Fall Foliage Prediction Map Thursday October 6, 2022
Have you noticed that nip in the air? It’s the time of year when photographers of all sorts make plans to capture the vibrant colors of fall foliage. Make your planning a bit more efficient with the Fall Foliage Prediction Map. The map uses a complex algorithm that analyzes several million data points and outputs approximately 50,000 predictive data pieces, notes DIY Photography. This data then enables our program to forecast county-by-county the precise moment when peak fall will occur.
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Voracious Books Thursday October 6, 2022
On Barack Obama’s last day as president, his official White House photographer, Pete Souza, took a photograph of White House aides rifling through the drawers of the Resolute Desk to make sure the departing chief executive had left nothing behind, thereby capturing what The New York Times calls “one of the most complicated presidential transitions in American history.” The image is featured in Souza’s new book The West Wing and Beyond: What I Saw Inside the Presidency. By design, the book does not feature photos of Obama.
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Bloomberg Thursday October 6, 2022
As we noted recently, photography is a big part of the NFT art space. On the other hand, Bloomberg reports that trading volumes in nonfungible tokens — digital art and collectibles recorded on blockchains — have tumbled 97 percent from a record high in January. They slid to just $466 million in September from $17 billion at the start of 2022. The fading NFT mania is part of a wider, $2 trillion wipeout in the crypto sector as rapidly tightening monetary policy starves speculative assets of investment flows.
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David Schonauer Thursday October 6, 2022
Resistance is not futile: A new tool now allows photographers to check whether their images have been scraped from the internet and used to train AI-image generators. The website Have I Been Trained
was developed in response to growing worries over image synthesis models learning from artists' images-and potentially replicating their artistic styles. Developed by a group of artists, the site taps
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