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The official Wikiloops “Member meeting 2024 report” is out

Richard, founder of Wikiloops and host of the 2024 members’ meeting just wrote his official report about the meeting which took place last month, and to which I also attended. Read, see, and hear all about it on Wikiloops. You can also watch the videos on Youtube, and/or see the photos in Diana’s gallery. Here are two of these photos:

Some of the attendees who were either late or had left the day before already had to be “‘shopped”, as they say, into the picture – you probably see it because of the very different lighting on some of the faces.

The videos have very different maximum resolutions sadly, from 480p to 1080p, and for my taste I’m a bit over-represented in the first one, the second one shows me playing a tune from a lead sheet which I hadn’t seen ever before, so excuse my uncertainty at some times (for instance on when the outro was about to start, couldn’t exactly read this). Oh, and before you ask: no; playing from lead sheet or from notation isn’t what’s representative of the “normal” jamming – but I’m always glad if people put up the chords to their songs anyway. And I love playing OliVBee‘s songs. And the ones from Moonchild of course 🙂

Anyway, enjoy, and like always, thanks for viewing and for reading.

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The Barnadise, from up the hill

Took this short before sunset on Saturday. It’s the village where the 2024 Wikiloops members’ meeting took place, and Richard’s “Barnadise” is pretty much in the middle of the photo:

Taken with my Pixel 6a phone on my way back from the last walk over the hill with the “Hubertuskapelle”.

As always, thanks for viewing.

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Yesterday: thunderstorm warning. Today: rain, mostly.

Yesterday we’ve had a warning of severe thunderstorms, so after a short stint outside, I kept the cat in:

If you have seen the football game between Denmark and Germany, yes, that was the storm they’ve warned us about. Wasn’t that severe here tho.

Today, the forecast is rain for pretty much the rest of the day, so after she’s been out for about three hours (and probably meeting some of the neighbours’ cats which I saw outside), now I’m keeping her in again. Of course Bella protests about that, even if I try to tell her about “dog weather” 😉 But the sun will shine again…

Anyway, thanks again for viewing and for reading.

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Bella from yesterday (Wednesday, 26th of June, 2024)

Yesterday I’ve found Bella in the shadow of a tree outside:

She was home faster than me 😉 This photo is straight out of my phone and on a small Mastodon server in England.

Today she was screaming – she felt or was molested by a neighbours’ Birman. So after she came in through the window in our lunch area, I kept her in.

Like always, thanks for viewing and for reading.

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Bella from today (Tuesday, 18th of June 2024)

Like always, thanks for viewing.

Edit: at Heise+ – which sadly I can’t afford – they have an article about minimalistic black & white studio photography. Well, I *do* have a camera and some studio strobes, and one of them is kind of permanently installed at our dining area – so I just sat down for a “selfie”. Camera is my Olympus E-M10 Mk2 with a Panasonic 35-100mm lens, and they were triggered by my smartphone. The studio strobe (with gridded beauty dish) was triggered by radio signal from the camera. Looks like this:

Again, and like always, thanks for viewing.