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Vis Major @vismga.com · 12/04/2026

Some #glitchart flowers from last year. Original image from a trip to the local botanical garden.

Shallow depth of field image of red and white flowers surrounded by leaves on a bush. The colors are spread and rotated by an algorithm based on the original pixel color so the vague shape of flowers and leaves are still there, but the white flowers are now a colorful almost neon abstract rainbow, the red flowers were mostly fuzzy in the original image and are still fuzzy and mostly still red, and the leaves have an almost oil slick appearance with vague edges. Describing glitch art for alt text is difficult sorry.

A cropped version of the original image. Shallow depth of field image of bunches of white flowers surrounded by leaves with red flowers out of focus in the foreground to the bottom left and top right. Rhododendrons I believe.

Vis Major @vismga.com · 05/07/2025

Fun fact when I initially started working on this project my first concept was a music visualizer. Now 10+ years later I'm finally working on the audio reactivity part. Audio here from the Risk of Rain 2 soundtrack by Chris Christodoulou. Some flashing lights warning. #glitchart

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 24/06/2025

Work was exhausting this week and I didn't want to go outside today so I did more work on my app instead. Tweaking shaders, adding more options. #glitchart

A version of the quoted photo run through a glitch filter.
The mountain is still recognizable from the shape of it, but it's made up of streaky horizontal lines of varying colors now.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 15/06/2025

Split "cubic" controls into x and y axis so they can be controlled separately.

The flowers have been sliced vertically and groups of pixels are moved left and right.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 15/06/2025

I added a .webp compression option to the data corruption mode. #glitchart

The top bit of flowers is still recognizable, but everthing else is a mess of rectangles in various colors.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 15/06/2025

Been a while since I've updated this. vismga.com/VisGlitch/ #glitchart Changelog in thread v I've added an edge detect mode.

Edge detect shader makes neon flowers and surroundings.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 13/06/2025

I guess I'm collecting photos of other birds attacking bald eagles now. Here's an osprey I saw yesterday. #photography #birds

An osprey dives at a bald eagle perched at the top of a fir tree. The osprey has its talons reaching out in front, and the eagle has its wings spread and beak open.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 12/06/2025

I can barely tell anything beyond the shape and color here. Would you say it looked more like an insect eating beak than a seed eater? Any size estimate?

a blown up, very low fidelity image of the section of the above image with the bird in it.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 11/06/2025

Sometimes something happens and you just have to hope your camera settings are good enough where they're already at. I had so little time to react to this, and the light and background changed as they flew across the lake. Crazy way to see a peregrine falcon for the first time. #photography #birds

Peregrine falcon dive bombing a bald eagle. The bald eagle is carrying a bundle of sticks and looking up at the falcon with its beak open.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 09/06/2025

A touch of color at sunrise on a morning I wasn't already at work by this time of day. #photography #landscape

A lake view just before sunrise. The foreground is dark with grasses, irises, and a lake with lots of water plants in the foreground, a tree lined skyline, and wispy clouds with a touch of red from the sunrise.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 27/05/2025

There's some very low tides in the Salish Sea this week. Here's a gull doing some fishing in a tide pool. This move they do really amuses me. #birds #pnw

The same gull at the peak of its leap. Its wings are spread, head and body are tilted down, and its feet are fully out of the water.

The gull with its head in the water. Wings still spread, whole body tilted nearly vertically, feet tucked, and wings still spread.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 25/05/2025

I keep thinking about spooky mode so here's a bald eagle. #birds

Bald eagle sitting in a douglas fir tree with its head cocked, beak open, and nictitating membrane closed.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 21/05/2025

One of my favorite birds is back flocking in the area. I love cedar waxwings. #birds #photography

A cedar waxwing sitting on a forked dead branch with greenery in the foreground and background.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 14/05/2025

Not usually one to spend a lot of time taking pictures of flowers, but I sure saw a lot of flowers yesterday. I think they're rhododendrons? Not a plant expert by any stretch. #photography #flowers

A bunch of light pink flowers surrounded by leaves with more out of focus flowers and other leaves in the foreground and background.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 11/05/2025

Just before the chase began. This angle shows just how big of a prize that fish was. Learning more about editing. #photography #wildlifephotography #birds

Female common merganser swims while holding a fish the size of her head in her beak.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 03/05/2025

Messing around with recording video a bit. Here's a marsh wren singing on a branch. (featuring a background of many other birds). I love the range of sounds they make. #birds

