Brian Hoffman

🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration.
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.

JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

YouTube video by Butser Ancient Farm How to Forge and Fletch a Saxon Arrowhead

From 1066 to Robin Hood, longbows are an iconic part of English history - and what's a bow without its arrows? Blacksmith Joe Tyler and craftsman Lewis Beck show us how to make a replica Saxon arrow based on local archaeology!

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Wow. Just the beauty I need right now.

Rules of the road are at the center of ICE occupation, resistance Whenever the ICE occupation finally ends — and it’s no longer necessary to track agents with cars — laws must be enforced.

Wrote down some thoughts I had while staring at a Dodge Durango full of Border Patrol dudes. www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

A small group of neighbors holding a candlelight vigil on an icy lake with streetlights and house lights along the far shore.

Como Lake in St. Paul

Thanks for sharing Bill!

Fantastic image.

Wow

Fascinating scene.

Great symmetry

Wow. Great action.

A pair of swans rest on the edge of an open lead on an otherwise ice and snow covered lake. The scene is all white, black, and grey. The snow and swan feathers are white. The open water and swan feet/beaks are the major black elements. The ice adds shades of grey. One swan is sitting on the ice with its long neck curled so that its head is upside down as it preens its wing feathers. The other swan is standing immediately next to its mate. Its head is curled downward as if to offer an affectionate nudge.

Today’s #BirdoftheDay theme is challenging for me. I love #B&W #photography but have always struggled taking good shots. This pair of #trumpeterswans on an icy lake seems a safe choice. The reflected swan face is my favorite element. #birds

Who wants to help me find a Brown Creeper? You Ready? Let’s GO!!! #WiscoBirder 📷👐🏾🫶🏾🪶

A slow-motion water crisis is unfolding around the world » Yale Climate Connections Many land areas are drying out as glaciers melt, soils lose moisture, and groundwater levels fall.

Scientists call this “continental drying”:

Nice double theme shot.

Sweet shot

A male and female Hooded Merganser are swimming side by side but in opposite directions. The female has just surfaced from a dive and has water droplets sliding off her head and back. The male is displaying with its white and black hood standing upright. The male’s yellow eye and auburn body add a bit of color in an otherwise brown and grey early spring scene.

A pair of #HoodedMergansers provide nice #SideProfiles for today’s #BirdoftheDay.

#birds #naturephotograpy #minnesota #birddisplay

Fantastic images. I’m surprised no one loses an eye.

All good but gull with fish is my favorite

Fantastic action

Great shot. Love the expressions.

Super shot

Great action

Wow

Nice moment

Great

Nice action shot

Great moment

Fantastic shots.

A close up photo of a male Hairy Woodpecker feeding its chick. The adult is clinging to the rough tree bark with its curved claws and leaning in towards the chick. The chick’s head is protruding from the nest hole. The chick’s beak is grasping the adult’s beak as it receives the food.

For today’s #AboutTheKids #BirdOfTheDay theme l chose this #HairyWoodpecker feeding a chick in our backyard maple tree. Sadly the tree is dying but at least we can enjoy its evolving bird habitat for a few years.

#birds #wildlifephotography #nature