I haven’t dedicated time to photography as a hobby for many months now, if not years. Sure, I have my camera or cameras with me when travelling, but not just for the fun of it. Is this something I can change, or have I just lost interest?
Shot with Sony A7R II + FE 35 mm f/1.8: f/1.8, 1/60 s, ISO 200.
This is Volume 2 of the Awesome Mix series from Guardians of the Galaxy, again as a custom playlist for Apple Music. You can find Vol. 1 here and Vol. 3 here.
I don’t know what’s happening with the official Disney OSTs for Guardians of the Galaxy, but they keep on disappearing for me. Additionally, the three mix tapes were combined into one huge one. This led me to create my own playlist in Apple Music, linked directly under the title of this post and embedded below.
You can find Vol. 2 here and Vol. 3 here.
Shortly after taking off from Lisbon, where we spent a week recovering from our daily routines, I had planned to go to sleep, but before I did, I glanced out of the window. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this combination of colours in my life.
The photo is unedited, no filters have been applied — it’s straight from the iPhone 15 Pro’s camera. It was however compressed from 2.1 MB down to 130 KB.
Shot with iPhone 15 Pro @ 48 mm: f/1.78, 1/50 s, ISO 100.
Shot with iPhone 15 Pro @ 77 mm: f/2.8, 1/223 s, ISO 25.
A view of the Baie des Anges (Bay of Angels) and Promenade des Anglais from Parc du Mont Boron, where amazing views are to be had. Looking west, at the very left tip of land is Nice Côte d’Azur Airport. See a photo of the view to the east below…
Shot with Sony A7R II + FE 28 mm f/2: f/8, 1/320 s, ISO 100.
See a panorama of Nice Port below →
Amazing place, well worth visiting. The colours and surrounding area are absolutely stunning.
Shot with Sony A7C + FE 35 mm f/1.8: f/8, 1/160 s, ISO 100.
I always found it extremely satisfying if I managed to get a good shot of one of these cute rodents.
Shot with Canon 10D + EF 70-200 mm f/2.8L IS: 200mm, f/2.8, 1/100s, ISO 400.
Shot with iPhone 13 Pro @ 77 mm: f/2.8, 1/221 s, ISO 32.
I recently had the amazing opportunity to fly a Diamond DA20 in a circuit around Warsaw — wonderful experience.
Shot with iPhone 12 Mini @ 26 mm: f/1.6, 1/2882s, ISO 32.
I remember thinking back then that that terrace was one place I wouldn’t mind eating breakfast on.
Shot with Canon 10D + EF 16-35 mm f/2.8L: 35mm, f/8, 1/250s, ISO 100.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
I recently set up a new completely new Home in the Home app and needed to move all my stuff over from one to the other. This turned out harder than I had anticipated.
I love how perspective not only makes the MacBook look tiny, but also breaks its symmetry.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro @ 52 mm: f/2, 1/105 s, ISO 160.
John Gruber, on Daring Fireball, has a fantastic story about Steve Jobs:
I’ve told this story on podcasts, but I’m not sure I’ve ever written it, and I think the time is right. Steve Jobs was on medical leave for the first half of 2009. When he returned in early summer, he devoted most of his attention and time to crafting and launching the original iPad, which was unveiled in April 2010. After that, he had meetings scheduled with teams throughout the company. One such meeting was about MacBooks. Big picture agenda. Where does Steve see the future of Mac portables? That sort of thing. My source for the story was someone on that team, in that meeting. The team prepared a veritable binder full of ideas large and small. They were ready to impress. Jobs comes in carrying a then-brand-new iPad and sets it down next to a MacBook the team had ready for demos. “Look at this.” He presses the home button on the iPad: it instantly wakes up. He does it again. The iPad instantly wakes up. Jobs points to the MacBook, “This doesn’t do that. I want you to make this” — he points to the MacBook — “do that” — he points to the iPad. Then he picks up the iPad and walks out of the meeting.
Steve Jobs would have fucking loved these M1 Macs.
Shot with iPhone 11 Pro @ 52 mm: f/2, 1/17 s, ISO 2000.
I took a motorcycle from Georgioupoli to Elafonisi, along the west coast of Crete — that stretch of road is truly fantastic.
Shot with Canon 10D + EF 16-35 mm f/2.8L: 35mm, f/8, 1/200s, ISO 100.
This is the one with the intercom feature for HomePods, but make sure to go through the on-boarding process in the Home app first, since it doesn’t seem to want to work otherwise.
Sam Curry:
Between the period of July 6th to October 6th myself, Brett Buerhaus, Ben Sadeghipour, Samuel Erb, and Tanner Barnes worked together and hacked on the Apple bug bounty program.
There were a total of 55 vulnerabilities discovered with 11 critical severity, 29 high severity, 13 medium severity, and 2 low severity reports. These severities were assessed by us for summarization purposes and are dependent on a mix of CVSS and our understanding of the business related impact. As of October 6th, 2020, the vast majority of these findings have been fixed and credited. They were typically remediated within 1-2 business days (with some being fixed in as little as 4-6 hours).
I was genuinely surprised Apple reacted so fast. The whole thing is well worth a read.
This is a small bug-fix update but well worth it, considering how buggy 14.0 is. I’m currently on the 14.2 beta and even that one is far from perfect.
Don’t forget to backup your device first and please be warned — iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 are still chock full of small bugs. You might have some software issues with your apps too, if they haven’t been updated yet.
One of the views from the beach in Georgioupoli on Crete.
Shot with Canon 10D + EF 16-35 mm f/2.8L: 35mm, f/11, 30s, ISO 100.
This release fixes a few bugs, which includes a “thermal management issue that caused some displays to exhibit a green tint.”
This was shot under Świętokrzyski Bridge in Warsaw.
Shot with Canon 10D + EF 24-70 mm f/2.8L: 25mm, f/22, 0.4s, ISO 100.