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 29/04/2025

A female common merganser protects her catch. It's amazing how fast they can swim! #photography #birds

A female common merganser with a fish in her mouth swims rapidly away from a male chasing her. Both are kicking up splashes of water behind them.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 28/04/2025

Glitch bloom dawn. Got my development stuff transferred to a computer with a fully working keyboard so maybe I'll get back to updating my image manipulation program again. #glitchart

A photo of flowers on a tree with color channels shifted in different directions. Quite an abstract piece.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 26/04/2025

The crow even made contact several times! #birds

The crow has swooped down and made contact with the bald eagle's head.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 26/04/2025

I watched this crow pester the bald eagle for nearly half an hour. Eventually it was successful in driving the eagle away. Or possibly the eagle decided it had somewhere else to be. #photography #birds

A bald eagle lower right, perched in a Douglas fir tree, pestered by a crow flying less than a wingspan above and to the left.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 23/04/2025

I finally got some clear, close, and in focus shots of marsh wrens this week after trying for a couple of weeks. Their song is one of the first I've learned to be able to identify because of its uniqueness. I feel like I need birdsong flashcards. #photography #birds

A marsh wren (a small bird with a brown top of head and back and light lower body) with its mouth wide open and singing, perched on a large brown stem of some type of grass that runs at a diagonal from lower right to top left of the image. Background grasses are mostly green.

A marsh wren (a small bird with a brown top of head and back and light lower body) with its mouth wide open and singing, perched on a stem of some type of grass that runs at a diagonal from lower right and ends in drooping leaves just above the bird. Background and foreground grasses are mostly green.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 21/04/2025

I was pleasantly surprised to see how the out of focus areas of this image of a kingfisher turned out. I'm almost more interested in the background than the subject here. #photography

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 17/04/2025

Caught this marsh wren collecting cattail fluff yesterday morning. The quest for a good clear picture of one of these little birds continues, but I really like this shot. #birds #photography

A small bird flies away from a fluffy cattail with a bundle of fluff in it's beak. Bits of cattail fluff are float in the air around the cattail.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 09/04/2025

Waterbirds make me wish for a newer camera with a flippy screen. I laid down on the shore of the pond so I could see these ring necked ducks through my viewfinder at their eye level. Luckily there was a dry patch. #birds #photography

A male and female ring necked duck swim in a pond in front of a tangle of brown reeds.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 07/04/2025

This sparrow's pose reminds me of Girl with a Pearl Earring. Or it could just be sassy. #photography #birds

A song sparrow framed by branches looks back to the left slightly over its shoulder.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 25/03/2025

I have an example of this button's effect on a chickadee from last week. I liked the photo anyway.

A chestnut backed chickadee's feet grasp a branch as its body leaves frame downwards.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 18/03/2025

It was a battle of patience to catch this great blue heron doing something active. I was hungry and my last camera battery was on one blinking bar. #photography #birds

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 18/03/2025

Playing with the tilt-shift lens more. There's really a ton of chromatic aberration in this lens, maybe because it's quite an old design, but I enjoy the results anyway. Definitely have one of the updated wider angle tilt shifts on my wish list. #photography

Photograph of a rusty antique plow under white tree blossoms.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 11/03/2025

Playing with a tilt shift lens in the woods. This feels more like a proof of concept shot than a final shot I'm really happy with, but it's an interesting effect. I'll be looking for variations on this idea. Playing with the plane of focus like this is fun but really not easy. #photography

Tilt shift woodland photograph. There's one green leaf in focus in the foreground at the top of the image, and some tree trunks in the midground are in focus.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 08/03/2025

I have been hesitant to post this one because of the lack of obvious subject in this photo, but I enjoy the shapes created by the trees on the sides against the foreground and background. A photo of the shapes of the woods. #photography

A winter conifer woodland scene. The ground is covered in leafless plants sticking out from snow, and trees on the sides frame the foreground and more trees in the background, creating an upward and downward arrow pattern.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 05/03/2025

I had less than 5 seconds to catch this picture of a Virginia rail strutting along the edge of the water before it vanished into the glare from the sun and then I never saw it again. The first time I've seen one! #photography #birds

A Virginia rail struts along the edge of a lake where brown cattail reeds meet the water.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 07/02/2025

I tried going back to the same spot the following day, but conditions weren't nearly as good. There was more snow on the background, less snow on the subject tree, and that beautiful bit of mist on the ground was gone.

