I uploaded some of the photographs I took at PAX East 2018 months ago and am finally getting around to posting them here. Mostly they are photographs of cosplayers, though I got some of the the We’re All Frauds! – Succeeding Through Self-Doubt talk.
You can look through the whole album:
Election day is 13 14 days away. Early voting starts today in Massachusetts and concludes on November 2nd. Find your city or town’s early voting times.
Alternatively, if you cannot vote on November 6th, you can mail in a request for an absentee ballot to your city or town.
Whenever you vote, I ask you to vote yes on Questions 1 and 3.
Question 1 would set the maximum number of patients per registered nurse which would vary by type of unit and level of care. Our increasingly corporate-controlled health care providers are against it as it would harm their profits. Send them a message that people deserve decent healthcare and vote yes.
Question 3 prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity in places of public accommodation. The legislature already approved it, but some anti-trans bigots believe that our fellow trans citizens and residents do not deserve equality and are using lies and fear mongering to try to get their way. Don’t let them win; vote yes.
On Question 2, I have not made up my mind. Question 2 would create a citizens commission to advance an amendment to the United States Constitution to limit the influence of money in elections and establish that corporations do not have the same rights as human beings. I do not believe that corporations should have the same rights as individuals and I agree that we need to remove the corrupting influence of money in politics. Considering the influence of the rich and corporations on both major parties and on politics, it is pretty clear that once we open up any citizens process to amend the US Constitution, the rich will do their best to rewrite it in ways that enshrine their power and ideas.
I recently posted more 1/2400 modern naval warship pictures I have found on the web. Here are some of them. All of the images are at whenimaginationfails.org.
GHQ
US Independence LCS-2 by gak8346.
PRC LuyangIII/Type52D DDG by gak8346.
PRC Taizhou/Project956EM DDG by gak8346.
PRC YutingII/Type072A LST by gak8346.
US Nimitz and Ford CVN by Scott Price
Superior
US Long Beach CGN by gak8346.
US Kidd DDG by scoobjd.
US Forrestal CV & Enterprise CVN by Scott Price.
Viking Forge
PRC LuyangII/Type 052C DDG by gak8346.
PRC JiangkaiII/Type 054A FFG by gak8346.
PRC Yuzhao/Type 071 LPD by gak8346.
FRG Hamburg FFG by gak8346.
FRG Bremen FF by gak8346.
US Whidbey Island LSD by gak8346.
US Thomaston LSD by gak8346.
US Garcia FF by gak8346.
US Iwo Jima LPH by Scott Price.
US Algol T-AKR by gak8346.
US Cape Isabel T-AKR by gak8346
Shapeways
Soviet/Russian Zubr LCAC by gak8346.
PRC Type 056 Corvette by gak8346.
On October 7th, I attended the Honk! Parade with some photographers from the Boston Area Photography Group meetup.
I used my 35mm lens for the photographs during setup, but switched to the 18-105mm lens once the parade started since the telephoto lens worked better with moving subjects. I set my camera to aperture priority mode, set it to f/8 and experimented with shifting my focus point. The Tony Northrup how-to video for my camera helped in ways the camera manual does not and I recommended it to one of my fellow photographers.
Here are a few of the pictures:
Of the 304 photographs I took, I selected 12 to clean up and post to this flickr album:
