adam
First Man Photography

Sea Mist
Every now and then, the conditions stop you in your tracks.
An emotional moment from back in 2018.
https://media.firstmanphotography.com/api/v1/public/files/3fa71b051b4c447ed33deeb11ad346c0581ba7b852412febf33909d877ade219.mp4

2026-10-15 12:14:08 UTC

The anti Ai crowd, all using ChatGPT daily, is like the vegans quietly smashing two double cheeseburgers at the drive-through on the way home.

2026-10-14 21:39:56 UTC

Fleeting Moments
The landscape never stands still.
This is my first post from my custom-built video hosting software. It hosts all my films on my website, and I built in a system to share videos directly on Nostr, with each video’s SHA-256 fingerprint included in my signed post.
At least that is what this post is testing anyway. Hope it works.
https://media.firstmanphotography.com/api/v1/public/files/8bb0221277b77906acc4652c191bf5dadbac16f027b3aa780f5eaaae2cfc6ac4.mp4

2026-10-04 07:11:01 UTC

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🤣🤣
https://blossom.firstmanphotography.com/98cd4b6fa5cd6a8f41b871a4d1a8138b14fc902b46f02bc73e9a640a9d247c03.jpeg

2026-09-19 23:18:23 UTC

I’ve always hated clipping my films up into short videos because it’s just so boring to do the extra edit. Now I’ve got my agent doing it for me. 🫡
https://blossom.firstmanphotography.com/fad776297f5303247de91ba3d87b05b52e617dfdeaa0850360b44608a2dab3c4.mp4

2026-09-15 09:50:49 UTC

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https://blossom.firstmanphotography.com/1cdb2261f9e466245915289c8a009b8d3bf81666822001b555d2c1c8a8b9094b.jpeg

2026-09-02 15:09:19 UTC

My website is now fully available on Tor with an onion address - including videos!! If you love photography or want to learn, check it out - wherever you are.
LFG 💪
http://ht4eshkfmweeffqdoyjrey4i2xelntoko7p53fmabq4ry7dpji5d46ad.onion/

2026-08-31 18:28:16 UTC

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I’ve not engaged on those apps for nearly two years now. So much better.
My Ai agent posts for me on Twitter and Insta now which is a beautiful thing. Some people don’t like the fact I’m doing that, but I think it’s because it forces them to confront the fact those platforms are a nonsense waste of time.

2026-08-31 14:52:18 UTC

Fiat Autumn starts in the northern hemisphere tomorrow.
However it’s still summer for another 20+ days. Actual Autumn starts around the 23rd of September this year.
Here’s a nice summer scene. 👍
https://blossom.firstmanphotography.com/233c716a2a7c2472a364d82e39f62674fd4ae38ab49525c9d051871b5c3e8ae0.jpeg

2026-08-25 14:42:22 UTC

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Correct. We’re absolute psychopaths.
https://blossom.firstmanphotography.com/20729189f1c3e430e8782c00568d9dafc7f070a130bbaa32ebd13e2718c1cc41.jpeg
#nevent1q…u4qj

2026-08-15 15:13:01 UTC

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Facts.
#nevent1q…6zhl

2026-08-12 19:37:44 UTC

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Yup. The moon is moving away too. So we’re living through an incredible coincidence. Or we’re in a simulation. 🤷‍♂️

2026-08-12 19:16:43 UTC

Eclipse Timelapse on the back side.
https://blossom.firstmanphotography.com/32eb5e9cf18e2e57e11a3d65fc451016e067427e64123d1002d2dd916a0a4a44.mp4

2026-08-12 19:16:12 UTC

My best single frame effort. There might be better composite to come, but I’m pretty happy with this. #solareclipse
https://blossom.firstmanphotography.com/3bf2326096aafcae5bc3f1e6be2cf2aff496f8724fc46ce3efc961f08629b1c9.jpeg

2026-08-12 18:22:03 UTC

Maxed out here. So cool.
#solareclipse
https://blossom.firstmanphotography.com/105d219f67259d663a9042e18172da3ae9bf72ed1fbe8dcf663c860d5c88271b.jpeg

2026-08-12 17:46:40 UTC

Loving this. On its way to over 90% coverage in my location. #solareclipse
https://blossom.firstmanphotography.com/451a6ba10d6c9fac3a72c4e89dd14a420e6d527ce49fffea65936f805ba6a8ff.jpeg

2026-08-10 16:53:23 UTC

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As a simple pleb, at least in this space, I hoped it would remain a bottom up protocol rather than develop into a top down one - no matter how large it grew.
That hope was maybe naive, and it is fading away. I believe this is the point Holdonaut was making.

