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This was one of my favourite pages to set – it took longer than any other page in the book (each scarab is a separate photo, so it's 24 separate images to size properly and line up), but great fun to put together 😁

So gutted I couldn't get down for this (the joys of chronic health conditions ...). But, Ancient Egypt in 50 Discoveries is an amazing book written by some very talented people; definitely one for the Christmas list!
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I loved these sessions I spent documenting the work of these amazingly skilled conservators. I have more photos from the sessions in this blog post, if you're interested: tetisheri.co.uk/ceramics-con...

10 Historic Locations Featured in Classic British Horror Movies England's heritage as the location for horror films.

Fabulous tour of buildings and locations used in classic British horror movies 👻

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I'd like to think I'd got *something* right at some point ... 😅

One of the Egyptian galleries with visitors wandering around.

My youngest decided a trip to the World Museum was her chosen activity for her birthday (that's my girl!), so while she and her gaggle of teens are wandering around the various exhibits, I've set up camp in the Egyptian galleries. There could be worse ways to spend my Saturday morning …

Using photography to nurture your mental health | Tetisheri Find out how starting a photography hobby - like other forms of artistic pursuits - can help you nurture your mental health.

It's #WorldMentalHealthDay, so I thought I'd reshare this article I wrote a few years ago about using photography as a way to help nurture mental health. I wrote it when we were first thrust into the pandemic lockdown, but it's still just as relevant today.
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Rare 4,000-Year-Old Limestone Relief Disappears from Egypt’s Saqqara Necropolis An ancient Egyptian relief has disappeared from a Saqqara necropolis.

<headdesk>
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Nibiru and Planet Nine – have scientists found the home of the Annunaki? | Nick Garratt

Claims that we have found "Planet Nine" – and that it might be Niburu, home of the mystical Anunnaki – owe more to science fiction than to reality.

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

"OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, acknowledged in its own research that large language models will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering"

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Shadows of two thin branches with small leaves on a white wall. In the bottom right corner is a paper sculpture of a lighthouse in a glass round-topped case.

Plant shadows.
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Back in action! Summer break's come to an end; time to get photographing again.

I'm heading off to the @garstangmuseum.bsky.social on Wednesday for a photography session for the first time in a few months. What am I going to photograph? Find out in the update below 👇
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#AncientEgypt #Egyptology

Hugh Mangum, an photographer, travelled all across the US from the 1890s till his death in 1922s.
Possibly ignoring segregation laws in some places he welcomed everybody in front of his camera.
The results are fantastic.
If only these photos could talk.
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The full moon with the shadow of the Earth covering the top left quarter.

We didn't get to see much of the #LunarEclipse tonight, because we had to wait for the moon to rise above the houses across the street, but we managed to see a bit of it before the shadow of the earth disappeared.

Great news!

The palette is oval and flat, and grey in colour. It has holes for stringing on the top centre, and where the eye would be. It has lines etched into the surface along the back, denoting the dorsal fin, and on the tail.

Six years ago, I photographed this rather beautiful fish-shaped greywacke palette for the Garstang Museum of Archaeology's Before Egypt exhibition. It was found at the Hierakonpolis Fort Cemetery in Egypt, and dates to the Predynastic Period (c.4000–3000 BCE). #AncientEgypt #Egyptology

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

Why do we love pictures? A few thoughts to celebrate World Photography Day

Hey friends, in celebration of World Photography Day, I'm rerunning a post from last year. My advice: Dedicate your life to photography. Practice a little every day. Look and learn. It will change your life! www.flakphoto.news/p/why-do-we-...

The south end of a small church with a double stained glass window and a candelabrum hanging from the ceiling.

The interior of a small church, looking south to north. There are stone plaques on the wall and in the foreground is stone font.

Charlcombe Church – a Norman church, and the smallest in Bath – with the late afternoon sun flooding through the Victorian-era stained-glass windows.
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WePresent | Yash Sheth photographs monsoon season on Mumbai’s streets Photographer Yash Sheth has spent five years capturing monsoon season on the streets and grasslands of Mumbai

Photographer Yash Sheth documents monsoon season in Mumbai and how it has an impact on the lives of the city's residents.

Stunning collection of photographs!

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Ozzy Osbourne dies just weeks after farewell show The heavy metal star reunited with his Black Sabbath bandmates on stage at Villa Park earlier in July.

Genuinely sad about this. Ozzy was one of the major soundtracks of my misspent youth. RIP 🤘
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A blue, wheeled trolley with three trays of small Roman-era Egyptian artefacts. There are ceramic pots and statuettes, and a few pieces of jewellery.

Six years ago today I embarked upon the first of many sessions photographing artefacts in the collection at Manchester Museum for their Golden Mummies of Egypt exhibition. Having a trolley full of objects wheeled up to my photography corner in the museum stores was just utter joy!

Aw, they're beautiful, Sarah! I love sitting in the garden watching all the insects buzzing around the plants 😊

Artefacts in focus #4: a ram-headed sphinx amulet | Tetisheri Not all sphinxes are colossal-sized temple guardians. This amulet may be small, but it's definitely still 'Great'.

Not all sphinxes are colossal-sized temple guardians. This amulet may be small, but it's definitely still 'Great':
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#Egyptology #Sphinx #AncientEgypt #MuseumPhotography #MacroPhotography

Artefacts in focus #4: a ram-headed sphinx amulet | Tetisheri Not all sphinxes are colossal-sized temple guardians. This amulet may be small, but it's definitely still 'Great'.

My newest Artefacts in Focus article is now published! This latest one looks at an amulet of a ram-headed sphinx in the collection at the @garstangmuseum.bsky.social. #Egyptology #Sphinx #AncientEgypt #MuseumPhotography #MacroPhotography
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The photography is understated, thoughtful and just beautiful. And it's made all the greater with the knowledge that McCullin's photography over the last couple of decades has been a kind of therapy for the decades he spent documenting war and terror.

His photographic eye is just outstanding. 2/2

Don McCullin's photo of ancient pyramids in Sudan. In the foreground is a sand dune with a man on a camel. The pyramids are visible dropping behind the sand dune.

Just been reminded of some of my absolute favourite photography: Don McCullin's photography of culture and heritage, particularly of ancient sites like this one from the pyramids of the ancient kingdom of Kush (now part of Sudan). 1/2
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Have you ever watched The Who Was Show? My girls loved that one, it was really quite funny and featured some talented teen actors. It never got renewed after the first season, which we were disappointed about.

A pink flower in a pot with the morning sun shining on it.

A flowering purple buddleia in the morning sunshine with a bee buzzing next to it.

Good morning! It's a lovely sunny morning here in Liverpool, and the garden's already buzzing with life 😍
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Beautiful, dahling!