Red Admiral

Red Admiral (Vanessa atlanta), St Werburghs, Bristol, July 2025
Red Admiral (Vanessa atlanta), St Werburghs, Bristol, July 2025

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Dry spring and summer

a good year for butterflies

uplifting beauty

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by Scooj

Sea view

Gull, sea view, Eastbourne, East Sussex, July 2025

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Hogging the limelight

a gull gatecrashes the view

English Channel coast

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by Scooj

To Eastbourne

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Cutting through the chalk

amidst green and pleasant land

South Downs rolling by

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by Scooj

Bulrush

Bulrush (Typhus latifolia), Risley Moss, Cheshire, July 2025

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On wetted peatland

rising high, unwavering

the bulrush is king

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by Scooj

Heat

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London in the heat

utterly overwhelming

the melting tarmac

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by Scooj

Small magpie

Small magpie (Anania hortulata), Redland, Bristol, July 2025
Small magpie (Anania hortulata), Redland, Bristol, July 2025

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Delicate shimmer

betrays any concealment

stay still, stay alive

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by Scooj

Witness

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Calm court surroundings

much slower than on TV

my contribution

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by Scooj

Here comes the sun… again

Forecast, Redland, Bristol, July 2025
Forecast, Redland, Bristol, July 2025

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Expectation raised

barbecue summer ahead

liberating sun

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by Scooj

Aggregation

Cinnabar caterpillars, Brunel Way, Bristol, July 2025
Cinnabar caterpillars, Brunel Way, Bristol, July 2025

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An eating machine

cinnabar caterpillars

fine dining ragwort

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by Scooj

ChatGPT, a haiku

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First words from the screen

AI shapes thoughts into verse

new paths softly bloom

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by ChatGPT

  • I had to do a training package today about using AI for communications, and thought I’d have a little practice session on ChatGPT. This was the instruction I gave:

“Write me a haiku about using AI for the first time to write the haiku”

Having done the training, it only reinforces my scepticism about AI, but I do see how it might be helpful in the right circumstances. Unfortunately, I think that it is so open to misuse, deliberately or accidentally, and I fear in these early days a lot of people and organisations will get their knickers in a twist and fall foul of what is really the Wild West out there.

The seduction of new technology is powerful, and the early adopters get super-excited. It is important that there are others who ground truth these novel opportunities and maintain some level of human experience, skill and knowledge. I feel that AI should be used when it is needed rather than because it is there.