2026-08-04 22:57:56 UTC

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Not really.
Thieves are inevitable and to be expected - in line with human nature. I hope they are caught and face justice.
However, people trusted Matt & Marty et al. And that turned out to be misplaced, people feel betrayed, and have lost their life savings.
But I believe they are good people so they rightly feel guilty even though they were seemingly acting in good faith and committed no malicious or criminal act.
@nprofile…93wg made this exact point to @nprofile…pdpl just a few years ago so, by their own standards, they deserve to be held to account.

2026-07-31 12:32:43 UTC

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Definitely. Trust don’t verify is way more convenient.

2026-07-28 18:44:36 UTC

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I find it worse on YouTube. Stock footage over an audio track.

2026-07-24 17:34:16 UTC

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The Earth travels 2.5 million kilometres through space every day. 🤯 And you complain about your 20 minute commute… Now you know.

2026-07-24 09:00:56 UTC

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Ha! I think the attempt to conceal it with the twisted sheet made it worse.

2026-07-24 06:38:39 UTC

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Which service are you using?

2026-07-11 08:23:00 UTC

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Ha…..And they never show any sense of pride or achievement when a task, they told me would take 3-4 days, is completed in a 25 minute one-shotter.

2026-07-08 15:57:27 UTC

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🙄

2026-07-08 13:46:34 UTC

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Ha. Love it. That’s also a nice way to buy non custodial bitcoin.

2026-07-08 10:03:24 UTC

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Struggling to make fiat payments is mine. Took me 5 attempts to pay my gas bill today, after finally getting the permissions and authorisations correct.

2026-07-07 21:41:26 UTC

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Nice. I'll check this out, thanks.

2026-07-07 16:05:14 UTC

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I can’t zap you for some reason.

2026-07-07 16:00:57 UTC

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Cool thanks. I’ll give it a try.

2026-07-07 14:07:06 UTC

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Chat GPT made this as an image I was then gonna give to Claude. That’s worked for me well over the last couple of months.
I then let Claude just do its own design, and that was just terrible.

2026-07-07 10:32:58 UTC

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Yes. Just running my own blossom server to share stuff on nostr.

2026-07-07 10:29:34 UTC

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I'd been on a good run for the last couple of weeks. Its very very bad today though.

2026-07-07 10:22:39 UTC

Does anyone else have days where Ai is just terrible across the board, especially design? What is also strange is Claude and ChatGPT often underperform at the exact same time.
I honestly think these companies are doing all sorts of wild west shenanigans behind the scenes.
Asked for a website redesign:
https://blossom.firstmanphotography.com/9c3bf34bcd1f9a8e9fb2fa690b2711253414325f6921b5baecb878bb7adcedbd.png

2026-07-07 07:17:16 UTC

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Congrats. Keep it up. 👍

2026-07-07 07:15:29 UTC

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It was cute watching you all hype yourselves up to a point of thinking you might win it. 🤣
It’s coming home this year. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

2026-06-23 08:42:15 UTC

For the last few days Opus 4.8 has one-shotted absolutely everything, Fable style.
Today it’s incapable of the most simple task and building complete junk.
Token cost, models, and the economics of these frontier Ai companies are a compete fiction.

2026-06-21 11:23:49 UTC

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Nice thanks.

2026-06-21 09:36:14 UTC

Does anyone have knowledge of the photography experience of a Google Pixel 10 running Graphene OS?
What do i lose, if anything? Portrait mode etc.
#asknostr

2026-06-19 21:09:13 UTC

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One interesting fact about the UK gun sitch…….getting a gun is not that hard, there’s loads of them. But there’s fuck all ammunition.
Because of that, literally no one can shoot straight; there is no opportunity to practice.

2026-06-17 22:18:40 UTC

It’s coming home. ⚽️

2026-06-15 14:06:18 UTC

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Absolute shithole. You definitely shouldn't come.
https://blossom.firstmanphotography.com/53312ad5a6911145604469f96b4037ae64c182cc235c1032d2700d08810d44a1.jpeg

2026-06-15 14:02:25 UTC

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When I was thinking about Nostr adoption the other day, I came to the conclusion there basically won’t be any until young people start using it.
And here we are. I hope we’re ready for it if they come now.

