Inspiring blogs or other online resources

[Rikard]

It's just hard to find good stuff online nowadays. It's just too much. And social media is the "opium for the masses" of our time. There are some good work being shown there, but mostly it's formulaic eye candy.
So please recommend me some inspiring blogs, magazines etc.
For instance, I like this blog here, Immemorymag. They showcase bodies of work from select contemporary photographers. It's a mix of conceptual and documentary.

 

[wlewisiii]

The only other photoblog I bother with is Mike Johnston's The Online Photographer Much more talky than most and often off topic but always interesting, I find.

 

[Glenn2]

There’s a site I check every day that’s amazing and inspiring. It’s astronomy picture of the day, everything from terrestrial to big telescope images. The archives of past images are well worth exploring, but you may get hooked.

Astronomy Picture of the Day

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

apod.nasa.gov

 

[raydm6]

Have you checked out Shorpy and Juniper Galley?

Shorpy.com

Shorpy Vintage HD Photo Archive

www.shorpy.com

Juniper Gallery | Shorpy Fine Art Prints by Juniper Gallery

The Shorpy store. Prints suitable for framing. Juniper Gallery | Shorpy Fine Art Prints by Juniper Gallery.

www.junipergallery.com

 

[Rikard]

There’s a site I check every day that’s amazing and inspiring. It’s astronomy picture of the day, everything from terrestrial to big telescope images. The archives of past images are well worth exploring, but you may get hooked.

Astronomy Picture of the Day

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

apod.nasa.gov

That's wonderful. I find astronomy fascinating and always wanted a telescope. But I live in the middle of a city so too much light pollution. But, I did find this script that automatically downloads the Astronomy picture of the day and sets it as my background. Pretty cool. It's for Mac.

GitHub - niu541412/APOD_Mac_Daily: A script that works together to download the astronomy picture of the day (also know as APOD) and set it as the current desktop wallpaper in MacOS

 

[p.giannakis]

Threads like this give me the opportunity to constantly complain about Magnum shutting down access to their archives (I always take the opportunity to complain). It was "THE Space/blog" to visit and get inspiration.

RFF and one more forum are the only places I visit to see pictures. I think blogging is considered IT archaeology nowadays, a curiosity from the past. Don't get me wrong, I have 3 blogs I will keep blogging for as long as I can but it is not very popular any more. My friend Nasos has a very nice blog but he is not updating it any more. You can have a look here: [ΠεÏί ΦÏÏογÏαÏίαÏ]

@wlewisiii ideas of Mike's blog is very good. I used to read it a decade ago but after switching to another computer, I didn't transfer the bookmarks and ended up sliding into oblivion. It seems I have a lot of catching up to do.

 

[Out to Lunch]

[ΠεÏί ΦÏÏογÏαÏίαÏ]

Beautiful photos!

 

[raydm6]

That's wonderful. I find astronomy fascinating and always wanted a telescope. But I live in the middle of a city so too much light pollution. But, I did find this script that automatically downloads the Astronomy picture of the day and sets it as my background. Pretty cool. It's for Mac.

GitHub - niu541412/APOD_Mac_Daily: A script that works together to download the astronomy picture of the day (also know as APOD) and set it as the current desktop wallpaper in MacOS

@Rikard, can you provide some details on where to load and run this script? I know how to use command line but am a little confused on how to implement the scripts per the link you provided.

Thanks.

 

[girdwoodINC]

LFI is always worth a visit for current gallery and magazine archive

 

[Richard G]

That's wonderful. I find astronomy fascinating and always wanted a telescope. But I live in the middle of a city so too much light pollution. But, I did find this script that automatically downloads the Astronomy picture of the day and sets it as my background. Pretty cool. It's for Mac.

