A guy carrying a surfboard jogs across some rocks. He's silhouetted in front of an early-morning sun, which is also reflecting off the wet rocks in the foreground.
Early morning surfer, Gerringong NSW, March 2024.
๐ท Sony A7IV | Sony 24-105 F4
ฦ/4 | 1/5000s | 105mm | ISO100
#sonyalpha #sonya7iv #sony24105f4 #gerringong #surfphotography
Art But Make It Sports, but it's a book.
Sometimes something turns up in the mail that makes your whole day better...
Love your work, @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social !
You're confusing the toast sandwich with bread toast. Easy mistake to make.
Love the precision of the magnitude compared to the location:
"Woah, a mag 1.26824609411482 quake!"
"Oh! Where?"
"I dunno, a couple of km that-way-ish, maybe...?"
You know, for a platform that's pushing everyone so heavily towards video these days instead of the more photo-based thing that made them huge in the first place, #instagram really is a pretty shit platform to watch videos on.
Potential compromise: everyone is eligible, but if you don't reach the minimum games threshold, your final points tally for an award is scaled down based on the proportion of the season you missed? Could provide incentive to play as many games as possible, but wouldn't eliminate those who can't...?
How much difference does it make if you exclude Bam's 83 from the average?
FYI @blurangengold.bsky.social , this one is reposting every 2 minutes...
Eastern Rosella. We normally only get the Crimson ones around here, so it's nice to see one of these dudes for a change.
#easternrosella #australianbirds #canberrabirds
Based on Joker's facial expression and my very bad lip-reading skills, I thought he was saying "You mad?", like he was making sure Joker wasn't gonna go punch someone or something...
(Quick follow-up to give Sarah McLeod credit for her brief but perfectly cromulent performance as Rosie Cotton.)
Absolutely yes. In fact, can we do this for *every* female character? Move over Liv Tyler, Miss Piggy's marrying Aragorn now. Nice try Miranda Otto, Miss Piggy's taking out the Witch King now. I don't even know who played Rosie Cotton, but it's Miss Piggy now, dammit!
Piggy as Gandalf, right up until they get to Lothlorien, at which point she switches to Galadriel (because no-one else is capable of portraying her beauty, of course).
I call this one "It's so nice that I can see the stars from the bedroom window, and very cool that the astro function on my phone camera lets me take a photo of it, but on the whole I really would rather be able to just fall asleep..."
๐ท Google Pixel 9a | f1.7, 16s, 4.53mm, ISO1684
#pixel9a
For some reason I absolutely love it when they put two people up there but one of them hasn't noticed, so the other person says "look, we're on the jumbotron!", then just as the first person is turning to look up at it they cut away to someone else. It happens so often, it's gotta be intentional!
Based on some of his recent comments, it kinda sounds like the Giannis-Bucks relationship is at the 'staying together for the kids' stage...
side profile of a red and green juvenile crimson rosella in front of a green leafy background
Top tip for taking bird photos: plant a tree that's full of seeds they like, then wait...
Juvenile crimson rosella nomming on our bookleaf pine tree.
๐ท Sony A7IV | Tamron 50-400 f4.5-6.3
ฦ/6.3 | 1/1000s | 400mm | ISO2500
#sonya7iv #tamron50400mm #crimsonrosella #australianbirds #canberrabirds
You are now familiar with the feeling Australians get when we find out about Outback Steakhouse.
sulfur-crested cockatoo sitting in a tree nomming on a seed nut
Hullo, cockie!
๐ท Sony A7IV | Tamron 50-400 f4.5-6.3
f6.3 | 1/800s | 400mm | ISO 4000
#sonya7iv #tamron50400mm #australianbirds #sulphurcrestedcockatoo #canberrabirds
Two full days into this jigsaw puzzle and we've finally found the last f'ing edge piece...
Happy new year, BSky.
Horsehead Nebula
๐ท Sony A7IV
Tamron 50-400 f4.5-6.3
@moveshootmove Nomad star tracker
ฦ/6.3 | 30s | 400 mm | ISO3200
20 exposures stacked in Affinity 3
Taken from Dead Horse Gap, Kosciuszko National Park, NSW
Hate this argument. Genuinely don't understand why teams fouling while up is bad but fouling while down is fine. It's professional sport, not Mario Kart - why are we penalising a team for having a lead?
Been doing that monthly for ages now! Patreon must be screwing you on the currency conversion...
Every now and then I remember that "hey, bsky is a thing that I can actually post to, not just scroll through what other people have posted". So in the spirit of that thought, here's some aurora photos I took last night.
#auroraaustralis
How does that compare to just the first week of games from previous seasons? Don't they often start off calling things a bit tighter?
Any list of best NBA names that doesn't include Sandro Mamukelashvili is invalid.
Scaling back the Las Vegas focus of the NBA Cup finals in preparation for Vegas getting an expansion team in a couple of years maybe? Or just giving teams more incentive to care about the Cup because it might get them an extra home game...?
Keeping an increasingly pessimistic eye on the weather forecast for this here in SE Australia...
there are people who claim that Terry Pratchett would have been a TERF if he was still alive
to them I say two things:
1. are you fucking serious
2. go fuck yourselves