2026-06-13 10:03:33 UTC

One interesting aspect of the Fable 5 marketing psyop -
When the people are given access to powerful tools, 99% just start building cool shit that will benefit ourselves and humanity.
I guess that’s why the 1% need to try and stop us.
Good time to get out on the hill and enjoy the weekend in nature. I bet it will be back by Monday.
https://blossom.firstmanphotography.com/5cb4a3ba3efc39ff876b4589b9f2f1e2d9ba2492f1530c882040e5daa871e666.jpeg

2026-06-12 21:22:09 UTC

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Since I was young I have taken Tolkien’s guidance on this matter with Bilbo’s treatment of Gollum.
One thing is for certain, it’s rare straightforward.

2026-06-10 16:34:06 UTC

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Correction - Anthropic says it costs 2x Opus 4.8.
So that’s what they price it at.

2026-06-10 16:25:06 UTC

9.00am - Excited by new Ai model
9.10 - New model running on VM
9.25 - Thrilled with new performance.
9.31 - The future is here!!
9.45 - I’m gonna build everything
9.51 - Getting kind of used to this now.
9.54 - I wish it was more intelligent.
10.01am - MORE POWER. I NEED MORE POWERRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

2026-06-10 10:37:47 UTC

The UK is a peaceful and beautiful place. Do not fall victim to the propaganda of politics, news and corporate social media algorithms that will try to convince you otherwise. Their incentives likely do not align with yours or mine. We are seeing the outcome of this today in NI with masked men setting fire to the homes and property of families.
Violent crime happens everyday in every country in the world. And for context, murder and serious violent crime per capita is way worse in the US than the UK, roughly 6-7 times worse.
Broken money and dreadful energy policy has run the UK economy into the ground over the last 25 years. Everything else is downstream of this including levels of violent crime, morality, immigration, politics and dystopian authoritarianism. If you are scared or angry, focus attention on the solution and do not lose your mind over the symptoms.
Fix the money, fix the world.
https://blossom.firstmanphotography.com/4be9d16f2b4371f0d5c2256afe1d21676846ec28e5b8310d40dd3085efef021b.jpeg

2026-06-08 07:56:26 UTC

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Lol. Calling a technology stupid is really stupid.

2026-06-08 05:47:00 UTC

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True.
I reckon the best idea is the one Wurz came up with, and mentioned in the article you shared. Essentially, building out further over the sea to make the chicane much bigger, to allow a proper attack going in and out of the corners. They could also build out over the sea all the way down and widen the track etc.

2026-06-07 20:38:16 UTC

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Its not though. It would basically follow the normal road out of the tunnel which is one long right hander. The point where they would straighten up (where the arrow is) is where the chicane is now. This would massively increase the danger with lateral G's sending drivers towards the sea. And it's pretty much the spot that Ascari went into the water, I believe in 1955.
https://blossom.firstmanphotography.com/8b7f7d500ccd91bd8f45ee7310bf3542b8ecf4f9889960a21cc94fa9acc0ec2b.jpeg

2026-06-07 19:31:28 UTC

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Yep. Remove it and you have a right hand bend.
You’d basically be removing everything from the speed trap dot in your image, to where turn 11 is marked, and that leaves you with a right hander.

2026-06-07 19:11:25 UTC

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The modus operandi of every virtue signalling - “high fibre”, vegan, morally superior diet promoter I’ve met - is secretly smashing two double cheese burgers at the McDonalds drive thru on the way home. With a side of chicken nuggets.

2026-06-07 18:45:59 UTC

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Maybe dog-leg is the wrong term, but it would definitely be a slight right turn. That’s why cars used to end up in the water to the left.

2026-06-07 17:28:25 UTC

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Yeah. There would still have to be dog-leg right if they removed the chicane though.
Wasn’t it brought in because cars were ending up in the water?

2026-06-07 17:21:41 UTC

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Yep. We’re witnessing the birth of a legend.
A sublime performance in an otherwise ridiculous race that should be (but won’t) scrapped from the calendar.

2026-06-07 11:14:52 UTC

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Yeah. Personal sponsorships will undoubtedly continue, but if everyone was using nostr - the micro payments would become very significant for people creating quality content.
A direct value signal, rather than a clickbaity attention signal.

2026-06-07 07:46:01 UTC

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You’re right, that’s a big one.
If nostr ever gets big, I suspect the marketing people would try to spoil it. Popular apps and big relays would be incentivised to sell advertising space.
But I reckon there would be an immediate switch to other apps and relays in response.
The protocol works for the users. It’s a beautiful thing.

2026-06-07 07:40:38 UTC

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It is funny watching people who felt morally superior being humbled by human nature. In this case - a desire for attention.

2026-06-06 20:54:51 UTC

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Amongst other things - I like being here because there’s no algorithm demanding consistency.

