John P. Hoke: Random Non-Sequiturs: Most Recent Blog Posts

Long Exposure of Bear Creek Waterfall - White Haven, Pennsylvania

Bear Creek Falls II

January 17, 2020January 18, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Earlier this week someone contacted me on Instagram to purchase this photo I took at Bear Creek Falls in White Haven, Pennsylvania in 2018. While the Instagram image was fine, I did need to adjust it for printing. To be honest, it wasn't one of my favorite shots from this…

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Spiral Staircase Trinity College Library - Dublin Ireland

Photos from the Stairway to Book Heaven

January 16, 2020January 24, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Last fall I took a trip to Dublin, Ireland and spent a day in Book Heaven - Trinity College Library. While there, I visited the Book of Kells exhibit. Unfortunately (but understandably) the library did not allow photography inside the exhibit at all. After spending some time in the exhibit,…

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Virtual House Cleaning

January 16, 2020January 16, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Rejiggering the site (a.k.a. virtual house cleaning 101). Now that I've gone and changed a ton of crap on the website, go the start of an online shop going for my photos, and did it all without pulling out my hair, it is about time that I go through the…

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Long Exposure shot of Bear Creek Falls in the Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania

Bear Creek Falls, Pennsylvania

January 13, 2020January 23, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Going through some shots I took over the past year or so and realizing a few things. Firstly holy hell I took a metric crap-ton of photos, and secondly, I really have progressed a lot in my photography skills. I have always been a good hack, but I am impressed…

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New Year, New Look

January 12, 2020January 12, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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So, first of all, Happy New Year! I took a fairly long break from blogging in 2019 ... it was a hellacious year for me personally and professionally. Lets just leave it at that. I was quite bored with the old theme, the layout, the hassle of keeping it functional,…

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Catching up – Photography

December 18, 2018January 22, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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So, its been a bit crazy work-wise so I haven't had a lot of time to post anything as of late. I did manage to upgrade Wordpress to 5.1 and trying out the new Gutenberg editor as I put this post together. The one thing I've found ways to find…

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London Photography – October 2018

November 7, 2018January 22, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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London Calling? In October I had a business trip over to London to attend the Payment Card Industry Community Meeting as well as a visit to our European HQ offices. While there was a ton of work to do in the ten days I spent there, I did have a number…

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Final Milky Way Image processed through the steps in this tutorial

Milky Way Processing in On1 Photo Raw 2018

September 9, 2018January 22, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Bringing the Milky Way to Life As I've posted previously, I have been intrigued by astrophotography and photographing the Milky Way for a while, but really never took the plunge. A lot of the information on the interwebs make learning this almost cult like... there are secret handshakes, obscure references…

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