๐ธ Photographs
๐ธ A test as much as anything to see what Gemma 4 26B did with providing ‘accessibility text’ for my photo.
This is what it came up with:
A small structure with a dark roof covered in solar panels sits nestled among a dense backdrop of lush green trees.
Not too shabby. It was that kind of phrasing I had in my mind when I took it down by the beach last week, observing how the roof of an old boathouse (Unused? Do not know.) could double up as a baby solar ‘farm’ and not be that distracting.
Farm? Ok ‘backlot’.
๐ UPDATE: 5 Minutes Later
Now I have read ๐ Manton’s post properly - point of clarification -
While the checkbox is present in the current build, the server-side work is not yet enabled for any users.
So jury remains out as to how good the local model will be. I will run a test on the same image when it is available … so marking this post ๐ง
๐ธ Some places have โStreet Artโ .. we have โBeach Artโ


The beach is no Oneroa - but makes up with proximity.


The coast is taking a toll - eventually, the fight will be lost.


Meanwhile as we ๐๏ธ seek to spend trillions in getting to Mars - we barely understand our own backyard.
๐๐ธ In a Single Year, Ocean Census Scientists Discovered More than 1,100 New Marine Species.

๐ธ Ton // @zylstra.org will know exactly what I am talking about.
Waving from the other side of the bay.
(To make sense - ๐ click here and scroll down to the last photograph. See that big building top left? That is where this was taken just under three years ago.)
๐ธ๐ The ๐ LinkedIN post remains' meh' - BUT - I did like the associated image
๐ค๐ธ
I checked to confirm that the model (ChatGPT Images 2.0) added the “WHY ARE YOU LIKE THISโ.
๐ฌ Simon Willison
๐ธ Tonight’s sunset is very different to ๐๏ธ last night’s - probably a lot to do with the cyclone hitting tomorrow.
๐ธ Got to say we do see some good sunsets from time to time - but this one …๐คฏ … never seen anything like it from this balcony.
๐ธ What Victoria Market was before it was Victoria Market - where that ๐๏ธ Indian Restaurant is.
๐ธ Aerial view of Herne Bay - exactly 100 years ago. The big white buildings in the middle? The Tram Barns. Long gone. To give you a clue of how long ago that is - a number of the buildings built after the barns were demolished are of the Art Deco persuasion and are now ‘listed’ buildings.

