I wish Harris was coming out more strongly, or at all really, against Israel's genocide. I can't imagine Trump will do anything substantial to reduce the conflict, certainly not more than Harris will.
I do not understand the Sophie Scholl analogy. Sophie distributed anti-war leaflets, among other things. She did not advocate voting for another party that would likely just continue the war, while also removing other freedoms, into power.
It goes beyond this to the things people print. There's a lot of... low shelf life dudads turned out by a subset of our community. For example, a coworker printed each of the ten of us a 4" tall Groot as a holiday present pre-covid. I bet most of those wound up in the bin. I totally get the hobby of collecting trinkets, but often wonder about the end state - it will all eventually need a new home or will end up in a landfil.
Plastic recycling is a fine idea, but in many cases the material winds up getting shipped overseas and burned. It's also the least preferred option of reduce, reuse, recycle. It is cool that some filament companies are now accepting scraps, but that's not very common (yet?). I also wonder how they deal with contamination. Sorting the different plastic types is difficult today from my understanding. That and low resale value is why plastics recycling is struggling.
All that said, I am a massive believer in functional prints. You can breathe new life into existing things and the things you create can be here for a long time.
One sure fire way to ID is that only bees wear pollen pants
Great!
(but not all bees are always wearing pollen pants)
Doh!
As I catch up on bee photos it will be interesting if someone identifies a well disguised hover fly.
No problem!
On Google maps, "CVS photo" will turn up if you search for it. I suspect staples can do photos too, I just haven't used them.
As for Meijer vs Walmart, we haven't set foot in a Walmart since we moved to the Midwest - not that we were doing that frequently before we moved here. I have no experience one way or the other with Walmart photo, but suspect most retail locations are probably fairly comparable. The market doesn't seem that big anymore, so they might even be running similar equipment behind their branding.
Thank goodness. I just grabbed this off Wikipedia and I have no hope with some of these:
Cruelty free even!
Free range, homegrown!
All the time, three meals a day
Haha, it is indeed an ugly fish. I guess you could use its mouth as an ashtray.
This was more of a proof of concept than anything else - will a low effort piece survive a very low effort pit firing or will it crack/shatter/explode? Now that I know the answer is no, I'll be willing to invest more time making a nice piece and will play with different burn materials to get a nice range of colors
Yup. It can also cause kidney stones..
Note that this normally wouldn't be a problem, even if you eat a ton in one sitting sporadically, but if you consistently eat decent quantities of peanut butter you may rub into problems. A coworker intentionally at PB&J for their first three years after college to build up a nest egg and wound up in the hospital. Looking back, I wonder if this played a role.
Hi fellow photographers!
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Do you render your digital pictures on paper (print)?
Yes! We do the usual 4x6 stuff, make a yearly calendar that I think is 13"x13", and have a mix of larger prints (yearly family photo) and canvases (things that will be on the wall longer)
Do you use a printer in the home for it?
No, we use a mix of local brick and mortar, Shutterfly, and I think CanvasChamp
What printer do you use?
N/A, but if you're looking to buy the thing to look for is a sublimation printer. This is what photo labs use. It will cost more than an inkjet up front, but will be much lower hassle with no no clogged nozzles.
It might be worth calculating the break even cost vs just using a lab though. I suspect a lab will be hard to beat unless you print a lot.
What printer would you recommend with cost vs quality in mind? (8.5 x 11 prints would be fine)
No idea, sorry :(
Do you send your pictures to a commercial printer?
Yes! See above.
Do you goto the nearest Staples or Walmart and use the printers there?
I have used both CVS and Meijer (Midwest not-walmart-walmart), but mostly for smaller batches where shipping doesn't make sense. No real complaints, but their machines can be a bit fiddly.
That ceiling and the archways seem way too nice for that carpet, lol.