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You might have noticed a slow down on my uploads lately. Not because I've been slacking off, in fact I'm happy to say I've been more active than ever taking photos in Maryland and the Washington DC area I like to call my new home 
An ever-growing collection I am itching to share, but tempered with a passionate desire to find a long term career doing what I love most. With a preference towards local organizations to help with things like tourism, education, charity or preservation in the hopes of making a more meaningful difference beyond pure decoration.
Unfortunately some official organizations might get the wrong impression when I refer them to my gallery on dA as portfolio material if only for the "deviant" in deviantART, so I feel like I have to focus my energy in other mainstream channels. A real shame for all the time & effort I put in over the years, and I am always incredibly grateful for the overwhelming support you have given me. I still plan to stick around here for the long haul and upload when time permits, just more a victim of circumstance right now as I soul search for my ideal job.
On sidenote let me know if you're on flickr, I'd love to add you
Nick
An ever-growing collection I am itching to share, but tempered with a passionate desire to find a long term career doing what I love most. With a preference towards local organizations to help with things like tourism, education, charity or preservation in the hopes of making a more meaningful difference beyond pure decoration. Unfortunately some official organizations might get the wrong impression when I refer them to my gallery on dA as portfolio material if only for the "deviant" in deviantART, so I feel like I have to focus my energy in other mainstream channels. A real shame for all the time & effort I put in over the years, and I am always incredibly grateful for the overwhelming support you have given me. I still plan to stick around here for the long haul and upload when time permits, just more a victim of circumstance right now as I soul search for my ideal job.
On sidenote let me know if you're on flickr, I'd love to add you
Nick
The Voynich Manuscript and Nostradamus Connection
I have good reason to believe that Michel de Nostredame - aka Nostradamus - was personally connected with the Voynich Manuscript. Before I begin, I would like to acknowledge this theory goes against conventional wisdom. The radiocarbon dating of the manuscript's vellum places it between 1404 and 1438, and Nostradamus lived between 1503 and 1566. I am well aware of the apparent discrepancies. I do not necessarily challenge the validity of the radiocarbon dating for that matter. To the best of my knowledge, the radiocarbon dating was done on the vellum. That does not otherwise prove the age of the ink applied to the vellum, and by extension, when the Voynich Manuscript was actually written (except perhaps that it was some time after the radiocarbon dating of the vellum circa 1404-1438). Nothing at face value excludes the possibility that the vellum was recycled or left as blank pages for over a hundred years. I am basically keeping an open mind, and I invite you to do the same if we can
Heads Up
Soon I will be posting a journal which might appear strange to you. It pertains to personal research I've been doing into the Voynich Manuscript, and how I believe Nostradamus is connected with it. This upcoming journal is basically a transcript of my research paper. It is primarily meant for documentation purposes so I can leave my imprint of it across multiple online sources. Realizing it is more academic in nature, which might not attract much interest here on Deviant Art. But I suppose it still counts as literature, and who knows, it might inspire others to become more curious about the Voynich Manuscript 🧐 Feel free to comment (or not), but now that my research paper is finally published, I plan to take a break and crawl back out of this Voynich rabbit hole for a bit... perhaps refocus on my photography again 🙂 (plus a lot of other stuff to catch up, including sleep)
My Interview with Shoutout Colorado
For anyone interested in reading more about me, feel free to check this interview I had with Shoutout Colorado: https://shoutoutcolorado.com/meet-nicolas-raymond-photographer-visual-artist/
Google Bard and Plant Identification
As you might know, I like experimenting with AI. Starting out with image generation, even though I am less interested about that now in favor of revisiting my photography (and a growing obsession with deciphering the Voynich Manuscript I will not elaborate upon any further in this journal). I am however still using AI in other ways. For example, I am using Google Bard to help plan my photo trips as it can return maps, and pins dropped on that map to reveal places of interest I asked for in the first place (like waterfalls and historic landmarks). I've noticed Google Bard can also help to identify things like plants if you attach an image within your query. And that's what it tried to do right here, from a photo I captured in the Western Colorado Botanical Gardens in Grand Junction: Worth noting, I submitted this photo a few months ago on iNaturalist, hoping that another human could help me identify it. No luck there as far as I know, but I was drawn to this image, and wanted to
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