Fall, one of my favourite times of the year, was just two months ago, but with the cold and damp outside, it feels much longer.…
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Tuesday A friend shared a link to an article by Christopher Brennan the growing trend of "data poisoning", a type of misinformation campaign that researcher Priyanka Ranade specifically targets information security professionals. “I used to work in a cyber security operations center, and the analysts do use a lot of the cyber threat intelligence that’s out there on a daily basis,” Ranade said. “I was reading Krebs on Security one day and I thought ‘How does he get all this…
Trees in the backyard.…
You will occasionally see photographs posted here which were captured on Canon gear. Two years ago just after my Nikon broke but before I had replaced it with my Fuji, my wife's best friend, Ami, loaned me her father's Canon EOS 5D Mark III and Canon EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM. Her father, Kunj Trivedi, a retired businessman and respected nature photographer who spends most of his days between Madagascar and India, had purchased a new camera and had gifted…
When I saw this bird with a crest of feathers sitting in the branches of our Sassafras tree, I thought to myself, "that looks like a cardinal, but it's not red". I popped the photo over to the Merlin BirdID app on my iPhone for identification. I had assumed that male and female Northern Cardinal's were red. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that that bird in my photography is a female Northern Cardinal. I had been trying to photograph…