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insta annoying

19 Tuesday Mar 2024

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I don’t know what’s going on with Instagram. At first I thought it was my new iphone camera making things go wonky as it has a macro lens and other schmancy stuff. But then I realised things were only going wonky on Instagram. I used to always upload pics on Insta and do a bit of editing and that was fine, until recently. Suddenly the colours etc were coming out all wrong, and once uploaded not at all how they’d looked after I’d edited them. So then I tried not editing them at all… same problem.

And when I checked them against other platforms (twitter, bluesky, wordpress) as you can see, the pics on the left are normal, But as soon as they go up on Instagram they get all washed out, over exposed, over saturated. Anyone else having this problem?

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cheeky

21 Friday Jul 2023

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Got a bit sidetracked on my way to see the Procesión Fluvial of the Virgen del Carmen… by these guys! I mean. They were just asking for it standing outside the FIVE STAR Hotel Mélia Colón at the end of my street. Later I posted it on Twitter and pal Sarah did a great take on this, making it timeless…

tbt sangria dress

08 Thursday Oct 2020

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Look at how pretty I used to be. I say this without vanity, more with a bit of wistful sadness because I didn’t even know I was pretty back then. And this was just 20 years ago, aged 43… pics of me at age 20-25 or so make me even sadder.  Because it kind of feels like an “opportunity lost” that I spent so much of my life hating on how I looked, never feeling I was pretty enough, always feeling FAT. But you see, I looked just fine! And man, I would kill to have that jawline back again 😉

patreon

03 Friday Jul 2020

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So I am giving Patreon a try. As I have mentioned here before I’ve had friends who have very generously sent me donations since lockdown. But sometimes it’s awkward for them to ask, and also to receive. I’ve also had a couple of people I don’t know at all, but who have been following my various blogs about Sevilla and Spain, and wanted to send me something in appreciation for all the work I’ve put into them. Which of course is lovely and very much appreciated.

And then I heard about Patreon. Now there are several ways to offer up your creativity here. Some offer services, some online classes, others access to otherwise private online content. And others, I have seen, just promise to keep their content free and accessible to all. I’m in that last category. I mean, I always would anyhow, but it has occurred to me that maybe people like it enough that they may want to sponsor me. This is my page…

Patreon / Azahar Sevilla

I’m still working my way around how this works. I know there’s a fee (8% of whatever I receive) as well as handling fees for receiving money (same as Paypal charges, 3.4% + 0.35€ per transaction), then of course taxes. Anyhow, this is for monthly patrons, which is what their infrastructure is set up for. For one-off or occasional donations it still seems like Paypal is the best option.

So I thought I could just put this out there and see what happens. It’s still early days, so we’ll see how it goes. They asked me to write something about what I was doing/offering so I will copy and paste it below here. Let me know what you think.

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