DirtyGlassEye has added a photo to the pool:

It would appear my #1 nemesis in general is an overexposed white sky, and not every bracket is able to outdo that. You can see how rough the processing was on the higher trees. They aren't necessarily the subject of the shot anyways but its still annoying. Even a clarity fix didn't soften the blow.
The true meat of this image though is the lower half. The stone steps, the bush, lower sakura, and best of all the wood and the bridge. And while yes, this pathway was closed off it not only provided a unique perspective but also kept people out of my frame. Double win for the price of having a terrible sky (again).
So as stated earlier, editing couldn't fix much of the already obvious problems. But I decided to roll ahead anyways and give this photo the chance it probably deserved. Kitano Tenmangu was a very mixed bag photo wise and this post describes the struggles pretty well. Whether it be people, the sky, finding better places, etc. It just proved more difficult. Great perks and some pretty bad drawbacks.

Kazu_1 has added a photo to the pool:

Kazu_1 has added a photo to the pool:

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Eiki Wang has added a photo to the pool:

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An analysis of submissions to next year's International Conference on Learning Representations has found that roughly one in five peer reviews were fully generated by AI, a discovery that came after researchers including Carnegie Mellon's Graham Neubig grew suspicious of feedback on their manuscripts that seemed unusually verbose and requested non-standard statistical analyses.

Neubig posted on X offering a reward for anyone who could scan the conference's submissions for AI-generated text, and Max Spero, CEO of detection tool developer Pangram Labs, responded the next day. Pangram screened all 19,490 studies and 75,800 peer reviews submitted to ICLR 2026, finding that 21% of reviews were fully AI-generated and more than half showed signs of AI use. The conference had permitted AI tools for polishing text but prohibited falsified content. Each reviewer was assigned five papers to review in two weeks on average -- a load that senior programme chair Bharath Hariharan described as "much higher than what has been done in the past."

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