The background for these posts can be found in THIS post.

In brief, these posts serve to introduce new readers — and reintroduce regular readers — to photos from the early days of this blog and, occasionally, to photos from days before this blog came into existence.

Today, I continue with 85 photos from June and July, 2018. The 85 photos were originally shared in THESE and THIS posts. At the time, we were still in Hawaiʻi and I was using the Note 8. All of the photos from this gallery were snapped with the Note 8.

Anyway, on to the photos.

“Is that a real turtle?”

The background for these posts can be found in THIS post.

In brief, these posts serve to introduce new readers — and reintroduce regular readers — to photos from the early days of this blog and, occasionally, to photos from days before this blog came into existence.

Today, I offer another relatively recent gallery — from May, 2018—with 81 photos originally shared in THESE posts. At the time, we were still in Hawaiʻi and I was using the Note 8. All of the photos from this gallery were snapped with the Note 8.

Anyway, on to the gallery of 81 photos.

“Is that a panorama?”

The background for these posts can be found in THIS post.

In brief, these posts serve to introduce new readers — and reintroduce regular readers — to photos from the early days of this blog and, occasionally, to photos from days before this blog came into existence.

Today, I offer a relatively recent gallery with 258 photos originally shared in THESE posts. That’s right, it’s the Seven Deadly Sins Challenge. For them who put the challenge out of their minds and them who never heard of it, three writers — Perry, Gary, and I — committed to writing stories for each of the deadly sins.

Arguably, it was one of our least popular writing challenges (although the jury is still out for our current challenge).

What made it so — in my opinion — was the subject matter. I wasn’t very motivated by it, and as challenges go, it’s one I struggled with the most (although the jury is still out for our current challenge).

But, as an upshot, I had lots of reminders trying to get people to vote, hence the many photos. It breaks down to more than 35 photos per sin.

Anyway, on to the gallery of 258 photos.

“Is that the best of the photos?”

The background for these posts can be found in THIS post.

In brief, these posts serve to introduce new readers — and reintroduce regular readers — to photos from the early days of this blog and, occasionally, to photos from days before this blog came into existence.

Today, I offer a gallery with 365 photos originally shared in THESE posts. In January 2014 I started a series entitled Untitled Posts. You can read more about the series in the Untitled Post — Epilogue post which summarizes the effort, which was an experiment of sorts. I wanted to see if daily posts would increase my readership, and I wanted to see if short posts with just photos would increase my readership.

From it, I learned that no matter what I tried, the number of actual visitors remained fairly constant at about 25 per day. Occasionally it would jump to 30, or drop to 20, and that’s still the case eight years later despite my subscriber numbers having more than tripled since then.

I learned pictures with no words got me about the same amount of engagement (comments) as some of my more elaborate and descriptive posts.

Basically, it confirmed that no matter what I did, I wasn’t going to increase readership, and that’s fine.

There are many sites that purport to advise bloggers on how to significantly increase traffic, but I don’t read their advice because it boils down to being lucky and or striking the public’s fickle interest. Only a few things reliably affect readership: porn, religion, and politics. Really, it’s only porn since religion and politics are basically different manifestations of porn.

Anyway, on to the gallery of 365 photos.

“Why 365?”

The background for these posts can be found in THIS post.

These posts serve to introduce new readers — and reintroduce regular readers — to photos from the early days of this blog and, occasionally, to photos from days before this blog came into existence.

Today, I offer a gallery with 123 photos.

I normally link posts originally associated with the gallery and/or photos in the gallery, but in this case, I give you THIS link, and if you choose to follow it, you’ll get a lot of posts that begin with NNWM No. 3, and half of them are protected. Those are all the updates I did for my third NaNoWriMo effort; the book that eventually got titled Gin’s War. The protected posts are the actual novel, and they are protected to preserve the FNASR. Normally, I tell readers to email me if interested in reading the novel and ask for the password. Sadly, that ship has sailed.

It would take some convincing to have me hand the password out because it’s been seven years that I’ve been offering (the last offer as late as last year) and no one’s ever asked.

Anyway, on to the photos . . .

Yes, Colorado offers Canine Driver’s Ed. Don’t worry, few of them pass.

The background for these posts can be found in THIS post.

These posts serve to introduce new readers — and reintroduce regular readers — to photos from the early days of this blog and, occasionally, to photos from days before this blog came into existence.

Today, I offer two smallish galleries, one with 26 photos and one with 22 . . . and one small gallery with only 12 photos. It’s all about leaves . . . and dead leaves. And some other dead stuff. Now, I know we’re getting into Spring soon, so these seem ill-timed . . . unless you’re at the bottom of the world, where everything is backward and upsidedown.

The three posts associated with the galleries are HERE, HERE, and HERE. You’re welcome to click on the links and read how much cleverer I was nine years ago.

Meanwhile, let’s get to the photos . . .

Those aspens were in my yard at our Monument, Colorado, house. What people don’t know about Aspens is their leaves try to mimic extinct dinosaurs (as opposed to living ones).

The background for these posts can be found in THIS post.

These posts serve to introduce new readers — and reintroduce regular readers — to photos from the early days of this blog and, occasionally, to photos from days before this blog came into existence.

I’m writing this a few weeks before the actual publication date . . . and dreading just how much worse-off the world might be by the time this goes live. We’re entering the third year of nothing but one shit-fest after another. At some point, all this shit will start to drag on people.

But, I could be an optimist and assume nuclear war has been averted, tensions have eased, and humanity is collaborating to solve all the pressing issues confront it and endangering the happiness and well-being of so many people . . . sigh . . . if only.

Today’s gallery of 142 photos is populated by old photos that have been re-processed using modern editing tools. Tools that were not available when these photos were first published. Tools like Sharpen AI, DeNoise AI, Luminar AI, DxO PureRaw, and other programs aimed at providing a mediocre photographer with the means of making his photos passable.

There is no one post relating to these photos because they were used in reminder posts during the Alphabet Challenge voting periods. If you’ve not read the Alphabet Challenge short stories but are intrigued by the mere mention of them, HERE is the link to all the stories.

Meanwhile, let’s get to the photos . . .

That particular photo was shot through heavy glass, and, while I liked the photo, I was never happy with the quality. Guess what? The above version meets with my approval. I believe I used PureRaw and then a combination of Sharpen AI and Lightroom to get what I consider a pretty clean photo. Clean if one ignores the rude gesture.

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