The real bullet flew long before the shot was fired.
We’re in a hall of mirrors: truth refracted, blame manufactured, healing impossible when everyone’s still sharpening their knives.
The truth of who Tyler Robinson really was has peeled back the thin veneer; now every pundit and politician from every podium is trying to write the story their way… to rope in sympathy, outrage, conspiracy, tribal loyalty.
The knives are out, the rhetoric is already spitting flame - both sides clawing to pin this “assassination” on the other, like scavengers circling over some rotten meat. An orgy of rumor and blame.
I like Topaz. It works pretty well
Yes it will look worse. You're essentially quadrupling the resolution of a 1080p video, enlarging the pixels and making it look worse than at native resolution.
There are some options for "upscaling" 1080p to 4k, which will improve the results, but likely won't look as good as video shot in 4k.
Thanks for the share!
The local foothills are incredibly beautiful
It’s wild how often the so-called lower life forms have this figured out better than we do. Mutual benefit without ego, just survival, balance, and showing up for the system that feeds you. Roddenberry might’ve been writing sci-fi, but he was aiming at something real.
Totally fair. Our Nederland comes with mountains, moose, and confusing names. Appreciate the kind words.
There’s something about trail miles that sticks, even when the boots stay in the closet. Roots have their own kind of depth, but yeah, the mountains leave a mark nothing else quite fills. Glad you’re still moving through it.
Right on - thank you
Thank you! 🙏
Me too. Just decided to go see the remaining crew in San Francisco!
THANKS!
Thank you for the kind words
Totally get that. The world’s a mess, but the sky’s still doing its job. Glad you’ve got a place to breathe under it. Even if it’s ten minutes out. That counts.
Thanks much!
THANK YOU!
A black-and-white photograph of a wide ocean expanse under a sky filled with cumulus clouds. The water surface is textured with small, rhythmic waves extending from the foreground to the distant horizon, where the sea meets a thin, flat line of light. Sunlight reflects off the surface, creating a shimmering path of brightness across the midsection of the image. The clouds above are dense, varied in size, and heavily backlit, with their edges glowing softly against the sky. The photo is devoid of human presence—no ships, no shoreline, no wildlife—emphasizing the scale and isolation of the open sea. The monochrome treatment enhances the contrast between the light on the water and the darker wave troughs, giving the scene a stark, almost meditative tone. The composition draws attention to the horizontal layering of sea, light, and sky, capturing a moment of atmospheric stillness with an underlying sense of depth and distance.
It’s beautiful until you think about what’s beneath it: a prehistoric struggle for survival and control.
This is what corruption looks like when it’s winning.
Open. Calm. Limitless.
That’s the trick. Keep the surface glossy and the secrets deep.
Politics, ocean, same rules.
#SurfaceTension
"Once in a while you get shown the light. In the strangest of places if you look at it right."
-Robert Hunter/Jerry Garcia
Yea I'm 100% a transplant and after an extended visit here we immediately sold our house and moved to the area. The curse is real.
I am the traffic.
I grew up in Florida cow fields.... they were bountiful
There were a LOT of bush and trees between us and I was ready to make a hasty retreat.
Thankfully didnt need to.
A photograph of a downed log lying across a dirt trail in a dense, sun-dappled forest. The large tree trunk dominates the foreground, its bark weathered, split, and partially illuminated by a shaft of direct sunlight filtering through the forest canopy. The surrounding area is shaded, with tall trees casting long shadows and undergrowth filling the forest floor. A mix of grasses and low vegetation grows alongside the trail, while a few young saplings lean toward the filtered light. The log appears old and partially decayed, its exposed wood cracked and textured from years of weathering. The trail curves gently to the right, disappearing into deeper shadow. The scene is quiet, still, and layered with detail, capturing a moment of natural decomposition and regeneration typical of temperate deciduous forest ecosystems.
You want to talk about resilience?
Look at this thing.
Still holding light. Still feeding fungi. Still in the shot.
Falling apart isn’t failure.
It’s participation.
A black and white close-up photograph of a single dandelion flower in full bloom, positioned slightly off-center in the foreground. Its slender stem rises vertically from a tangle of out-of-focus grasses, while another wilted dandelion stem bends nearby. The background is a soft blur of circular bokeh highlights, created by sunlight reflecting off water or wet foliage, giving a shimmering, abstract quality. The lighting emphasizes the fine texture of the petals and stem, with high contrast between the illuminated flower and the deep shadows surrounding it. The overall mood is quiet and contemplative, capturing a fleeting moment of natural beauty.
Somehow 6,000 of you found this corner of the internet. That’s either a miracle or a clerical error.
Big thanks. If something here made you feel something, share it. That’s how good stuff spreads. Organically, like moss on the north side.
Algorithms are poison. People?
Sometimes they surprise you
A photograph of a weathered sandstone statue depicting Chief Niwot, set against a backdrop of dense, shadowed forest foliage along Boulder Creek. The statue is bathed in high-contrast sunlight, highlighting the deep grooves of its carved features, muscular arms, and draped garment. Cracks in the arm and surface erosion on the robe hint at years of exposure to the elements. Behind the figure, the out-of-focus greenery creates a tunnel of leaves and branches, drawing visual attention to the statue’s stern, contemplative expression as it leans slightly forward, hand extended toward the viewer.
They say Chief Niwot’s curse still clings to this place: once you fall in love with the beauty of the Boulder Valley, you’re doomed to see it destroyed by those who come after.
The statue is a reminder to try to live in paradise without destroying it.
Maybe less curse, more prophecy.
#boulder
I got some incredible slow-motion video of the dewlap flopping around. Maybe I should post that up later.
Yesterday wasn’t a good day for photos. Everything felt off.
Exposure, timing, energy, flat light.
No awards coming from this set. But I did get to hang with a moose 20 feet away. Sometimes the photo is just an excuse to be there.
Which is your favorite?
#MooseSighting #photography
the water levels usually look REALLY low once you get in to winter and then fills up pretty nicely as the snowpack melts. It was significantly higher today than it was a month ago.