2026-06-05 14:00:49 UTC

Here's a tip i often tell people and nearly always receive blank looks in return....
DON'T SPY ON YOUR KIDS.
Don't track them, monitor them remotely etc - even if they know you're doing it. All you're gonna do is teach them that it's perfectly normal to be surveilled 24/7 and they will never enjoy the freedoms we all had when we were young. They will become less independent people and less equipped to deal with risk.
One of the biggest challenges of parenting is managing your own fears and anxieties as your kids start to go out into the world without you.
I want my kids to be adventurous and wonder, 'what's over the next hill'? Then have the skills to go and find out. And occasionally, what you find is beautiful.
https://blossom.firstmanphotography.com/97988288c59cda85671b49715eaf1eba5c3f490166ba70953b53fc9b615ed64c.jpeg

2026-06-04 12:12:22 UTC

Scenes from a fantasy, in the English Lake District.
#landscapephotography
https://blossom.firstmanphotography.com/9a7b91e85fc03c046256563b671e80b4ab35065de0030c17c9dee2fe85ceeb6c.jpeg

2026-06-03 19:16:16 UTC

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Ahhhh yeah. Beautifully framed. 🤝

2026-06-03 18:49:27 UTC

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Lake District, England.

2026-06-03 18:49:07 UTC

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Lake District.

2026-06-03 15:25:23 UTC

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Cheers dude. 🍻

2026-06-03 15:15:42 UTC

Them - "The UK is a shithole with nothing going for it."
Me - 👇
https://blossom.firstmanphotography.com/2b3769a43eac84ce1da2670c85350d8f713774ceb1166e5dd5a6df626dafdc1f.jpeg

2026-06-03 09:13:39 UTC

We have excellent words. 🤣🤣🤣
https://blossom.firstmanphotography.com/ea2508bcfafe36d437393a4507b99cc1bd30fd3f17afca39cc311e33e143df96.png

2026-06-03 09:08:57 UTC

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Knobhead

2026-06-02 12:30:00 UTC

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Lake District, England.

2026-06-02 10:52:13 UTC

Recent Nostr discourse suggests there's a large number of people here that need to get up the hill and witness a sunrise. Also, the NGU crowd are boring af. Plebs for the win. #landscapephotography
https://blossom.firstmanphotography.com/a3a36fd280458850dfe2091c1c0dd60ed8666956065a47f2cae546a8e429f72e.jpeg

2026-05-20 12:45:13 UTC

Nothing quite like a witnessing a sunset out on the hill.
https://blossom.firstmanphotography.com/53312ad5a6911145604469f96b4037ae64c182cc235c1032d2700d08810d44a1.jpeg

2026-05-15 21:58:06 UTC

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3 pints?
3 little beers is not enough.

2026-05-13 15:12:54 UTC

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The Maldives is what you need. Pure perfection for a honeymoon. Sunsets are decent too!!
Most flights go via Dubai but we found one direct from Gatwick.
https://blossom.firstmanphotography.com/08de1bccd3a939029278168787efc9e43d4f196039a7f7235528dc36f7451d9f.jpeg

2026-05-11 10:48:48 UTC

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I think it’s the nature of democratising technologies.
Pro photographers started crying when digital cameras came to market. Then again with camera phones. And again now with Ai generated images.
The value of technical skills is being destroyed, and if you’ve built a career around that, it’s a tough break.

2026-05-10 12:32:41 UTC

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Thanks. The conditions got even better once we climbed the hill and the sun came up.

2026-05-10 12:24:56 UTC

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*peek.
Spelling mistakes and typos are the new proof of human work.

2026-05-10 09:05:56 UTC

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Stunning. 😍

2026-05-10 09:05:27 UTC

Here to remind you that Ai can't do art.
Plus a little sneak peak of a photograph from my next video.
#photography #landscapephotography
https://blossom.firstmanphotography.com/bc2a0abfd97b51e6264e1a70db5c2b2639f82742fda494a6eef4d63a2ed91f6a.jpeg

2026-05-05 08:54:50 UTC

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Beautiful

2026-04-24 11:12:22 UTC

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I reckon the model it’s says you’re using, and the model you’re actually using are not always the same thing.
One day it’s like a genius. The next day I’m suffering a complete fool.
We’re probably just lab rats in their A/B tests, and we get what we’re given…..being shadow intelligence banned at any given moment.

2026-04-23 15:08:24 UTC

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Ha ha.
“Tether maintains a zero-tolerance policy toward the criminal use of our financial products, including USDT”
They’re even admitting themselves it’s not your USDT.

2026-04-20 11:28:16 UTC

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That spiral....amazing!!