Photo Contest Winners and Awards

Golden Trophy Cup

ViewBug Photo Contest Awards Ok, I am not a professional photographer in any way, shape or form … but I am a pretty good hobbyist, and love the creative outlet it gives me. So about six months or so ago, I joined ViewBug on a whim to see how some of my photos would do in a […]

Site Upgrade – WordPress 4.6, Plugins & More

Upgrade: Maintain Speed

Upgrade – Maintain Speed! Installed the WordPress 4.6 upgrade, as well as a couple other changes and tweaks this evening. Firstly, updated the backend to the current version. This caused its share of issues with a couple plugins – so I chased down a few more updates and re-applied further custom tweaks I’ve made to tie a few […]

Budapest St. Stephen Statue – Plotagraph

Saint Stephen at Sunrise

Budapest, St. Stephen Statue – Plotagraph Here’s another Platograph I threw together in under 10 minutes while having my morning coffee. The original image is an HDR shot from my stay in Budapest last year. I did this in the morning before heading out to work and wanted to toss it out there quick 🙂 I […]

Notre Dame Cathedral – Plotagraph

Notre Dame Cathedral – Plotagraph I’m still playing around with my Plotagraph Pro software subscription and learning how to best work with it … here’s a photo from Notre Dame last year that I edited with On1 Photo Suite & the clouds animated via Plotagraph – was a bit tricky due to the fish eye lens – […]

Longwood Gardens – Nightscape

Night Water - Lillies at Longwood Gardens

Longwood Gardens at Night Yesterday was my birthday, and my wife and I spent the night in Philadelphia so that we could attend the Longwood Gardens Nightscape event – a sound and light show using the natural surroundings as a backdrop and canvas put together by Klip Collective. As for the show, it was ok, nothing to rant […]

Lightroom to Instagram Plugin

Push photos from Lightroom to Instagram So for years I’ve had a dormant Instagram account that I rarely used as it was too much work to move photos from Lightroom over to my desktop to sync to my phone to post… it was a royal pain in the ass. A couple of days ago, I stumbled […]