Matthias Stone

Close frame of a black cat on a yellow chair looking into the distance.

Successful portrait of a very black cat!

I appreciate that cats spend so much time licking their butts.

It makes me confident they're putting clean things on my face.

Close crop of a Red-winged Blackbird in flight. Nikon z6iii, 400mm, f7.1, 1/3200s

Guess which side is the edge of the camera frame.

That's awesome! I've had to filter-branch to move subdirectories and an octopus merge to bring the different origins together.

10x more elegant, I want this.

Pileated Woodpecker

This sizable Pileated Woodpecker was hammering on a hollow log next to the trail. Loud, bright, hard to miss. I went a few steps away to watch strangers get excited spotting them.

A flock of Bohemian Waxwings flying through the berry laden branches of a Mountain Ash tree.

Waxwings hit up the mountain ash berries today. An intimidating reminder that they outnumber me.

This might be more iconic than, "Nobody wants to work anymore."

You both wanted to exit the conversation politely but ended up dating for three months because it's the culture.

Flirting in Montreal is just the local Minnesota nice.

Foam? A Cheeto? I never figured it out.

They should go wearing T-shirts and jeans.

A ruffled grouse peeks through a handful of bare of branches, convinced it is unseen. Nikon Z6iii 400mm f6.3 1/1250

Peek-a-boo!

Sometimes you just get lucky.

This blue jay with its meal.

Me, with this picture of this blue jay with its meal.

You, reading this post about my picture of this blue jay with its meal.

Thanks for this, shared it around with a few anxious folk.

"Five bridges are closing at the same time," is a lot quicker to say than the truth, not surprised it got around so fast.

I read this as Catholic and thought, "Yup. Just go to confession."

"Timeliness is thoughtfulness," I remind myself again hitting send on a text that isn't perfect — but maybe didn't need an hour of revisions.

CANADA WINS TARIFF TERMS ACCEPTED BY AMERICA --The Guardian Journal, 31 Mar 1910

1910

I realized that when I think of writing a book or a script, or creating a podcast or doing a TikTok video, that that is the best part. Thinking about it. No one understands the trauma of the really lazy.

Today I learned that Facebook has settings you can change to show less low-quality and unoriginal content.

The default settings are... not less.

The full moon. Nikon Z6iii, 400mm, f10, 1/320, ISO100

There are many photos of tonight's wolf moon.

But this one is mine.

A Shetland Sheepdog gleefully bounding across a snowy field.

My mom's dog knows how to celebrate a holiday.

A wooden staircase in snow layered with low sunlight, ash berries, and out of focus leaves hanging on from the fall in the foreground. Nikon Z6iii, 400mm, f11, HDR

I love the light at winter's minimum up north. Here the sun peaks at 13 degrees above the horizon so sunrise slowly eases into sunset.

This looks due south at 1230. Waking up before the sun is miserable, but the light all day can be ethereal.

Yay! Make the switch permanent so they stop spreading litter on the floor. I love top entry litter boxes.

Because he knows how regal he looks.

Not to worry, there will be a new quantum release of Teams to prevent that.

"I promised the boy I wouldn't tell anyone." - My brother, declining to tell an embarassing story about his 6 week old son.

He's gonna be such a good dad.

I like the technical aspect of this type of photography, thinking: This will work out later in post. I have the tools and process and present this how I want.

I've been using Hugin to stitch panoramas together since 2005. This shot of Calgary is a top 5 result to my tastes.

Full double rainbow over the city of Calgary. 15 frame HDR panoramic composite, Nikon Z6.

Friend: Why are we stopping the car?

Me: 👇 (Calgary, 2022)

According to NVidia over 80% of their revenue is from Linux powered computers.

So, probably.