I’ve passed FRA quite a few times now but until this trip my 300mm lens was always in the checked baggage.
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[Photo Journal Spotlight] Experimental Photos of the Eiffel Tower and Its Flickering
… of various levels of sophistication. Thanks to other tourists on the evenings of 5 and 6 June 2026 for letting me stay longer than average on the axis of symmetry.


THE FOLLOWING PHOTOS ARE NOT AVAILABLE UNDER THE FWPHYS SITE-WIDE LICENSE
Photographie © 2026 FWPhys · LUX. Partagée à des fins non commerciales. Les illuminations nocturnes de la Tour Eiffel sont une œuvre protégée (© SETE).
Photograph © 2026 FWPhys · LUX. Shared for non-commercial purposes. The Eiffel Tower’s nighttime illuminations are a protected work (© SETE).










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Rainy Road Found Prose – 15
(Well muddy is a kind of rainy-adjacent condition; and it’s not a poem but a prose this time.)
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Back in the Funfactory
On the occasion that I am turning 28, I look back at the chapter of my life when I was a player and modder of games by Synetic: The Funfactory, a small German studio that, without meaning to, taught me to be a designer of cars, a scientist, and, somehow, a resident of Germany.
(Cover screenshot: a modded “Excellence” / [unlicensed Aston Martin Vanquish with a Jaguar face] in front of the alpine observatory in Crash Time 5: Undercover. Taken in 2016)
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An Illusory Human Common Sense
I condemn in the strongest terms the recent heinous act where an IDF Soldier fired into a tent classroom in a refugee camp, killing Ritaj Abdul Raouf Rihan (9). Another crime against humanity in occupied Palestine in the long conflict committed by the Zionist regime.
My friends at Researcher 4 Palestine are working hard as part of the international effort to restore the educational system in Gaza. You can read more about that here.
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