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Peter @levitime.com · 08/10/2026

Amazing what they can figure out!

Peter @levitime.com · 15/08/2026

I captured the total eclipse from at Épila, Spain. A carpark is as moving a place to view this surreal sight as anywhere else, all you need is to experience it with the one(s) you love #eclipse #photography

My view of the total solar eclipse as viewed from a carpark in the scrub/desert around Épila, Spain. The photograph shows totality in wide angle, as well as the partial eclipse phases before and immediately after totality

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Peter @levitime.com · 10/06/2026

Fairly happy with my progress on building an open source driver for my id card printer. Vendor output on top, my driver on the bottom (based on reverse engineering from USB packet captures; does still rely on client having vendor LUT files available for thermal/dye props)

Photograph of two printed id cards. The cards show the same test pattern with colour blocks, black blocks, black-to-white grey scale strip, and thin lines. The output is nearly identical, with some breaks in thin lines on the bottom card (and lower density on the greyscale strip)

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Peter @levitime.com · 06/06/2026

Because being a grown-up means you *can* make yourself a key lime pie for breakfast

Photo of a slice of key lime pie, topped with tangy cream-cheese whipped cream

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Peter @levitime.com · 12/05/2026

Slightly #gender, slightly #horror work in progress animation on the theme of gender transition, shedding a misassigned skin in a literal way... next step is to work on more natural mesh morphing, and trying to grow and style hair. #blender #render #transrightsarehumanrights

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Peter @levitime.com · 01/05/2026

Absolutely stole @wesleytreat.com bender-as-propane idea and made a little scene from it with Blender #futurama #blender #bender

A CG rendered scene in a mechanic's workshop. A man with glasses bends down to adjust a propane cylinder that has been modified to look like Bender from Futurama

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Peter @levitime.com · 18/04/2026

Spent the day learning blender to create environments for a little adventure game I made... so thankful for people who put assets up as CC-BY! I do wish I could do pixel art...

Adventure game scene rendering, outside a club "The Watering Hole"

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Peter @levitime.com · 16/02/2026

If you're in corporate communications in 2026 and you think leading people up the garden path like this softens things rather than a direct non-time-wasting "We're increasing your prices" then you need to change career #bt

An e-mail from BT: "we're committed to giving you the best service, one you can count on every day, because you're at the heart of everything we do.
For generations we've been connecting the UK, and now we're upgrading our network with the rollout of Full Fibre to bring faster broadband to millions of homes nationwide.
All year round we invest in teams of engineers, cyber security specialists and technical experts across the country, working to keep your network strong and secure, giving you confidence in your connection.
To continue giving you the connection and reliability you expect from us, we need to make price changes.
From 31 March 2026, your prices will change in line with your terms and conditions. You'll find all the details in the table below."

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Peter @levitime.com · 13/02/2026

I've figured out the most important piece of astrophotography equipment I was lacking: a portable coffee machine. 3 flat whites deep. Easy targets only tonight, it's been almost a year since I had a whole night free to stargaze #coffee #m42 #orion #astrophotography

Astrophotograph of the Greater Orion Nebula

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Peter @levitime.com · 22/12/2025

@giswqs.bsky.social I watched your recent video about SAM3 and samgeo - do you have any thoughts on approach for survey maps? I'm trying to extract map data from old imagery of NYC and have been using SAM2 and is ok, I can't get anything from SAM3; is data just too noisy and abstract?

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Peter @levitime.com · 30/11/2025

Have had a fun evening recreating early 1900s newspaper advertisements for a project I'm helping with

A newspaper advertisement. On the left is a bottle of "Black and White" scotch whisky. The text of the advert reads:
Black & White
"is all right"

Scotch Whisky Distillers
James Buchanan & Co., Ltd
29 Broadway, New York
--
ARTHUR J. BILLIN, U.S. Manager

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Peter @levitime.com · 28/09/2025

Kelpies reflection (rotated) #photography

Photograph of reflection of the kelpies in a pool of lightly disturbed water, rotated as if to show a view from below the water

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Peter @levitime.com · 22/09/2025

"As a genetically engineered killing machine, Adidas is the only brand I trust to support me and my arches. Use code LV426 at checkout for an exclusive discount.”

Screenshot of an Alien Earth behind-the-scenes feature showing the Alien wearing adidas on set

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Peter @levitime.com · 31/08/2025

I got that dog in me

A bichon lies on her back, asleep with her eyes partially open. Her ears are lying back, and her mouth is slightly open, giving her a goofy expression

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Peter @levitime.com · 31/07/2025

Our newly-adopted dog has started behaving like we're staying

A bichon stands very close to the camera, mouth open panting in excitement

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Peter @levitime.com · 02/07/2025

I never thought it would happen to me, but Elphie has performed a dog loaf. Clearly she has been learning from our cats! #catloaf #dogloaf

A bichon sitting in a sunbeam under an office chair, performing a perfect cat loaf

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Peter @levitime.com · 23/05/2025

I've been doing some historical data analysis, and I think the first time the 'sun never set' over the british empire was in 1685 with the colonisation of bengkulu by the East India Company (when it was still called the English Empire). Didn't factor in eclipses though... #history #maps

A map showing the English Empire as it stood just prior to the 1685 colonisation of Bengkulu in South-Western Indonesia by the East India Company. There is a day/night terminator line, showing the empire was still able to be in total darkness at this point.

A map showing the English Empire as it stood just after the 1685 colonisation of Bengkulu in South-Western Indonesia by the East India Company. There is a day/night terminator line, showing that the empire spanned sufficiently broadly east/west such that there was no date/time (until the 2025 surrender of the Chagos Islands) where the sun was not shining upon at least one part of the Empire.

