Trifecta’s Morning Star

My Star A photo of my Golden Retriever, Trifecta‘s Morning Star – who was kind enough to be a crash test dummy for some work I am doing on a preset in onOne photo suite. She is the best damn Golden in the world – and yes I am completely partial and the vote was rigged. […]

Barcelona Cherubs

Barcelona Fountain Cherubs

Barcelona Fountain Cherubs An image from a trip to Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain earlier in 2015 while in the city for business. The walk from the office to my hotel was through La Rambla and I passed these cherubs two or three times – each time the lighting was fubar or there were too many people sitting in […]

Pont Alexandre III – Paris

Pont Alexandre III Bridge - Paris

Pont Alexandre III A photo of Pont Alexandre was taken in Paris back in 2013 while traveling with my wife on a business trip. We were walking around the city along La Seine in the afternoon and I took a bunch of photos with my older Nikon D7000. I found a SD card this week in […]

Summer Business Travel

Paris Eiffel Tower

So it appears that I will be heading back to Europe this summer for work … currently on the itinerary: London area, Paris, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Budapest, Oslo – that’s for starters … While I am not loving the idea of traveling over the summer – it takes time away from one of my favorite hobbies/mental […]

Photos in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania

Jim Thorpe Train Station, Jim Thorpe Pennsylvania. ©2015 John P. Hoke

Photographs: Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania Part of the “joys” in moving a blog from one site and application to another is going through the photos and playing with them, and reposting some. Here are four I took a couple years ago and retweaked in onOne PhotoSuite and Lightroom. These were all taken in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, about […]

Mom, Dad and Baby Me

Mother, Father, and a baby me

Mother, Father and Baby Me makes three Happy Mother’s Day Mom! I don’t have a lot of photos of my mother, let alone my mother and father and I together. My mother passed away in June 1979 of Familial Polyposis, a genetic form of colon cancer at the age of 32, when I was just about to […]

Photoblog Reboot

After a bunch of issues with old themes and aggravation factors, I’ve rebooted my photoblog. The next few weeks will be hell interesting trying to get everything ported over, tweaked and the way I want it… but in the mean time. .