Notices by Bob Horowitz (bobhorowitz@sfba.social)

I had a visitor outside my window.

#photography #BirdsOfMastodon #birb

Proof that sometimes I visit naturey places.
Heron's Head Park in the winter.

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@cvvhrn Not exactly what you are looking for, Freddy, but this song is painfully on point. Ouch.

(cc'ing @czarbucks)

Hail Hail Freedonia, from Duck Soup:

https://youtu.be/x4OJGdtRx10?si=j5FoggVlSKoFumHS

#SilentSunday #Photography

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How it started...

#photography #spider

Shaking things up again, here's some oil in water.

#photography #macro

13 seconds of an Amtrak train passing through Jack London Square in Oakland. The train runs down the street in the middle of stores and restaurants... and it's very cool to stand there, a few feet from the train, as it passes by.

#photography #LongExposure

#SilentSunday #photography

Reflections on windows... taken in the folds of the Shaklee building on Market Street in downtown San Francisco.

#fensterfreitag #WindowFriday #photography

Door door door door door door.

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Playing "now you see him, now you don't" with Chris, yesterday, at Heron's Head Park.

Two shots, one with my husband, one without... overlaid in Photoshop, with selective deletion of my better half from one of the layers. I'm not entirely happy with the result... I made a classic mistake of shooting without checking my camera settings first and not freezing the exposure between shots, but for a handheld quick couple of snaps it kinda worked.

#photography

And the post you've all been waiting for. My 2024 Christmas card has just dropped.

#photography #Santacon #StreetPhotography

#SilentSunday #photography #bird

Give it up, guys. Nobody wants to talk to us.

#photography

Yes it's me, totally procrastinating doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

See alt text.

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Today is the two year anniversary of my joining Mastodon and these past two years have been swell. This is home.

For those who don't know me, I'm Bob, a retired IT guy (yes yes, I know... bad karma). To my credit, I am slightly smarter than my thermostat and a bit brighter than a 6W bulb. I love damp weather. And if I could have just one superpower, I would like the power to change red traffic lights to green.

Anyway, I like to take photos. So here is a four and a half minute exposure of the Pacifica Pier. It's monochrome and I know that because I'm a photographer.

#photography #LongExposure

#SilentSunday #photography #SFzoo

Forgive me: I didn't sleep much last night. Something has been weighing heavily on my heart and I need to share this. I can not let it rest.

Over the last 10 years, my cousin Matt has been researching our family tree. Yesterday, Matt sent an email about one of our family tree's limbs.

In the 1880s, our mutual great-grandparents emigrated from Bohemia to New York City. They left behind a very large family concentrated in a small area of what is now known as the Czech Republic.

In the 1940s, 190 of those relatives - our great grandparent's brothers, sisters, cousins, nieces, and nephews - were murdered in Auschwitz, Belzec, Buchenwald, Chelmno, Gross Rosen, Kaunas, Izbica, Lodž, Lublin, Maly Trostenets, Nisko, Opole, Piaska, Raasiku, Riga, Sobibor, Theresienstadt, Trawniki, Treblinka, Warsaw, and Zamošč.

More than a third of these 190 had photos. Matt found those photos in Holocaust.cz’s online database. This is what he sent me.

I have no words... just deep, deep sadness.

#Holocaust

#SilentSunday #photography

#SilentSunday #photography