A few more pawn portraits #DragonsDogma2 #DD2 (PC) #virtualphotography #ThePhotomode #VPPortraits

Sony: I have a killer idea $$ Me: OK what is it? Sony: 1. Don't ship games to PC 2. Don't ship physical games 3. Close a few studios/games 4. "Monetize" (wink wink) existing users Me: so less customers and less games but bigger prices ? Sony: Yes!! Why make games if all we need is money??

Blackberry flower from garden plot (unedited)

Thank you for improving your photomode DD2. #dragonsdogma2 #virtualphotography

4th of June 2026 Gentle cosmos and ticklish bean plant from my balcony. The two cedar tips evoked Pandarus & Bitias from the Aeneid. #photography | #dslr | #flowers (light edits in Shotwell Viewer)

Issue 38 is out now 📸 ➡️ thephotomode.com Packed with #VirtualPhotography content from the community! Q&A with @warhorsestudios.bsky.social VP&ME with @theonlyjess.bsky.social VP Guide by @nimmu.bsky.social Highlights from #ACFirstCivVP with @falconswift87.bsky.social (cover by alphasuni)

Fierce, like dragons #DragonsDogma2 #DD2 #virtualphotography #thephotomode (PC)

A study of Gervaise the Pawn. A gull taking itself for a griffin. And me running back to this game. #DragonsDogma2 #DD2 (PC) #virtualphotography #thephotomode

Hey, remember this? So, I've been teaching myself C++ to translate my simulation program. I did not expect Java to perform so well. JIT is nothing to scoff at. This was Object-Oriented. Now time to test with some dirty Data-Oriented design. #ComputerScience #CompSci #programming #C++ #Java

#SpiderMan #SpiderMan2PS5 #InsomGamesCommunity #VirtualPhotography #VPSupport

Andrea Calisi, Italian, 1968 The Bridge and the Blue Knight, 2026 Illustration #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Discovered Geany, I love how lightning fast it feels, but I was unhappy about its bracket auto-complete. So I resolved to fix it: the autocomplete plugin was enough, but I had to go tarball hunting, I was missing a header for GTK3, had to manually install... But now WE ARE FULLY OPERATIONAL

It's a sign. #DragonsDogma2

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Flowers in a vase, 1866 #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

The Errancy - J. Graham Take 5 mins to read this, you will not regret it. "But here, up on the hill, in town, the clusterings of dwellings in balconied crystal-formation, the cadaverous swallowings of the dream of reason gone, here, we stand in our hysteria with our hands in our pockets [...]"

One of my more elaborate Turing Machines (TM). This one only recognizes languages over {a,b} that do NOT have the same number of a's and b's. Music: Mystery Train, by Elvis Presley. #ComputerScience #CompSci

Summer skylights, no edits (phone pics cause I got nothing better)

Blessings of the Gingko Moon

Back to Hulkenberg posting Combat still terrible, the rest is *chef's kiss* #MetaphorRefantazio (PC)

My balcony cosmos from a 2-ish weeks ago. Wait till you see how they are now! Also, third is with the inseparable trio that wanted to flower simultaneously from the same stem. #photography | #flowers | #dslr (light edits in Shotwell Viewer)

Man I miss programming, it's been 2 months already, I need to get on that data mapping benchmark project Too bad this summer course is spreading my eyes apart. You try figuring out Greibach Normal Form transformations

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How it started and how it's going; the beans chapter #balconygardening (last pic from phone, others DLSR) (light edits in Shotwell Viewer)

Hazy heron #MinimalFriday Assassin's Creed Shadows #AssassinsCreedShadows #AssassinsCreed #VirtualPhotography

Five canto's in now, and I'm reaaally curious how the movie pans out. Especially: 1) what will be the "presence" of Gods/Immortals (some of the language is very allegorical as it concerns them) 2) what is the place of mortals in the determination of their own destiny (aka ruses vs gods)

And in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.

