Category: photo
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local wildlife
its wee hands …! squee! Beavers are usually quite wary of me down at Bluffer’s Park, but I was about three metres away from this one and I didn’t seem to be interrupting.
A beaver in Bluffer’s Park gathers an unhurried snack of tasty green fronds The original video is nearly half a gigabyte. I don’t really want to use YouTube, so you’re getting it at 360p, courtesy of ffmpeg and lots of swearing.
I don’t want to turn this post into a rant about ffmpeg and its very special options, so here, for posterity, are the command lines I used to generate this from a Pixel 8 phone video:
ffmpeg -i PXL_20250807_103015312.mp4 -c:v libvpx-vp9 -b:v 0 -crf 32 -pass 1 -an -f null /dev/null
ffmpeg -i PXL_20250807_103015312.mp4 -c:v libvpx-vp9 -b:v 0 -crf 42 -pass 2 -r 30 -vf "scale=trunc(iw/6)*2:trunc(ih/6)*2" -c:a libopus -filter:a "volume=1.5" browsing_beaver-smaller.webm -
it’s white sucker time!
White suckers were running the weir on Highland Creek in Morningside Park on their way upstream to spawn.
lookit that little sucker go! white suckers say hello I’ve uploaded the first video to Wikimedia Commons for anyone to use: File:Catostomus commersonii runs the Highland Creek Weir.webm – Wikimedia Commons
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Raccoon kit dojo
We were visited by four small raccoons this morning, who decided to practice their judo moves on the back deck.
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Neep Lantern 2021
My neep lantern for Halloween 2021 What you can’t see is the smell of Halloween: the hum of charred turnip from the candle inside.
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I think I remember this music video
“Next time,” said Eunice, “let’s try not taking all of the drugs at once, shall we?” -
Directing, 2003-08-14 Toronto
