Nature and Gardening

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All things green, outdoors, and nature-y. Whether it's animals in their natural habitat, hiking trails and mountains, or planting a little garden for yourself (and everything in between), you can talk about it here.

See also our Environment community, which is focused on weather, climate, climate change, and stuff like that.

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A hawk I saw on my morning walk (oc) (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by RIPSync@reddthat.com to c/greenspace

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[–] blaise@champserver.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually just commented about this on another post, but I'll put it here too:

It's because most phones don't actually rotate the photo, they just add some meta-data that basically says "please rotate X degrees". That data is often either stripped or ignored when posted online. The best way to deal with this is to open the image in an image editor on your phone and rotate it before submitting.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this why people always email me sideways photos too? I’ve wondered how this happened for a long time.

[–] blaise@champserver.net 3 points 1 year ago

Most likely! It takes less time to add that meta-data than it does to actually rotate the image, so most camera apps do that to make the picture-taking experience smoother.