GitHub - niu541412/APOD_Mac_Daily: A script that works together to download the astronomy picture of the day (also know as APOD) and set it as the current desktop wallpaper in MacOS

I fowllow Andrew McCarthy on Twitter (X). He puts paid to the myth of the suburban or even inner city backyard. It is amazing what he does with a twelve inch in a city.

x.com

x.com

RG

 

[Rikard]

@Rikard, can you provide some details on where to load and run this script? I know how to use command line but am a little confused on how to implement the scripts per the link you provided.

Thanks.

Sure. So this is what I did:

Download the zip (Green drop down that says "<> Code")
Put the downloaded folder somewhere. I put it under Documents
Open terminal and run the commands
> cd Documents/APOD_Mac_Daily-master/
> chmod +x *sh
> sudo su
> crontab -e
This opens up a VI session. Change the line
"0 12 * * * /Users/username/Pictures/APOD_Mac_Daily/apod_daily.sh"
to
"0 12 * * * /Users/username/Documents/APOD_Mac_Daily/apod_daily.sh"
where username should be replaced with your actual one.
save the file.

to test the script run it like
> ./apod_daily.sh

The picture should appear on your desktop.

 

[raydm6]

Sure. So this is what I did:

Download the zip (Green drop down that says "<> Code")
Put the downloaded folder somewhere. I put it under Documents
Open terminal and run the commands
> cd Documents/APOD_Mac_Daily-master/
> chmod +x *sh
> sudo su
> crontab -e
This opens up a VI session. Change the line
"0 12 * * * /Users/username/Pictures/APOD_Mac_Daily/apod_daily.sh"
to
"0 12 * * * /Users/username/Documents/APOD_Mac_Daily/apod_daily.sh"
where username should be replaced with your actual one.
save the file.

to test the script run it like
> ./apod_daily.sh

The picture should appear on your desktop.

Awesome! Thank you. I'll give it a try.

 

[raydm6]

@Rikard I am stuck after invoking:
> crontab -e

It's been awhile since I used VI (I have used GNU Emacs in the past or simple text editor on Mac). Not seeing the
"0 12 * * * /Users/username/Pictures/APOD_Mac_Daily/apod_daily.sh" line.

I opened the apod_daily.sh and random.sh files but did not see that line to edit.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

[Rikard]

@Rikard I am stuck after invoking:
> crontab -e

It's been awhile since I used VI (I have used GNU Emacs in the past or simple text editor on Mac). Not seeing the
"0 12 * * * /Users/username/Pictures/APOD_Mac_Daily/apod_daily.sh" line.

I opened the apod_daily.sh and random.sh files but did not see that line to edit.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

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Ahh, yes I'm sorry. You need to paste that line into the crontab file.

 

[raydm6]

@Rikard ok thanks. Got it to work but the image is not covering all of my 27" iMac screen (about 2 inches on each side greyed out). Are there any resolution tweeks?

And if I want to stop daily updates and set my own wallpaper, how do you stop the process? Thanks again!

 

[Bob Michaels]

I find myself continually surrounded by great photography and blogs without even searching. Its on the front page of newspapers, magazines, billboards, and everywhere around me. Walk by any news stand and the covers of the magazines on display will have more than any specific blog you can search out. It seems to me that others are ignoring the obvious.

 

[Rikard]

@Rikard ok thanks. Got it to work but the image is not covering all of my 27" iMac screen (about 2 inches on each side greyed out). Are there any resolution tweeks?

And if I want to stop daily updates and set my own wallpaper, how do you stop the process? Thanks again!

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I'm not really an expert on these things. But I suppose that if you want to stop the updates you simple do the crontab -e thing and remove the added line. Sorry I dont know how to change the resolution. It fills mine.

 

[Dogman]

Most of the sites I've been visiting for years have stopped or slowed down with postings. Some have become "arty" with photography as an element of design, not really photography emphasized anymore. I like these a lot:

MONOVISIONS - Black & White Photography Magazine

Welcome to MONOVISIONS, Online Black and White Photography Magazine! Your Everyday Source of B&W Inspirations.

monovisions.com

And this one:

FK

Probably several others that have frequent or occasional good stuff but I'm blank right now.


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