs, suitably Mediterranean looking in the foreground, a lot of sand, a deeper river channel cutting through the picture from left to right, with hills and distant mountains in the background.
September 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Na ja….

Ein ‘Bauerngarten’ mitten in der Stadt. Dieser Park hat nicht nur Spielplatz, Fußball- und Cricket Feldern, sondern auch eine kleine Gartenecke, aufgeteilt in Blumen und Eßbares.
Cottage garden corner of Acton Playing Fields, London. A riot of asteroids (light purple), valerian (reddish) and lamb’s ear (purple flower spikes long gone, silvery leaves in foreground). The lamb’s ear is winning.
September 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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'Blaue Stunde' #FotoVorschlag

Ziemlich enttäuschend. Das WAR die Blaue Stunde, hab ich mit eigenen Augen gesehen, aber mein Handy hatte andere Ideen.

Pier und Promenade in Llandudno.

More experimentation needed.
A blue hour snapshot that looks pretty dark and nightly. Llandudno pier running right to left (not that you can tell, it’s dark), a Ferris wheel all lit up in pink and blue on the right; the sheer endless promenade of Llandudno curving along the horizon, houses lit up in yellows and oranges and some not at all. Sky much darker in the picture than it was to the naked eye.
September 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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'Antikes' #FotoVorschlag

Weiß nicht, ob das Regal als Antiquität zählt, eine halbe Stunde später war’s weg.

Der Briefkasten hingegen ist antik; ich meine George V; muß ich genauer hinschauen. (Garantiert nicht Elizabeth).
A two-legged square shelf with three tiers leans drunkenly against a red pillar post box which also looks like it has seen better times. Well, it saw Elizabeth come and go. In the background are a battered fence and a battered telephone exchange. More shabby than chic.
September 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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I have an improved updated result from Google just now.
First: just asking an innocent question. Second: prefacing the same question with ‘what is the current year’
AI has no concept of time. This is consistent with being a fancy autocomplete, but it’s bad news for anyone expecting it to make sense
Me asking, on September 7, 2025, ‘was 2010 was 15 years ago’, in response to AI insisting the year is 2025 but 2010 was 14 years ago. The new, updated answer: No, 2010 was 14 years ago, not 15, because the current year is 2024. If you ask about the current year first, you get an answer that ends in ‘Therefore, 2010 was indeed 25 years ago from the perspective of 2025’ which suggests that LLMs have, indeed, no concept of time.
September 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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'Magische Natur in Schwarz-Weiß' #FotoVorschlag

Ihr wollt Drama? Hah!

Und damit habe ich herausgefunden, das die iPhone Photos App zwar Filter hat, diese aber mit them Foto sichert, so das das Original weg ist.

Ein hatt’ ich noch, musste aber etwas auf dem Handy suchen. Ta-dah!
A rainbow in Shropshire, not that you could tell. Flat stubble field in the foreground, a house and its garden wall on the horizon, a hedge leading straight up, another cutting through the image left to right behind the house. Above, four fifth of a rainbow. Wide angle was not wide enough. To make up for that, a second rainbow, somewhat fainter, above.
September 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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'Moderne Zeiten' #FotoVorschlag

Heute hatte ich freie Auswahl.
Die Backsteinhäuser im Hintergrund waren irgendwann modern, dreistöckig, quadratisch, na ja. Das Hochhaus dahinter eine neuere Zeit.
Und dann das Stahlgerüst, die Ramme, und das Versprechen, der nächste Wohnraum wird bestimmt genial.
Kilburn, London, a jumble of building phases, none of them pretty but all of them modern. The brick squares on the left back barely visible, a white high rise in the far background with scaffolding – we’re not yet finished fixing this – and the red steel frame squeezed between the busy road and older buildings with a single black ram and the artist’s (or AI’s) impression of what truly modern housing will look like. For now. The box junction in the foreground tells us that cars, not people, are important here.
September 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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'Verrückte Natur' #FotoVorschlag

Halloween Deko (die Supermärkte machens ja auch).

Flechte, wahrscheinlich Peltigera.

Gefunden in Cadnant Hidden Gardens, wo es jede Menge Schatten und Regen gibt.
A black-and orange lichen, presumably peltigera, exact species unknown. This is an eerie sight, back leaflike structures with orange fruiting bodies. It grows on a very mossy rock, with ferns nearby.
August 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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'Schattenspiel' #FotoVorschlag

Kleine Wolke, große Wirkung.

Great Orme, North Wales.
Such a tiny, insignificant cloud, such a huge shadow. A monstrous shadow on the sea next to the Great Orme. Bleak heather foreground, molten metal going up to the horizon, deep blue sky with a few ragged clouds.
August 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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‘Lieblingsoutfit’ #FotoVorschlag

Nicht meines. Ich tauche nicht, surfe nicht, und weiß nicht einmal, wofür man die Dinger sonst brauchen könnte, aber ich garantiere, das ist das Lieblingsoutfit von irgendwem.

Leute waren nicht in Sicht.
Two wet suits drying on a picnic table. I’m confident they’re someone’s favourite outfits. In the background a beach, more beach, a trickle of water, more beach, and rocks. Eventually there is water, but it’s a long way out.
August 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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‘Dellen undid Beulen’ #FotoVorschlag

… am Strand.
Ripples and dents (no bumps, unless you count the rocks) in a closeup of a tidal beach. It’s deeply pitted and uneven.
August 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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‘Abstand’ #FotoVorschlag

Abstand halten, bitte.

Hier grasen von Zeit zu Zeit Ponies, denen man weder auf Englisch noch auf Walisisch nahekommen sollte.

Holy Mountain, Anglesey.
Keep your distance please. A bilingual notice for walkers/dog walkers nailed to a fence; Holy Mountain nr Holyhead, Anglesey. The eye glides across the pasture over the rocks and out to sea before getting lost in the distant coastline.
August 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM