These photos were taken on a walk along the west River Lyn in Devon. I was in Devon on a family holiday and we stopped to have some lunch in a local cafe in the middle of the forest. As we sat down a flock of birds emerged from a tree, there were hundreds of them, sweeping and gliding across the sky. The owners of the cafe took full advantage of this, and put breadcrums on each of the wooden fence posts along the waterfront. As a bird descended onto the post, I fumbled around with my camera trying to take a decent photo before they flew off. Luckily I managed to snap a few photos before we hurried back on the walk, but the photos I took still hold up to my most prepared shots.
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Just over a year ago, then CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, sold his first tweet as an NFT for $2.9M. It wasn’t just his first tweet, of course, it was the first tweet, which as auctions go for Crypto- and NFT-heads was about as appealing as a hunk of sourdough to a famished goose. The nearly $3M sale was a welcome green flag to early advocates in the NFT space that the winds of blockchainge (sorry...