Cam Fox @dentalflossbay@qoto.org

Thanksgiving with my in laws was really cool. One topic stands out:

My father-in-law (who hasn’t written a line of code since the 1990s, but spent the 70s-90s doing just that, but I never knew any specifics) was describing a time he had a bug they couldn’t actually figure out the cause of, so he wrote code to overflow the memory space and bypass the bug to return to normal execution. I guess I never saw my FIL as one of those OG hacker types but here we are. The man then goes deeper into the weeds and has a background in memory analysis that I was totally unaware of!
Proceeded to talk about the printed-out hundreds of pages a day of core dumps he manually reviewed in the 1970s and how he was “the core dump guy” at his org back then.
I’ve been his daughter-in-law for 12 years and had NO IDEA about any of this. It was the coolest bonding moment we’ve ever had, as I was talking about my fascination with memory forensics and he was reliving his stories. He spent a few hours this week perusing my copy of The Art of Memory Forensics, and remarked how “it’s neat how it really hadn’t changed, but the scale is just SO MUCH BIGGER” and how damn useful Volatility would have been for him if he’d had the storage space to use it.

It’s been a challenge for me to understand and relate to my FIL (he’s a good guy, but we are very different socially and don’t connect easily). Finding common ground on something like core dump analysis was not on my holiday bingo card but I’ll take it.

I'm thinking a bit about the editorializing that inherently comes with image descriptions and CWs. That's a piece of the system of power that keeps being at issue.

Omg, look at this chunky little cutie—known as a hummingbird fly!

It's a Lasia nigritarsis (Blanchard, 1854) observed in Teodoro Schmidt, Araucanía, Chile.

Photo by Catalina Lagos (CC BY-NC 4.0) shared via iNaturalist.

#Acroceridae #insects #flies #Chile

Lobster Dinner.

During a workshop in the summer, here on the Isle Of Mull, I spotted that the otter we were watching had caught something in the loch, and was swimming towards the shore.

I got my clients into a position where I hoped they'd get some images, and then lay down nearby.

The otter surprised me slightly by climbing ashore right in front of me! Thank goodness for silent cameras.

#otter #lobster #mull #wildlife #guiding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #Scotland

Guys! Look at all these fabulous Orange Ladybirds (Halyzia sedecimguttata) I found on today's lunchtime stroll 🐞😍

#insects #wildlife #ladybirds #nature

Fuck this. This is gonna be full of people pointing to trans accounts and saying they're child safety issues. Elon is a dumb fuck but he definitely knows what he's doing here. Any trans person should probably bail on Twitter asap. And they'll probably come after any cis gays soon after too.

This Snowy egret was perfectly framed by Spanish Moss hanging over the boat canal to Newnans Lake, known for its birds and giant alligators. Last Halloween We stopped here to photograph the full moonrise and there were swarms of twilight Darners along this same canal. In mid-November they are long gone.

Thanks again for all the lovely comments posted on my recent images.

Today's is one of my favourites from over a decade ago, at a site run by Worcestershire Wildlife Trust, and is of a common kingfisher.

We watched this male fishing in the small lake for over an hour. Mostly he preferred diving from posts at the water's edge, but when he flew up into this willow tree, I made sure I got the shot.

#kingfisher #worcestershire #bird #photography #wildlife

A hackberry emperor butterfly (Asterocampa celtis) lapping up the salt from my sweaty finger. #butterfly #butterflies #Lepidoptera #Illinois #nature #photography #macrophotography #wildlifephotography

Pink-laced Emerald (Comostolopsis stillata), seen in Kruger National Park, South Africa, at the end of the dry season.

#moths #kruger #nature #insects

Am I the only person who thought this was a caterpillar at 1st glance?

Firstly, I'd just like to say thank you to all the people who have liked, boosted and commented on my images, and to all the new followers I have. It's rather humbling. 😊

Today's shot comes from a magical day in the Scottish #Highlands, a few years ago, when I was photographing red squirrels.

These charming characters are incredibly agile and can jump great distances between trees.

Here I managed to capture one as it appears to be flying down my lens.

#redsquirrel #scotland #wildlife #fun

I could stare at this Brahmin moth for hours. Specimen in the UT insect collection.

#entomology #moth #insects

Thrilled for the new fancy duck lifers I got today at Arlington Reservoir. Here’s some hooded mergansers.

#birds #birding #BirdsSeenIn2022 #Massachusetts #newengland o#naturephotography #birdmastodon

Halloween Pennant dragonflies (Celithemis eponina) are one of my favorite insects to photograph. Sometimes they allow you photograph them for hours. #dragonfly #dragonflies #Odonata #Illinois #nature #photography #wildlifephotography