Goodbye ChessBase - Hello HIARCS

#chessbasesucks #donewithmonopoly #chessbasenotlistening

From My Front Door – A Second Look – Analog Photography Returning to familiar paths near home with a Zeiss Ikonta and Pentacon Six TL — a second look at Bear Creek, local parks, and what repetition reveals in landscape photography

Somehow, it’s already March 2026 😉
Over the past year I kept returning to the same places near home with medium-format film cameras. Here’s the story behind From My Front Door — Second Look.

#photography #mediumformat #analog

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Somehow, it’s already March 2026 😉
Over the past year I kept returning to the same places near home with medium-format film cameras — and realized the familiar doesn’t get boring, it gets deeper.

Here’s the story behind From My Front Door — Second Look.

#AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat […]

impressive!!

2025 Woodworking Year in Review Back with another woodworking year in review, only a couple months late. This year was rough. Early in the year I inherited another…

@drandrewthaler.bsky.social, not sure if you've shared your woodworking year in review for 2025, your projects are still inspiring.

I just summarized my 2025 in the shop: a year spent doing much more in the field & at work and not enough tool time at home. Still, a few notable projects completed.

Dutch grandmaster Jan Timman, another #chess legend of my youth, has passed away. #RIP
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📷 IBM tournament Amsterdam 1978

A photo from Timman's Twitter featuring his cat Artemis on a chessboard and a number of antique chess sets in an apartment. https://x.com/GMJanTimman/status/1687498481638711296

Timman was also one of the people I missed most when leaving Chess twitter. He shared endgame studies he was working on and weekly quotes from other players on chess. Plus this gem: his cat Artemis with what appears to be an amazing collection of antique chess sets. I would love to see the rest

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Jan Timman (1951–2026), one of the greatest figures in Dutch and international chess. ♟

A World Championship contender and the strongest non-Soviet player of his generation, Timman was admired for his creative style, profound strategic

Grenadine
#PictureOfTheDay #FotoDesTages
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nailed it!

I didn’t come here to document a place — I came to spend time with it. This film is about slowing down, noticing light, texture, and silence, and allowing a place to reveal itself frame by frame.
Shot on film with the Pentacon Six TL.
If you watched this quietly, that’s enough for me.
Wish you […]

Wrapstodon 2025 for Digital Detox Photography See how Digital Detox Photography used Mastodon this year!

I got the The Archer archetype!

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#Wrapstodon2025

White to move and win:

I often wonder what I’m doing here

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This black and white photograph captures a man in an orchard, surrounded by trees with fruit-laden branches. He is dressed casually for manual labor; wearing overalls, rolled-up sleeves, and a hat to shield himself from the sun. In his left hand, he holds what appears to be a sack of harvested produce or perhaps tools related to farming work. His right arm supports him as if steadying against an unseen force, possibly wind pushing branches in motion. The man is gazing directly at the camera with a slight smile on his face, exuding a sense of contentment and pride likely associated with his laborious task. The background reveals dense foliage typical of orchard trees, suggesting that this scene takes place during harvest season when such activities are common. There's no explicit indication of what he is picking specifically; however, the general context suggests it could be fruit or nuts commonly found in an orchard setting. A notable feature includes a tall ladder leaning against one tree partially obscuring the view but indicating ongoing work that requires reaching higher branches. The image evokes themes of rural life and agricultural labor during a time when such manual efforts were crucial for livelihoods, particularly in areas like Washington's Yakima Valley. Notably absent are any modern machinery or vehicles, implying this might be from an earlier era where hu [...]

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Picking pears. Pleasant Hill Orchard. Washington, Yakima Valley. See general caption number 34

#PleasantHillOrchard #Washington #YakimaValley #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773268/

how about MBASIC?

Witkoff did this precisely because his boss told him to.

Straight from the playbook a century ago. And the idiots don't even realize that the chaotic withdrawal in Afghanistan was directly orchestrated by Dump in April 2020, when he ordered the troop level to be drawn down to a skeleton crew.

Pentacon Six TL in Arizona – Desert Light on Medium Format Film YouTube video by Henry's Digital Detox Photography

My newest YouTube Video is online:
Pentacon Six TL in Arizona – Desert Light on Medium Format Film
Thanks for watching, like & subscribe - it helps a lot.
Happy Thanksgiving

#pentaconsixtl #mediumformat #analogphotography #arizona #grandcanyon #sedona #fp4 #xp2

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The Forest Practices Board got it right.
Greater shade margins beside streams cools the runoff water into the streams, cooling the streams for fish and all stream dependent wildlife.

Louis XIV, the Sun King, died in 1715. The first golf course in France was built in 1856.
Your story is fake.

My newest YouTube Video is online:
Pentacon Six TL in Arizona – Desert Light on Medium Format Film

Thanks for watching, like & subscribe - it helps a lot

#filmphotography #pentaconsixtl #mediumformat #analogphotography #arizona #grandcanyon #sedona #desertlight #biometar #fp4 #xp2 #photography […]

My new YouTube video will go online soon.
Here is a short for now.

Preview: Desert Hike - Pentacon Six

#analogphotography #blackandwhitephotography
#grandcanyon
#sedona

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and now go for the interview with MTG :-) just saying :-)

in all these years of nonsense I NEVER had seen her taking like this.

crushed ice?

Just had an unforgettable two hour conversation with President Obama 🤯🇺🇸

Georgia governor? Thinking loud :-)

Columbia River Gorge

Moonlight Shadow 🌔

Pentacon Six TL
Carl Zeiss Biometar f2.8 120mm
Yellow Filter
Velbon Tripod
Ilford XP2 Super 400

#believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #filmphotography #Ilford #pentacon

Driftwood Sentinel – Whidbey Island (R32 I13)

Photographed on Whidbey Island, Washington, looking out toward Smith Island.

Camera: Pentacon Six TL
Film: Kodak Gold 200
Lens: Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar 80mm f/2.8
Exposure: 1/125s @ f/11

#believeinfilm #FilmIsNotDead #kodak #photography […]

Lost Places – The Forgotten Oven (R30|001)

An old oven sits in the yard of an abandoned farmhouse, framed by fruit trees. Part of Lost Places — a visual journey into abandoned homes and fading structures, captured on black-and-white film.
Camera: Zeiss Ikon Ikonta 521/2, Zeiss Tessar 4.5/10.5 […]