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Back in March, I posted about how the era of my Mac Pro desktop came to an end with the purchase of a Mac Studio and Studio Display. With a good 3 months of use under my belt, I thought I'd collect some of what I've experienced in an update post. However, I am quite...
Last December, I made a post about how I often use my iPhone as a sketchpad for ideas, often sharing them to Instagram. I usually encounter two main issues when developing something on my phone. The first being many apps on my phone don't have corresponding desktop...
The title of this post, for those not familiar, is from the Talking Head's 1981 song "Once in a Lifetime." A song NPR listed as one of the 100 most important musical works of the 20th Century. A song some interpret as a commentary upon the excesses and absurdity of...
Well, I made it to Month #2 of my month-end summaries. If you came here wondering what is a Monthly Leaf Pile, it is something I just recently started in April 2020 to look back on various happenings throughout the month. It is a way to reflect upon and also reveal...
I am going through a lot of my photo archive during this crazy pandemic AND finally getting around to spending some time with some tools I previously invested in. I have had Topaz Labs plugins for a long time. In general, they have always seemed like a pretty good...
This month I start a series of month-end summary posts about the goings-on around my site and my photography work. I stole this idea (with permission) from Alexander Kunz who has for a long time published a series of monthly "End Notes" in a similar fashion. It is...
I have a quite a few images in my archives that have been just sitting around collecting dust for awhile until I spend some time and figure out "what they want to be" as I wrote in my last post. That process is often quite similar to a walk in the woods with no...
I spent some time photographing this morning pretty close to home, about as close as I can get actually - our front yard. My wife Lisa has done an amazing job with flowers around our house, and I often take advantage of having a lot of great subjects around. Today...
I came across an interesting discovery yesterday. I have been wanting to make a streamlined method for creating JPEGs for submissions for stock using Lightroom. Normally I would open the image (either RAW or a PSD edited file) in Photoshop, convert to 8 bit, Adobe...