Birda Monday November 21, 2022
You love photographing birds but aren’t sure what species you’re documenting? Bird identification can be tough, but the Birda app can help, notes PetaPixel. It does this through what the company behind the app calls its “location-aware” species list. When a user logs a sighting record into the app, the species list in Birda shows them only the birds that have already been seen in their general location (a radius of about 60 kilometers).
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COLOSSAL Monday November 21, 2022
Photographer Levon Biss is known for using the macro to investigate the micro, notes Colossal, which features Biss’s new series on butterfly pupae. The work captures what Biss calls “the diversity of design and form” through portraits of some 30 specimens as they undergo metamorphosis and complete the final, most vulnerable stage of the transition from adolescence to adulthood. Viewers may simply be struck by the delicate beauty and variety of the butterfly chrysalises Biss has photographed.
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New York Post Monday November 21, 2022
We recently noted that people in Australia are dying after accidentally falling from cliffs, possibly while taking selfies. But selfie-related deaths are a global phenomenon. The New York Post and other sites have reported that a young man fell 40 feet to his death after he slipped while snapping a cliff-side selfie at a scenic location in Brazil. The accident took place on November 10 on a rock overlooking Joatinga Beach in Rio de Janeiro. The man, Igor de Oliveira Rodrigues Dias, had gone there to celebrate getting a new job. Selfies are fun, but they’re also a health issue.
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CNN Monday November 21, 2022
Maybe product delays are okay: Amazon founder and spaceship maker Jeff Bezos recently warned consumers and businesses they should consider postponing large purchases in the coming months as the global economy contends with a downturn. In an interview with CNN, Bezos urged people to put off expenditures for big-ticket items such as new cars, televisions and appliances (PPD assumes that big camera gear purchases might also qualify), noting that delaying big purchases is the surest way to keep some “dry powder” in the event of a prolonged economic downturn.
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