Same description as the image I've replied to. The angle of the image is slightly different, and there's less snow on the subject tree, but more on the background. A bare round little tree in a snowy field with its branches covered in snow. There is another smaller and less uniformly shaped bare tree to the right and snowy forest, mostly evergreens, in the background.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 05/02/2025

I had been meaning to look up what that tree I saw yesterday was. And there it is.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 05/02/2025

I liked this tree on my walk this morning. We don't get snow too often so it's exciting. I wish I could go back and take a couple steps left when I took this picture to get a little separation from that other bare tree in the background. Trying to learn from all the photos I take. #photography

A bare round little tree in a snowy field with its branches covered in snow. There is another smaller and less uniformly shaped bare tree to the right and snowy forest, mostly evergreens, in the background.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 31/01/2025

I'm still learning my editing tools. Have I made this better, worse, or some of both? Is there something I should have done more or less on? The tools for masking and spot adjustments in rawtherapee are extremely far from intuitive. Bit of a struggle there. #photography

Minor adjustments to the above image. Some parts brighter, some darker, and I've cloned out a distracting clear patch of snow on the hillside to the right.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 31/01/2025

This little Canada jay posed for me in front of Mount Rainier. How cooperative! It was because I was eating lunch. #photography #pnw #wildlifephotography #birds

A Canada Jay perched on top of a pine tree in front of a distant Mount Rainier.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 29/01/2025

More practice with bird photography. These little ones sure don't sit still for long. It was a very cold morning for my area so I didn't want to sit still for long either. #photography #birds #naturephotography

A ruby crowned kinglet on a leafy branch. Shallow depth of field so the background and a few leaves in the foreground are blurry.

A black capped chickadee in a thicket. Most branches are bare but some dead leaves are still on a few branches. The bird is facing away but looking to the side and is framed by twigs. Shallow depth of field so foreground and background elements are blurry.

Townsend's warbler feeding on mahonia flowers. Just the bird's head is visible between the leaves. Shallow depth of field.

A clearer shot of the Townsend's warbler on the mahonia tree.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 28/01/2025

We have liftoff? A silly one from this morning. A reflection lined up just right with this dabbling swan. #photography #bird

A flipped upside down image of a swan dabbling. A line of bright reflection on the water looks like flames from a rocket and lines up perfectly with the swan's tail.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 19/01/2025

I love moss. Every time I'm out with my camera I'm tempted to take pictures of all the mossy branches and rocks I come across. Which is nearly every branch and rock in a lot of places around here. #pnw #photography

A mossy branch that curves up from the bottom left of frame and then back down to the bottom right, and splits at the highest point into another branch that goes off the top of frame. The image has very shallow depth of focus and is backlit.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 16/01/2025

It's my weekend so I took a hike today. This trailhead is only a 30 minute drive from home? #photography

A partly snow covered mountain on a clear day. There are evergreen trees on a hill in the foreground and midground, and some branches poking in from the right edge.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 15/01/2025

What happens when you target very specific parts of a JPG format file to mess with? I've changed or replaced the quantization tables in these files. #glitchart

A glitched photo of a butterfly on a flower. All the colors are wrong. This one looks like a rainbow topographic map.

A glitched photo of some sea stacks. The colors are vaguely correct but the image is clearly divided into smaller squares and the brightness of pixels within each square is wrong.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 12/01/2025

I was drawn to this spot of light filtering through the forest near sunset on my hike yesterday.

The trunk of a cedar tree with illuminated by a soft beam of light.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 08/01/2025

Playing "find the bird" in my photos when I got home was fun. Lots of out of focus blobs.

Lots of tiny thumbnails of photographs. Some are rated.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 08/01/2025

Not the ideal conditions or lens for hummingbird pictures but they were there. Crop from a 35mm shot at extremely high ISO. #photography

Hummingbird feeding on yellow mahonia flowers framed by diagonal branches.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 27/12/2024

An interesting combination of cloud and building I saw the other day. Cropped phone photo so the quality isn't great but I thought the colors and composition were interesting enough to post anyway. #photography

A small puff of cloud rising over the side of an orange corrugated building wall against a blue sky.

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Vis Major @vismga.com · 15/12/2024

Downside of not tracking usage statistics for your website: no idea if people find it fun or useful. Upsides: not obsessing over how many visitors you have, or contributing to internet surveillance. Still working on new filters and improvements but it's been very busy and I've been outside more.

Photo abstracted into colored rectangles separated by black bars in a grid. Original photo was my cat sitting in front of my computer screens in the dark but it's unrecognizable now.

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