The best part of Musashi's Book of Five Rings is the scansion of it. The sentences are short. The meaning is clear. "This should be given careful consideration." But it lands so well!! It's a bit funny all the time, but it's also kind of cool! #booksky

Y'know, I used to think autumn was the romantic season to rule them all. But I was deceived. There is nothing more affirmative and limit-breaking than the spring-ing into life. I have become a spring person! Yuck!?!? (phone pics, unmodified because there's nothing to add, it's perfection)

Happy Anniversary! ⚔️ #TW3 #TheWitcher3

Planted some Cosmos on my balcony. I knew they were flowers but did not expect them to be so beautiful. The ridged but very tender petals are just 🫠🫠 Baby flowers pushing through the back too

TIL that at the Battle of Ligny (1815), Marshal Blücher, 72 years of age, personally led a cavalry charge, got his horse shot under him, and survived. Seventy-two, a "senior citizen", leading cavalry!.. #goals

Started the Odyssey (verse translation) & it's really good! Maybe even better at start than Aeneid. - realistic & substantive subterfuges (the weaving by Penelope) & discourses (Telemachus' agora) - tightening noose ambiance of Ithaca - nature symbolism (birds as augurs) and more! #booksky

Angles of approach #JediSurvivor (PC) #VPGreenWednesday #VirtualPhotography #thephotomode

‪Strong of body, whole of mind; I bend the light to my dance. #jediSurvivor #virtualphotography #thephotomode (PC) (Does anyone know why this game in particular compresses so badly on Bluesky?)

Hit this milestone odometer today while I went to get a new bike for my son (I've promoted him to pedals). I got it at ~65k? Next time this happens (2's), who knows what my world will look like, how old my kid will be... Maybe I will never get there because I don't drive enough 😁

Omg the lindens are budding, it means it's late spring already. Next week starts the new semester 😑🫡🥲 So long since solstice?.. 🤔 oof The long summer daylight & sunsets are pleasant, though. Bonus Gingko buds from a few days ago.

We live in a world of motion and distance. The heart flies from tree to bird, from bird to star, from star to love; and love grows in a quiet house, turning and turning, a servant of thought, a lamp held in one hand. ~Philippe Jaccottet

Who is Cal Kestis, Jedi Knight? #JediSurvivor #virtualphotography #thephotomode (PC)

I wrote about maps in games (mostly), after playthroughs of System Shock & Eastward. Have a read! (Eastward!? Not again!?!)

I'm pining for daddy Nolan to give me the Interstellar equivalent of The Odyssey! I love many of the trailer's visual tones, and I can't wait to find out if he can pull it off (Btw, Homeric tradition was oral aka meant for illiterate people, so it's fine that they're talking "American English")

I kind of enjoyed #Bloodlines2 on PS5 Despite: - severe frame hitches - no photo mode - cookie cutter beginning I will get this on PC sometime for the mods that hide the UI. I loved gliding on the rooftops, felt a bit like the Matrix and like a 360-era game. Urban lighting/feeling was great

Thaw of 2026, part 5 Reeds of retrogradation #photography | #dslr | #botanicalgarden (Light edits in Shotwell Viewer) (3rd is unashamedly Tarkovsky-inspired)

In this last writing of his, I find Rousseau's verve weakened but his will just as resolute. You read & don't quite realize that authors also led a life that ended. These Rêveries were a peculiar way of coming back, having to say goodbye, but wanting to re-read the rest now. #booksky #philosophy

All week Axis is more populated, but suddenly they are all sleeping Saturday morning pff #companyofheroes3 #pc

Got some writing in today; it always starts slow and then DEVELOPS; after, you get the feeling you can rest for the rest of the day, you did something important and worthwhile, you feel like enjoying yourself; the work mattered directly

Is bragging ethical? I don't know, but I got the only A+ in my intro to ethics class, and I'm pretty proud of that Thanks to Hume & Kant & Mill & Aristotle & all the contemporaries who have prolonged/critiqued their lines of thinking, the subject was a blast and has helped me see more clearly

Went on a much needed walk after doing taxes, but forgot my camera in the rush to get out A shame because the trees are just bursting, it is soooo pretty Phone pics will have to do IT'S SPRIIING #photography | #walking | #trees

A redolent spring breeze passes over me from the window nearby *cracks knuckles* Today will be a writing day.

As a child I was stumped on how they got the motion blur in this scene. It's claymation so it can't just be drawn in. Much later I found out that all the blur in the tracking and panning shots is actual *motion* blur. The sets were moved for a fraction of a second during each exposure!

Markus Matthias Krüger (German, b.1981) "Poplar Avenue in the Storm," 2010 Acrylic and oil on canvas 60 x 100 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt