Windows command line shenanigans

Which photos were taken on which day? The dates are in the image metadata.

(for /f %G in ('dir /b DSC*') do @(C:\cygwin64\bin\echo.exe -n %G & (java -cp somepath\compositor\classes\ net.sf.compositor.util.ExifReader %G  | grep -Fi "Date/time original"))) | sed -Ee "s/Date\/time original://"

There is a Cygwin EXIF reader, which would have simplified this a bit.

Press photo exhibition

I enjoyed some of the pictures from a press photography exhibition. I'd be pleased if I had taken the first one (with the moon) and the last one (with the cow) but I'd have been dead chuffed if I'd taken the one with the pig. That one made me laugh.

Magnolia

Magnolia blossom arrives early in the spring before a lot of other plants have woken up. The blooms seem too big for the tree and they soon lose their freshness, turn brown at the edges and start to fall. But for a few days they are a confident and beautiful reassurance that the winter is over.

Click to embiggen.

As a paint colour, Magnolia is off-white, but the blossom is always pink-tinged to some degree. I think that the paint is doing the plant a disservice.

Edit: Magnolia facts! It evolved before bees, and the large flowers are to encourage beetles for pollination. You can eat some kinds of Magnolia (don't do this on my say-so). It's named after a French botanist with a *huge* wig, Pierre Magnol.