Michael Rung Photography

I hate these posts, but since I do have some X-clusive followers here (har har), I'm posting to pin this on my profile: I'm not planning on being active here anymore. If you want to see my work, you can find me on IG, FB, or Vero... or sign up for my newsletter (linked in bio).

@ChipotleTweets I could have raised a chicken and cooked it myself before I got my order at Rosedale & 8th in Fort Worth... walked out after waiting an hour for my pickup app order.

friendly reminder that u don’t have to cook if u don’t want to 🤭➡️ catering.chipotle.com

@ChipotleTweets you need to fix your Rosedale location in Fort Worth. Waiting an hour for a pickup order is completely unacceptable, yet this store is always a mess. Never going back. And now I get to waste more time calling customer service to get a refund for food I never got.

@thatGregVaughn Also, a couple of the people I enjoy following here - that I don't see elsewhere - appear to have dropped Threads like so many others.

@MRungPhoto How about Threads?

I hate these posts, but since I do have some X-clusive followers here (har har), I'm posting to pin this on my profile: I'm not planning on being active here anymore. If you want to see my work, you can find me on IG, FB, or Vero... or sign up for my newsletter (linked in bio).

@kiers Indeed! I haven't really posted here in almost a month, can't say I've missed it. I'll probably pop in via the iPad app here and there, just hate the desktop experience (and refuse to install it on my phone).

@MRungPhoto Sorry to see you go Michael - glad I'll still catch you on Vero and LPW tho :)

@thatGregVaughn Eh, maybe here and there. I'm just kind of tired of seeing the same posts across 3-4 platforms: consolidating feels like the way to go instead of replacing X w/Threads.

@SMarinoPhoto I've pretty much decided to stop posting here. I rarely saw great engagement anyways, and since I don't have the app installed I'm forced to see all the trending nonsense on the desktop site. Not my cup o' tea!

It is interesting to see how my brain has reacted to the X icon that has replaced the Twitter bird on my phone. I am opening this app waaaaaaay less now that the blue bird has disappeared and it isn’t triggering the same response with my brain. Probably for the better!

@MPLandscapes Nice write up. As much as I whine about living in boring north Texas, it does mean I'm hungry to get out and shoot when I have trips planned, or the local weather finally breaks from the ridiculous summer heat.

New on the blog today mikeprince.org/blog/in-praise…

@alexnail After dealing with inexplicable butchering of my post uploads, on top of all the reasons you listed, I’ve decided to stop posting here. I check in here and there, but don’t really miss it at all.

I will be back here, but for the time being the politics, tribalism, doom mongering and trolling (all of which I am apparently interested in) are getting too much. The rebranding to X also feels gross to me and I can’t put my finger on why.

@bernabephoto I should tattoo this on my forehead. Backwards, so I can read it in the mirror every morning. ;)

Making progress is superior to waiting for perfection…. #Tuesday #inspiration

New blog post just went live... michaelrungphotography.com/post/authentic…

@SeanBagshaw @BrianMatiash <sad trombone>

@BrianMatiash Total 😐. What sound do they make?

Now that it's called X, why are these still "tweets"? And what would they be called instead?

@KaiHornung I hear ya on the strong foregrounds bit. I never really embraced that compositional approach anyways, but they do seem a bit "dime a dozen" these days. Of course, shooting mostly with my 100-400 doesn't really make foregrounds a consideration. 🙃

...such strong foregrounds anymore, because I find them too cliché and have probably just seen too much of that style online to end up being bored. But I always knew at some point I wanted to pick up this image from that night and process it, for the fun of it. Well, here it is.

a million stars (Spain 2019, edit 2023) This image was from the last night I photographed the milky way. It's not that I don't like seeing the milky way, but I knew it could hardly look any better or stronger than I saw it that night. I don't really photograph scenes with ...

imagine if there's light, there's shadow. and vice versa.

@elonmusk why are image uploads being butchered in quality the last 24-48 hours? Same file, totally different result in the original post vs the one I added in the comments. Cut down from 3000 x 2000 to 1200 x 800 pixels. Looks awful when expanded.

Burdened with Beauty (Texas, 2022) - Another one from an amazing morning full of amazing fall colors just 20 minutes from my house. If only Texas falls were always so spectacular!

Well, quality was butchered again upon upload. In theory, it will be correct in this comment share...

@rwongphoto Just looked again, yesterday's post was chopped down to 1200x800.

@rwongphoto It seems it's chopping the dimensions in half - or worse - upon upload. My post from yesterday looks terrible, and if you inspect the code you can see the pixel dimensions are butchered (uploaded at 2000x3000). I reshared it in the comments and it's fine.