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Jim Hughes

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Posted on January 23, 2024March 9, 2025

AI and Christopher Columbus

If you’re a photographer, or someone who likes photography, you know we’re in the middle of a firestorm called “generative AI”. The ethical, legal and financial implications of software-generated imagery are the subjects of hot-burning controversy online, in corporate boardrooms and in the courts.

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Posted on April 5, 2023March 21, 2025

Elgin Standard Time

For 100 years, half of the pocket watches in the United States were made in Elgin, Illinois. I have one.

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Posted on February 8, 2023March 22, 2025

Bricks

Old bricks are, literally, pieces of history. They’re time made visible.

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Posted on September 27, 2022March 27, 2025

A Darker Minneapolis

Minneapolis is a troubled city these days; some dark clouds hang over it.

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Posted on June 19, 2022September 10, 2022

Cycling Nowhere

I’ve been cycling all my life. It takes on different meanings as you get older – or get locked down by a virus. When that happened, I started roaming the fringes, the odd corners, of Minneapolis.

19th Century officer’s houses – Fort Snelling, MN
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All Posts

  • Minneapolis and the Mississippi
  • Generative AI: Let’s Pull Back The Curtain
  • Out on the 3rd Avenue Bridge
  • AI and Christopher Columbus
  • Elgin Standard Time
  • Water Meets Ice
  • Bricks
  • Woodpecker Portrait Session
  • The Northern Flicker
  • The Downy Woodpecker
  • Crazy Ice On The Creek
  • Photography: What’s Left?
  • A Highway At Night
  • A Darker Minneapolis
  • Hover Flies: Pollinators In Disguise
  • On The Franklin Avenue Bridge
  • Stay Cool In The Skyways
  • In The Wind
  • The Rusty Patched bumble bee
  • A Hot Day Downtown
  • The Sleeping Queens
  • Dragonflies and Damselflies
  • Cycling Nowhere
  • How Big Is That Fish Eye, Really?
  • White Balance For Dummies – By A Dummy
  • Red-wings
  • Ride The Rails
  • The Great Blue Herons Are Back
  • The Cyclist
  • Street and Sky
  • Young Owls
  • Cardinals
  • The Perfect POD
  • Capture One and Lightroom: why I don’t like catalogs
  • SmugMug SEO and Google – An Epitaph
  • Birds In Winter
  • The Pergear 10mm Pancake Fisheye Lens
  • SmugMug: Where Photography Goes To Hide
  • Tuning Dials and Channel Knobs: Retro Tech
  • Why Does Duotoning Work?
  • ICC printer profiles: how does that work, exactly?
  • As Good As A Phone…?
  • Make Even More
  • An old Ford rusts peacefully in a farmer's field.A Ford’s Journey
  • Hummingbird Photography for Dummies
  • Smugmug and Google: The Taste of Failure
  • Protect your photos with an AIR GAP
  • Google Indexing: My Balloon Loses Air
  • Windows 10 Ransomware protection
  • Nicollet Island Railroad Bridge

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