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Dmitri Popov

Personal blog of an amateur airplane photographer, Linux user, and clues coder.

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4mo
The moment I bought my Bambu Lab A1 mini 3D printer, I went looking for photography-related designs I could print. I spent a lot of filament on things that looked promising in theory but quickly ended up in a drawer. However, several accessories have proved useful in my aviation photography pursuits.
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... the ability to back up the contents of the card to an external storage device. I want to be able to plug an SSD directly into my camera's USB-C port and let the camera automatically back up all JPEGs and RAWs. That's it. It's neither a novel nor a technically impossible idea, so how come none of the current...
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When we moved to our new place not far from CNL, I hoped that I'd have occasional opportunities to photograph smaller private airplanes. What I didn't expect at all was to encounter military airlifters at our humble airport. Which explains my cautious optimism when I noticed that the latest NOTAM for CNL contained...
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Every last Sunday of the month, our flight club (now that I'm a paying member, I take particular pride in saying "our") arranges an open house event. My first one back in April as a guest was a slightly muted affair due to the less-than-perfect weather (I did have my very first flight in a Cessna airplane regardless).
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The weather has been suspiciously good (albeit windy) lately, so I spent the last couple of days in CNL. Wednesday was pretty uneventful, and I spent most of it chatting with a fellow flight club member and digging through vintage aviation books (which the club has plenty of).
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Last Friday, for whatever reason (most likely because we never learn), we decided to watch Gladiator II. Familiar with the masterpieces Ridley Scott has been foisting on us for the last two decades, our expectations were low.
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Last time I had a chance to photograph airliners was way back in February in AMS. And although I've been thoroughly enjoying capturing small airplanes in CNL, I did miss proper airports and big machines. So when an opportunity to spend an entire day in AAL presented itself, it was greeted with an enthusiastic Yes,...
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I host my open-source projects on Codeberg. But out of respect for this excellent service, I don't want to clutter it with one-off piles of code and stuff I don't take seriously. Also, I wanted to have my own "incubator" where I let my half-baked code sit until it matures into something usable before I share it on...
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Whenever I'm traveling or photographing airplanes (or both), I use snapshots taken with my smartphone camera as a visual diary of my adventures. Normally, I'd dump them into my photo library and rarely revisit them, which is a shame really. Sure, it's not all champagne and fireworks, but there are many memorable...
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I didn't quit my job per se — we moved to another country with higher living costs, and the company was unable (or unwilling, depending on how you look at it) to give me the required salary increase. It was a relief, really, because pretty much everything in this article resonates with me.
5mo
A lot happened this week aviation-wise. The most important news is that I've become a member of the Sindal Flight Club and its kind-of-official photographer. I spent every day this week — except Monday and Saturday — in the airport, enjoying the relatively good weather, equally good company of the club's members,...
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Ironically, the home-brewed application I use most is also the most neglected one. I’m talking about Tinble, the tiny blog engine that powers this very blog. At long last, I got my act together and spent some time tweaking and improving Tinble. Here’s what I managed to accomplish:

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