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beSpacific

On April 1 staff of CDC's Childhood #Lead #Poisoning Prevention Program was terminated as part of agency's reduction in force. The staff included #epidemiologists, #statisticians, and advisors who specialized in lead exposures and responses. The cuts were immediately consequential to health officials in #Milwaukee, who are currently dealing with a lead #exposure crisis in #publicschools Six schools have had to close, displacing 1,800 students. arstechnica.com/health/2025/05 #publichealth #healthcare

Ars Technica · CDC can no longer help prevent lead poisoning in children, state officials sayBy Beth Mole
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getmisch

Tariff time! Prices were getting higher, no inventory at B&H, so I snagged 160 exposures to get deals (& yes, I gave B#z0s another 18 cents). The squares work out to $1.14 each & the minis only $0.84! My camera takes either format, but I have to find the other camera back. Will keep the film in the fridge.
#inflation #tariffs #Chinese #imports #shipping #instant #camera #box #film #photography #flash #timer #selfie #double #exposure #square #format #mini #Instax #Fuji #tripod #say #cheese

Boxes and boxes of Fuji instant film. Square and mini. A free lens wipe was included.
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/ˈsnæp.ʃɒt/

Lens-Artists Challenge #347: Break The Rules!

Due to the inclement weather that has been plaguing Portugal for what seems like forever, I wasn’t able to take part in last week’s ‘Cinematic’ Challenge. (Not yet, that is. I will submit an entry once we get to the location that I had in mind.) This week, though, I was determined to take part, no matter what. It’s Ritva’s turn to host the Challenge, and her theme is ‘Breaking The Rules‘. Well, how could I possibly resist that? ‘We work so hard to learn the photography rules,’ says Ritva, ‘but now it is time to BREAK them!!’ Then Ritva raises a salient point, ‘The problem is, that in order to break a rule, you must know that there is a rule in the first place!’

https://flic.kr/p/2r36f4i

And that’s actually what stymied me. I’ve been making photographs for a long time. Perfectly exposed (mostly), well focused, and (most of the time, I hope) nicely composed, that I’ve never really thought about the rules of photography that I was taught back in the day. It’s only in the past few years, with my renewed interest in film photography, that I’ve consciously tried to make something out of the ordinary with both film and digital media: Intentional Camera Movement (ICM), light leaks, redscaling film, that sort of thing. But even then, I still kind of follow the rules. 

https://flic.kr/p/2r35RHH

Looking at these ICM images, for example. Even though the subject is blurred, I’ve still unconsciously tried to place the boundary between the grass and the trees about one-third up from the bottom of the frame. Dammit! So my idea this week was to take a ‘walk around the block’ and make some ICM images using a Canon PowerShot G12 digital camera fitted with an Urth ND64 (6-stop) neutral density filter.

I’m not really sure if these are ‘rule breakers’, because I’m not really sure what the rules are any more. But I hope that you will like them. Themes for the Lens-Artists Challenge are posted each Saturday at 12:00 noon EST (which is 4pm, GMT) and anyone who wants to take part can post their images during the week. If you want to know more about the Challenge, details can be found here, and entries can be found on the WordPress reader using the tag ‘Lens-Artists’.

If you are on Mastodon, you can now follow this blog directly. Just go to Mastodon and follow the ‘Snapshot’ WordPress account at @keithdevereux.wordpress.com. All new posts will be automatically updated to your timeline.

Intentional Camera Movement in pine woodland.
#Artistic#Blur#Challenge
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Futurist Jim Carroll

"A downturn reveals who was merely surviving and who was preparing to thrive" - Futurist Jim Carroll

What happens when you don’t do the things you should be doing when times are good? Those things you didn't do stick out like a sore thumb when times are bad!

Let’s be blunt: recessions expose the cracks that were already there.
And if we’ve spent the last 19 posts building a blueprint for resilience, innovation, momentum, and opportunity — it’s time to talk about the other side of the coin. How recessions make things go wrong, fast, for those who haven't done a great job of aligning to a changing world.

Because not everyone makes it through.

Some organizations stall out. Others collapse entirely. And the reason isn’t usually a lack of potential. It’s paralysis. A lack of organizational agility. A culture that doesn't support fast collaboration. Weakness in the product or service line. Or any other number of systemic, endemic failures that would have been leading the organization towards failure even during the best of times.

In the worst of times, all those weaknesses now becoming glaring, exposed to the harsh light of reality.

Downturns don’t just challenge your organization - they reveal it. They surface complacency. They magnify weak leadership. They stretch brittle cultures. They spotlight outdated assumptions and aging strategies. And most dangerously? They reward indecision with irrelevance!

A recession isn’t a reason to shrink.

It’s a reason to rethink.

And if you want to be ready for what comes next — you’ve got to move while others pause.

#Exposure #Resilience #Failure #Weakness #Preparation #Innovation #Leadership #Downfall #Culture #Opportunity

Original post: jimcarroll.com/2025/05/decodin

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Ellis
Una macchina! (fotografica) // I finally decided to buy a camera. So far I've only taken photos with my cell phone. I'll have to study it and learn, I don't know if I'll ever be able to take photos as I'd like, but I'll take my time, and I'll try 😊
In the meantime, this is a shot where I did some experiments, it was fun.

1/125 F 1.8 ISO I don't remember 😁🤭

#colors #colorphotography #colours #colourphotography #canon #camera #photography #learning #settings #exposure #light
#light
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AI6YR Ben

Ah, missed it... Michigan now on the measles board.

Michigan Health & Human Services:

March 14, 2025

OAKLAND, Mich. – The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) and Oakland County Health Division have confirmed an adult case of measles in Oakland County. This is the first confirmed case of measles in Michigan this year and the first case since July 2024.

The infected adult had recent overseas travel and their vaccination status is unknown.

michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside-mdhh

#michigan#measles#infection
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