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Peter @levitime.com · 14/05/2025

In love with this photo project theface.com/society/ukra...

Viktor 38. Victor, his service spanning a decade, sees this war as being about more than territory. “This is probably the first war where so many openly LGBT+ soldiers are fighting on the frontline,” he says. “That in itself is a sign: we’re fighting not just for borders, but for values. We’re like a diamond coating on a blade – the first to hit this threat, cutting through metal.

“We’re on the boundary between a world of values and an anti-world,” he continues. “Russia and its allies – North Korea and Iran – are an empire trying to destroy the very concept of human values, crystallising into a sinister force, anti-matter, devoid of ethics.”

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Peter @levitime.com · 13/04/2025

The neo-classical architecture of the Ulster Museum #rolleiflex #mediumformat #photography #architecture #filmphotography #ilfordhp5 Ulster Museum, Northern Ireland

Ionic columns flank a nautical themed element that fronts a window in this view upwards

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Peter @levitime.com · 01/04/2025

Tangled in telegraph lines. Colour film is an interesting challenge as a colour-blind photographer, especially so to edit. #porta400 #rolleiflex #mediumformat

Looking up to the sky at a telegraph pole which stands in the centre of the shot, radiating wires out to every corner. A piece of fabric has become entangled in the wires at the centre

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Peter @levitime.com · 22/03/2025

In time-honoured tradition, I am making my first photographic enlargements sitting on my bathroom floor.

Projected image of a negative, projected onto an old, somewhat dirty, 1970s easel. The image is a close-up of the head of a tacked up irish sport horse

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Peter @levitime.com · 16/03/2025

A rising tide covers the WW2 anti-landing defenses on Newcastle Beach, Co. Down #rolleiflex #mediumformat

WW2 Anti-Landing defenses being covered by the incoming tide. on Newcastle Beach, Northern Ireland. Medium Format film image shot on Ilford HP5+

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Peter @levitime.com · 16/03/2025

Shot on film - firing range warning sign. 35mm shot on Ilford HP5+

Warning sign on a beach, with its reflection in a pool of seawater as the tide goes out

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Peter @levitime.com · 16/03/2025

Took some 720nm-filtered infrared nature photographs yesterday, so much light

A tree shot in infrared light, the leaves are whisps of white, and merge in with a background cloud

An infrared shot of a thicket amid a still lake

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Peter @levitime.com · 07/03/2025

*slaps turing machine* this bad boy can fit so many states. And transitions? Fuggedaboutit!

Screenshot of a Chris Martens mastodon post showing a Google Search ad for "Shop Finite state machines - Low prices Finite state machines" on amazon

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Peter @levitime.com · 06/03/2025

My first medium format shot was a double exposure. Is it intentional art? Is it screwing up and forgetting that there's no double exposure protection on 73 year old cameras? Who can tell!

A double exposure shot. Two cats sit together, Enya and Ori. Ori's double exposure looks like her face is coming out of her butt

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Peter @levitime.com · 05/03/2025

Ringing in galaxy season with a short shot at Bode's Galaxy

A photograph of M81 (Bode's Galaxy) amid a field of stars. Beside it is M82, the Cigar Galaxy

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Peter @levitime.com · 25/02/2025

Cool cool Evri, very cool. Now we play the game of "Are your systems broken and not synced up, or is that parcel actually arriving after all?". My bet is on: later today I'll get an e-mail telling me that they tried to deliver it (when they didn't) and that they're returning it to the sender.

Timeline from an incompetent parcel delivery company's tracking page. The timeline reads:

09:13 - Your parcel is on its way to you today
09:48 - Your local courier will deliver your parcel between 11:30 and 13:30 today
10:19 - We're sorry, we're not able to deliver your parcel today, but we will deliver it on the next working day.
12:18 - Your local courier will deliver your parcel between 12:00 and 14:00 today

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Peter @levitime.com · 24/02/2025

Getting slightly better results shooting Ilford HP5+ vs Fomapan 400, although I still have a lot to learn both about how to shoot film & how to scan+process the results

High contrast black and white photo of a mule in a muddy field on a sunny day

Closely cropped photo of an irish sport horse's face wearing a bridle

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Peter @levitime.com · 21/02/2025

The cloud cover has been relentless here, but I did manage to get some time on the Rosette Nebula, and I'm fairly pleased with it

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Peter @levitime.com · 23/01/2025

The best and most expressive detective, Miss Marple played by Margaret Rutherford

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Peter @levitime.com · 10/01/2025

If it looked something like this then your dream was connected to my astro camera!

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Peter @levitime.com · 03/01/2025

Clouds cleared up and the night was still, so I got some time on the Horse Head nebula with my Seestar, which I'm pretty pleased with. Also managed to get a middling shot of Andromeda, but with my mirrorless camera which was cool

The Horse Head Nebula (IC 434) with the Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) above it

A fairly noisy photo of the Andromeda Galaxy

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Peter @levitime.com · 03/12/2024

Wonderfully clear skies here last night so spent the whole night imaging on the Seestar S50. First time I've seen the Orion Nebula, it's breathtaking!

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Peter @levitime.com · 30/11/2024

I feel like I have failed to sell Wicked to my friends, nobody is going to see it, and they don't realise it's amazing. Do I just have 'oops all musical haters' friends?

Wicked promo shot of G(a)linda and Elphaba reaching out for one another with the yellow brick road and emerald city in the background

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Peter @levitime.com · 21/11/2024

Really excited by how quickly the Seestar S50 can get capturing images - weather has been near-total clouds here for the last month but in the 20-30 minute breaks in the cloud there's been enough time to get it out & get pictures taken. Now I just need to get better with PixInsight...

A small part of the Andromeda galaxy, 6 minutes of stacking

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